Graves says the banks have evicted all the farmers. Disconcerted and confused, Tom and Casy meet an old neighbor, Muley Graves, who says the family is at Uncle John Joad's home nearby. Arriving at Tom's childhood farm home, they find it deserted. While hitchhiking to his home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Tom meets former preacher Jim Casy, whom he remembers from his childhood, and the two travel together. The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison, where he had been incarcerated after being convicted of homicide in self-defense. A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940. The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other " Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. The book won the National Book Award Īnd Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. Rose of Sharon, one of Tom’s sisters who recently delivered a stillborn baby, lets the man drink milk from her breast.The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. There, they meet a boy sitting beside his starving father who needs milk to live. Rainstorms then cause the Joad’s new home in a box car to be flooded. Before this, he tells his mother that he will now become an activist and fighter for the rights of the migrants. When his identity as the officer’s killer is accidentally exposed Tom is forced to leave the family permanently. The Joads escape from the ranch and find new work picking cotton while Tom hides nearby. When an officer hits and kills Casy, Tom responds by killing his assailant. When Tom goes to see the protestors, he meets Casy again who reveals that they are striking over wage cuts. They end up as strike-breakers on a peach farm with protesters outside and with pitiful pay and conditions. However, the Joads must move due to lack of work. The camp even has a Saturday night dance, which agents of the landowners try to disrupt, causing a riot and giving the police an excuse to destroy the camp. Conditions there are better, with running water and protection from the police. The family then moves to a government camp.
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