Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Grapes of Wrath Steinbecks purpose. It needs to be at least 1500 words.Download file to see previous pages... The background of John Steinbeck, as

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Grapes of Wrath Steinbecks purpose. It needs to be at least 1500 words.

The background of John Steinbeck, as well as his former writings, makes him an experienced authority in tackling the chronicle of events in The Grapes of Wrath. This is evident in the way he recounts the story of Joads, the situations that led to their being dispossessed of their only hope and cast to wander in California during the great depression (Zirakzadeh 599). Moreover, a great portion of his young adult life was spent working as a ranch hand in California Salinas’s valley. Here, he gained considerable knowledge regarding lives of migrant laborers in the farms (Zirakzadeh 601). He was, therefore, aware of the social inequalities affecting the labour force (Garcia 86). He had earlier written another novel titled In Dubious Battle in which he imprinted his reputation and authority as a social critic and an advocate of the migrant worker. Moreover, the San Francisco news recognized him as a social commentator and contracted him to write a series of articles on the life of migrant workers in California central valley camps (Sobchack 599). Given this background and experience with migrant issues, Steinbeck had incomparable experience and authority to write The Grapes of Wrath, which is based on the lives of migrant population. In this novel, Steinbeck speaks on behalf of the dispossessed persons who went to settle in California. He vividly records their plight, especially the way the society was quickly entrenching capitalistic ideals and forgetting about them. He tried to placate the dominant idea of capitalism as evident when he wrote, “This is the beginning—from “I” to “we”. If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results… you might survive” (p.158). Here, the author foresees the death of individualism. However, this is a self assuaging ideology given that the socialist ideals were inevitably falling. Even so, the idea was to let the society realize that it was unjust to ignore fellow human beings. Steinbeck is pessimistic of the “I” ideals which can not let rich know the difference between the causes and the results of their deeds. At one point, he laments “.., But that you cannot know” (p.158), and he quickly justifies that“… the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”, and cuts you off forever from the “we”” (p.158). Although this dream was not probably attained, the writer managed to drive his point home. His stance stamped his authority regarding the plight of California emigrants. The Grapes of Wrath is based on the historical and social events of 1930s in America, especially the environmental disaster that struck in1935. Before the 1930s decade, there were severe droughts in the Great Plains region of the United States. In 1929, there had been a market crash followed by a decline in the US economy. This decline made banks desperate. They started looking for ways of recovering losses (Zirakzadeh 598). The companies that held small lands started to merge into corporations and removed families from their farms. As a result, the uneducated and inexperienced people were cast into unemployment, armed with agrarian skills only. About half a million people moved to California where they were labeled Okies.