STEINBECK/GRAPES OF WRATH (BC)
Muncie , IN : Ball State University Steinbeck Research Institute , 1990 . Heavilin , Barbara A. , ed . The Critical Response to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press , 2000 . John Steinbeck's The Grapes ...
Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, this novel tells the story of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land.
Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece.
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece.
As Don DeLillo has claimed, Steinbeck “shaped a geography of conscience” with this novel where “there is something at stake in every sentence.” Beyond that—for emotional urgency, evocative power, sustained impact, prophetic reach, ...
An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES...
Essays discuss this novel's place in American literature, look at different interpretations, and analyze Steinbeck's style
“Battle-Hymn of the Republic” in Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, ed. Geoffrey O'Brien, (New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004). (445) 13 Steinbeck made the comparison between Jim Casy and Jesus Christ easy for the ...
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of...
"Traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers."--Amazon.com.
Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the novel, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
This unit has been designed to develop students' reading, writing, thinking, and language skills through exercises and activities related to The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Depicts the hardships and suffering enduring by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression
This is an Upper Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures.
. . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said- 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'
A novel concerning the plight of the Okies - the refugee farmers and sharecroppers fleeing the dustbowl of Oklahoma. Attracted by the golden promise of California, they meet only with abject hostility, shame and destitution.
The Grapes of Wrath is the brilliantly written story depicting the life of Americans during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s when Oklahoma farmers were forced off the land they had farmed for generations and they moved to California for the ...
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath tells the specific story of the Joad family, and thus illustrates the hardships and oppression suffered by migrant laborers during the Great Depression.