Grapes of Wrath

The movie Grapes of Wrath is a film about a family that is affected in a very bad way by the Great Depression. The family is forced to leave their Oklahoma farm because they were stuck right in the middle of the Dust Bowl, The Dust Bowl was a drought that made it almost impossible for farmers to harvest there crop making every sharecropper set off for work, which was very hard to get. Tom Joad who was an ex- convict came home to a house that was being evicted do to the money shortage the Dust Bowl caused the family. It wasn’t long after Tom along with his family started to head west to look for work. The Joad family firmly believed that if they reached California they would find stable jobs and a home to live in, but what they didn’t know hundred of thousand of family’s were headed the same direction also looking for jobs to satisfy their needs. It wasn’t long after they set off for California Grandpa Joad dies which signals the start to the difficult passage they will have to endure to the west. After pulling over and burying him in the ground the Joad family parked their car at a camp where they meet a man that recently came back from California. The man thinks that Pa’s good thoughts about finding a better way of life are far from believable, the man tells the Joads about his failed trip to the west and how there was work. These remarks by the man would not stop the family from continuing their journey. The family continues to the border of Arizona where they are almost turned back but got through to the barren desert of California. Grandma was very close to death and ma was the only one that knew it. Ma decided not to tell the family of grandma’s death so they would get through California’s barren land saftley and didn’t want to danger the family. Ma told the family of Grandma’s death when they made it through the desert of