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This 3 page paper argues that Steinbeck's purpose in writing "The Grapes of Wrath" was to illustrate the way in which management exploits labor, and he did it by creating a protagonist (Tom Joad) who changed from a disinterested person to a man committed to organizing labor. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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speak to the experience of thousands of poor people who left the Dust Bowl to try and make a life in California, only to find it was impossible to do
so. Discussion The Joad family seems to have more than its share of bad luck, even though life was hard for everyone at that time. But they lose both grandparents
and a friend before they even get to California. The protagonist, Tom Joad, is released from prison and goes home to Oklahoma, only to find his family already on the
road to California (Steinbeck, 1997). The journey is difficult but the Joads, like most people, consider California the "promised land" and think that if they can only get there, everything
will be fine. Unfortunately, everything isnt fine, because California doesnt have enough jobs for all the migrants pouring in. The Joad and others end up living in migrant camps, which
were squalid and overcrowded, full of angry, hopeless people (Steinbeck, 1997). The locals disliked the migrants, whom they called "Okies" since they came from Oklahoma (Steinbeck, 1997); the name stuck
and is still sometimes used today. As the number of migrants coming into California surged and the camps filled, unrest increased, as might be expected. Also as might expected, because
people were desperate for jobs, the owners and those who hired the migrants paid them pennies; as Steinbeck says: "They were hungry, and they were fierce. And they had hoped
to find a home, and found only hatred. Okies-the owners hated them because the owners knew they were soft and the Okies strong, that they were fed and the Okies
hungry; and perhaps the owners had heard from their grandfathers how easy it is to steal land from a soft man if you are strong and hungry and armed" (Steinbeck,
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