The three most important aspects of The Grapes of Wrath: Major Symbols: turtle crossing the road vacant houses Ma Joad the truck The Grapes of Wrath takes place during America’s Great Depression, which lasted from the Stock Market Crash of October 1929 until World War II began 12 years later. During this time, a long period of drought and high winds affected large parts of the American Midwest, including much of the state of Oklahoma, creating what was called the Dust Bowl. Tom Joad is the protagonist, or main character, of The Grapes of Wrath.Many of the people in the lower Midwest moved elsewhere, hoping to find fertile land on which to make a living.
Tom is the book’s hero as well despite the fact that Tom attacks a policeman at one point in the novel and beats a man at another point, becoming a cave-dwelling fugitive as a result. The most famous image in The Grapes of Wrath is the novel’s final one, in which Rose of Sharon Joad, whose baby was recently stillborn, breast-feeds a sickly, starving man on the floor of an old barn.Tom’s actions, although illegal according to the letter of the law, are morally just.
In this image, Steinbeck powerfully dramatizes the desperate plight of Depression-era migrant workers, whom the author felt had been abandoned by society.An American judge intervening in a long-simmering feud has ruled that the rights to John Steinbeck’s most famous novels - including The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men - should be seized from his publisher and handed to his descendants. In a case that could have significant consequences for families of artists who fought for creative control, New York judge Richard Owen ruled that Penguin Books must forfeit the copyright of 10 of Steinbeck’s works, even though the novelist had signed the rights away in 1938. The court battle pitched the novelist’s granddaughter, Blake Smyle, and his son Thomas Steinbeck against Penguin Books and Paramount Pictures. Thomas Steinbeck had alleged that he was the victim of “a 30-year conspiracy to deprive John Steinbeck’s blood heirs”. The judge argued that American copyright law acknowledges the reality that young authors could not know in advance “the high stature they would attain” and that it was therefore fair to allow them or their descendants to renegotiate copyright agreements. He based his decision in part on a law passed in 1998 after the death of the singer and American congressmen Sonny Bono, which gives added powers to the descendants of original creators. "My clients’ primary concern here is to protect and preserve the legacy of John Steinbeck,” the lawyer for the family, Mark Lee, told reporters. “They are gratified that the judge recognised the correctness of their position."Įven assuming the ruling survives any appeal, it would not take immediate effect.
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