I think there are many reasons as of why we still read this book, so this blog is obviously going to contain all of those reasons so prepare yourself I know you are going to need it. It shows people what it's like to live back in the thirties back when technology was not like it is today and it also talks about the great depression and the dust bowl. Adding two and two together is just a scaring thought for the society that we live in today I don't think must of us would even know how to live.
The thirties was a different time than today. The music was definitely different (but I love the music from the early nineteen hundreds. It's so good.), there was no television. Maybe if you wanted to watch something you could see a live show like a play or something. People didn't have ipods or cell phones. If they wanted something portable to entertain them; A BOOK. I mean people still read today, obviously, but you see where I'm going with this. There was no air conditioning on a hot summer day. I would hate that. All this stuff we take for granted, they didn't have back then. It was much harder living circumstances. I have so much respect for people who lived back then because it isn't something that I would be able to do, I don't think.
Then there is there is the great depression and dust bowl. These extreme conditions changed everything. The living conditions were just horrid. We complain to our parents if we can't borrow some money off of them whenever we go out with our friends to eat or something. Imagine these people who don't even know when the next time they'll be able to eat it! It's no wonder we still read this book. It shows so much. There was so much going on at this time. It teaches us how it was like for people back then and than compared to now.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
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