1.+Author's+Purpose

**PURPOSE OF ENTIRE WORK** John Steinbeck clearly had various motives for creating his work, //The Grapes of Wrath//, but the main purpose of the book seems to be to expose the injustice that surrounded the treatment and conditions of the families that took part in the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. Steinbeck reveals the harsh realities that faced the migrating American people during the mid-twentieth century. Through this particular work of literature, Steinbeck's main goal is to stress the importance of confronting injustice and promoting equality, in a way that could have prevented the unimaginable hardships the families in his novel had to go through.



Steinbeck's purpose for chapter twenty-nine of this novel is to bring into clearer terms the sheer unfairness and injustice surrounding the migrating families lives. The author uses this chapter as a way to sum up the entire relationship between the wealthy owners and the underpaid, abused workers at this time in history. This chapter furthers the entire work's purpose by pointing out the failure of the well-off Californians to act against the injustice they saw occurring. Steinbeck juxtaposes the condition of wealthy Americans with that of the migrating families, while simultaneously using the flood as a way to symbolize the relationship that the wealthy Californians have with the migrating families looking for work.
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