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The issue of what is fact or fiction continue to be discussed today, and his portrayal of migrant farm workers has led to banning of the book through the years, with many publicly declaring the book to be obscene.

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Man’s inhumanity to man; the saving power of family and fellowship; the dignity of wrath; the multiplying effects of selfishness

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"Hit the reader below the belt. with rythms and symbols of poetry one can get into a reader-open him up and while he is open introduce things on an intellectual level which he could not reciceve unless he was opened up" steinbeck xi.

"I want the reader to be able to keep the general chapter separate in his mind" steinbeck xi

Syeinbeck is pleading, in general, for an end to man's inhumanity to his fellow man. He calls for more humane treatment for migrant worker's.

"Oakies"

He spent a lot of time getting to know families who lived in various migrant worker camps in towns like Bakersfield, CA and Visalia, CA. He was infuriated and disgusted by the amount of heartbreak and suffering that he witnessed, and he channeled that fury as he wrote The Grapes of Wrath. It was not easy going, and he had to scrap many drafts of the novel, but he finally gained momentum after visiting a camp in Bakersfield, CA. He gave himself 100 days to finish the novel.

The book was attacked in both California and Oklahoma, labeled in one magazine editorial as communist propaganda. In Kern County, California, the Board of Supervisors banned The Grapes of Wrath in both schools and libraries. The San Bernardino Sun said, "the fallacy of this [story] should not be dignified by a denial." Most of the negative energy in Oklahoma was targeted at discrediting Steinbeck's portrayal of the state and its inhabitants.

The Grapes of Wrath had immediate success. Sales of the novel shot it onto the national bestseller list where it was to stay throughout 1939 and 1940. Although mass circulation reviewers complained of its unconventional structure and downcast ending, the novel garnered a number of awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.

John Steinbeck

Steinbeck's background and previous writing experience found him well prepared to tackle the tale of the dispossessed Joads as they search for work in Depression-era California. Much of Steinbeck's young adult life was spent around the ranches of California's Salinas Valley. Working as a ranchhand, he gained firsthand knowledge of the migrant laborers who worked the farms. From this experience grew an awareness of the social inequalities affecting the labor force. topic

"If i can keep an honesty it is all i can expect of my poor brain...if i can do that it willbe all my lack of genius i can produce" steinbeck vii.

"What some people find in religeon a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory" steinbeck vii

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"If i could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly american book. But i am assialed with my own ignorance and inability. I'll just have to work with the background of these." steinbeck vii.

When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for the Great Depression and its effects." He famously said, "I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags," and this work won a large following among the working class due to Steinbeck's sympathy to the workers' movement and his accessible prose style

Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.