An Analysis Of John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

In the novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck the author uses excessive profanity, religion, and migrants to show the hard times family’s had to go through in the 1930’s. Most people believe that Steinbeck novel is too inappropriate for high school students because of its content. This novel should be banned from the high school curriculum. In the novel Steinbeck uses profanity which may be inappropriate for high school students. There’s drinking, smoking, swearing, and extramarital sex. There are many high school students who may not be ready to read a novel with that much profanity. In the novel it talks about the preacher and how he would rape women. That’s one thing that I strongly disagree with the content being in a novel for high

Steinbeck depicts the Joads family as migrants who lose their land in Oklahoma. The family is unemployed and homeless. Steinbeck based his story of the Joads' experiences on the real accounts of those living at the Weedpatch camp, built by the federal government as a place of shelter and protection for the desperate migrants who were often unwelcome in California and frequently exploited and abused. The novel succeeds as a gripping story and showing people in the time period. John Steinbeck, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, alternates chapters following the Joads’ saga with poetic interludes detailing the larger forces at work against the migrants. His lack of knowledge and understanding reinforces suspicion and hatred of the migrants, who for their part can’t understand why they’re so vilified. It’s an important lesson on perspective, and a fantastic starting point for discussing political, economic, and social issues still very relevant today.
This novel should be banned from the high school curriculum. This novel is too inappropriate for high school students. The novel may be too much for them to handle because of all the profanity and discrimination. This novel may be more suited for a college class were the students are much more mature and could handle all of the actions that take place in the