"The Grapes of Wrath"

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This paper analyzes the novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck. The paper discusses the novel in relation to some of the ways in which Franklin D. Roosevelt responded to the needs of the people in 1933 and throughout the rest of the Thirties. Steinbeck's powerful novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", portrays the poverty and the dire trouble the country was in. The paper explains that people needed to know that the government understood and cared about their plight. The paper illustrates how Roosevelt let them know that he cared and that he would do everything in his power to rectify the situation.

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""The Grapes of Wrath" is the touching and dark story of the Joad family, who travels to California from Oklahoma after their crops fail and they lose their farm. The chapters of the novel are generally divided into chapters that discuss the Joad family and their problems, and a more general discussion of the Great Depression and its affect on the nation. One historian called it the "worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world" (Gusmorino, 1996). An article at the Roosevelt Institute states, "over $75 billion in equity capital had been lost on Wall Street, the gross national product had plunged from a high of $104 billion to a mere $74 billion, and U.S. exports had fallen by 62 per cent. Over thirteen million people, nearly 25 percent of the workforce, were now unemployed" (Editors, 2000)."

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