The Grapes of Wrath #7

There are many symbols in the novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The story is about a family traveling to California in search for work and money because they can not afford to work and live on their farm. The main reason they can not stay on the farm is because of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl is where is the little rain and there is huge storms with dust. With the dust, the crops can not grow because they have little water and sun. The dust sybols the end of their life on the farm and the need to move on. Also on the trip, the Granparents pass away. This symbols that they can not go back to their old life because it is not there anymore. I mean by this because the Granparents represent the past and they are not alive anymore so the farm is also dead and in the past. There in one thing that gives the familes hope. The daughter is pregnant. Her baby represents the hope for a new life. During the trip her husband, Connie leaves her. This shows that the baby will have a life of hardships ahead of it because it was born into sorrow. The day before the baby is born its mother, Rose of Sharon, worked in the cotton field. This shows that the baby will have to work hard in its life. When the baby it born, it was not alive. This symbols the loss of hope the family has. The baby would not have been able to live much of a good life if he was alive. The family belileves when they get to Calfornia they will get to eat the fruit and they will be nuorished with the fruit. This symbols the lack of knowledge the family has about the place they are going. When the family does find work at a peach farm, Winfield, the youngest child, does eat a ton of peaches and he gets sick. This represents that the family was wrong about everything they thought California would be.