There is many things to learn from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. One thing is to believe in your family and have courage. The Joad family believes that when they get to Calfornia, they will have a life of wealth and food and money. If they did not have the courage to leave everything that they know behind, they would never have left. I think it was a good choice for them to leave. I do because there was nothing they could have done when their land is being taken by the banks. Another thing to learn is to never give up. The Joad family does not give up through all the horrible things happening to them. Ma Joad is the toughest person in the novel. She is the one thing that keeps her family alive and moving. She losses her son because he leaves the family, she watches the Granparents die, and she has to help he daughter give birth to a stillborn. These hardships are not for the faint hearted. Ma keeps on going strong and keeps moving for her family.
The tone in the begining of the novel is skeptic, but happy. The Joad family is worried that nothing will be waiting for them in California, but they know that it is the right choice for their family and they are happy for a chance at a new life. During the course of the novel, the tone and the moods start to dwindle. The people are hungry, they are running out of money, and they can not find work. The tone get sadder and sadder as the people are dying and running away. They do not have a lot of hope left and feel like there is nothing left for them to do with winter coming and they have no food.
The imagery in the novel is dull. John Steinbeck has good discriptions on the people, but he is not good at discribing the features of the land and the surroundings.
Steinbeck does have a lot of lessons in his novel. The tone in the book changes throughout the book and the imagery is nothing exciting.
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