Grapes of Wrath Connection

With everything going on in today’s current world (mainly the Coronavirus), people are doing everything necessary that they can to survive and get through this tough time. In Grapes of Wrath, the Joads had the same mindset that we have currently, and that mindset is to survive at all costs.

Currently, we are staying safe by social distancing from others and being in quarantine. Based on the Joads’ actions in Grapes of Wrath, it is safe to assume that if they were in our time, they would also be social distancing from others and they would be in quarantine. As most of us are in with quarantine with our families now, Ma Joad would also be with her family as she wants to keep her family together.

With the Great Depression, the stock market collapsed which made a lot of people lose money. When the coronavirus first hit, the stock market went down drastically and that made people lose some money. Obviously the Great Depression was much worse, but the downward trend is what is similar.

Out of all the books we have read this semester in Great American Novels, I would say that Grapes of Wrath has the best connection to the current crisis in our world. There are many similarities, characteristics, and events in the Grapes of Wrath that relate to today’s world.