I would say that the novel The Grapes of Wrath reflects events in history pretty well. Like I said in an earlier blog, even though the Joads were a fictional family, they represent many real families that lived in that time period. The struggles they went through were the same struggles that many real families went through as well. The Dust Bowl did really happen and the people being kicked off of their land happened as well. Then you have all of the people trying to find work in California, and that really happened too. So overall, I would say yes, this novel does reflect the events in history pretty well for the most part.
Well The Grapes of Wrath was written in 1939 and the events in the novel were taking place in the 1930s so I am assuming that he lived during this time. Because he lived through this period, it probably influenced him to write about what he may have witnessed. Friends and family of his could have influenced him to write this novel because they themselves could have been going through things that the Joads had to go through.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.
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