Poor American peasants benefited from the exploitation of the world by U.S. imperialism

Clyde 2021-12-09 08:01:21

"Grapes of Wrath" is about the poor American farmer Tom who was driven from the land where his ancestors lived for generations by the evil landlord and capitalist, and his family was forced to wander. On the way to find a living in California, my grandfather and grandmother couldn't endure the tragic death halfway through the suffering. In the endless hectares of the landlord’s orchard in California, the whole family has toiled all day long but has no fruit. Why? Just because there is no way for the poor in this old society! But in the United States in the 1930s, it was possible to realize that poor peasant families could drive cars and eat beef hamburgers. At that time, many people in China had never seen a car and starved to death. The world’s poor are one family? The "terrible waters" of American life is incomprehensible for people from other countries.

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The Grapes of Wrath quotes

  • [last lines]

    Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.

  • [the family is leaving the farm, heading for California]

    Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?

    Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.

    Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.

    Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.