SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Steinbeck, Market Discipline, Neoliberalism
16 May 2020
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I have chosen the reading the grapes of wrath" chapter 5 by john steinbeck. In this chapter the conflict showed, not involving people, but groups who represent socio-economic classes. For example people with more money and power are higher-class people. The extensive effects of the drought and the bank acts to force people out of a house just because they didn"t pay. Steinbeck clearly differentiates between the understanding farmer and the link of the farmer"s family to the land and the company with not so friendly and emotionally cool group of companies. These men take their self-respect from their closeness to earth and its cycles of growth. When their relationship is cut-off with the land, which makes them lose their identity and the companies highlight their shock.
