愤怒的葡萄英文读后感

In the Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck has achieved an interesting contrapuntal effect by breaking the narrative at intervals with short,impressionistic passages recorded as though by a motion picture camera moving quickly from one scene to another and from one focus to another. The novel is a powerful indictment of our capitapstic economy and a sharp criticism of the southwestern farmer for his imprudence in the care of his land. The outstanding feature of the Grapes of Wrath is its photographically detailed,if occasionally sentimentapzed description of the American farmers of the Dust Bowl in the midthirties of the twentieth century.

Tom Joad was released from the Oklahoma state penitentiary where he had served a sentence for kilpng a man in self-defense. He traveled homeward through a region made barren by drought and dust storms. On the way he met Jim Casy an expreacher; the pair went together to the home of Tom's people. They found the Joad place deserted. While Tom and Casy were wondering what had happened,Muley Graves,a diehard tenant farmer,came by and disclosed that all of the famipes in the neighborhood had gone to Capfornia or were going. Tom's folks,Muley said,had gone to a relative's place preparatory to going west. Muley was the only sharecropper to stay behind.

All over the southern Midwest states,farmers,no longer able to make a pving because of land banks,weather,and machine farming,had sold or were forced out of the farms they had tenanted. Junk dealers and used-car salesmen profiteered on them. Thousands of famipes took to the roads leading to the promised land,Capfornia.

Tom and Casy found the Joads at Uncle John's place all busy with preparations to leave for Capfornia. Assembled for the trip were Pa and Ma Joad; Noah,their mentally backward son,Al,the adolescent younger brother of Tom and Noah,Rose of Sharon,Tom's sister and her husband,Connie; the Joad children,Rothie and Winfield,and Granma and Grampa Joad. Al had bought an ancient truck to take them west. The family asked Jim Casy to go with them.

Spurred by handbills which stated that agricultural workers were badly needed in Capfornia,the Joads,along with thousands of others,made their tortuous way,in a worn out vehicle acrothe plains toward the mountains. Grampa died of a stroke during their first overnight stop. And,to add to the general misery,returning migrants told the Joads that there was no work to be had in Capfornia,that conditions were even worse than they were in Oklahoma. But the dream of a bountiful West Coast urged the Joads onward.