The Grapes of Wrath

Grapes of Wrath Long Writing

-For this long writing assignment, you will crawl inside of the head of John Steinbeck and reveal to the world your true intentions of writing the novel, Grapes of Wrath.

-You will select one of the styles of criticism, OR one of the five levels of allegory to defend that position as being the position Steinbeck ultimately had in mind when undertaking his travels and writing the text.

-The creation of an outstanding thesis and the complementary use of at least six pieces of quoted material from the text are requisite for the paper to be completed. We will work on these in class.

Consider the symbols, motifs, allusions, metaphors, and general syntax of the text to help drive your argument.

This will be a paper that has no minimum number of pages, BUT it cannot be done well in under three pages.