“The Grapes of Wrath” 

John Steinbeck.

Read “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck.  The story is absolutely gripping.... Was relevant during the Great Depression.... Is relevant even today... Small land owners turning peasants, then migrant, then labourer, then destitute, then............

My few takes from the book...

“Quotes”:

i) If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we."

ii) "If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do'll make him feel rich.

iii) Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn' have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

iv) "Woman can change better'n a man," ....... "Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.

v) And where a number of men gathered together, the fear went from their faces, and anger took its place. And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right—the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.