The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Book Summary) - Minute Book Report

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  • This is a quick book summary of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly.
    Transcript: This is a story about a man named Tom Joad, a ex-convict recently released from prison for killing a man with a shovel while being stabbed. While hitchhiking to his father’s cotton farm in Oklahoma, Tom meets Casy, his childhood preacher who has since left the church.
    When they arrive at the farm, they see that it is abandoned and the land has been worked over by a tractor. A man named Muley, a local man who knew Tom when he was younger, approaches and explains that most of the families in the area have been forced out by the banks and that Tom’s family has gone to live with his Uncle John.
    Tom and Casy walk to Uncle John’s farm and Tom is reunited with his father, mother, grandparents, and siblings. Over breakfast, Tom’s father explains that they were planning on moving to California.
    The family packs in the truck, which includes Grandpa, Grandma, Casy, Uncle John, Connie, Rose of Sharon, Al, Noah, Ruthie, Winfield, and Tom. They begin their journey on the road to California on Highway 66.
    As the family continues on their journey, they stop on the side of the road to rest and meet the Wilson’s, a husband and wife whose car has stopped working. Grandpa Joad feels sick and dies of a stroke.
    As they exit Oklahoma and enter Texas, the car breaks down and needs a new engine part. The rest of the family goes ahead in the truck and rests at a stop, while Tom and his brother, Al, look for a service station. They find a car parts dealer and the one-eyed man sells them the part they need for cheap.
    They return to the vehicle and fix it, eventually catching up to the family at the stop. However, at the stop, a man returning from California tells them that workers arriving in California are being taken advantage of because of their desperation. Still, the Joad and Wilson families continue on their journey.
    The family drives through Arizona and finally arrives in California, but they still must cross the desert. At a local encampment, Tom’s brother, Noah, decides to stay and the Wilson’s urge the Joad’s to continue without them because Mrs. Wilson is near death. With Grandma Joad nearly dead, the family packs up and makes the final push into California. However, Grandma Joad never sees the orchards and city lights of California, as she dies in the back of the truck.
    After burying Grandma Joad, the family settles in an encampment called Hooverville. The collection of tents is full of poor workers and their families, all of which are struggling to eat. Tom meets a man named Floyd who tells him that there is no work in the area and describes how the workers are being taken advantage of because of so few jobs.
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  • @MinuteBookReports
    @MinuteBookReports  6 років тому +27

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  • @oceanwater6887
    @oceanwater6887 6 років тому +120

    Joe-ad?? I swear it’s Joe-d

    • @codysuttonmusic
      @codysuttonmusic 6 років тому +3

      Ocean Water It is Joad like Joe-d. Even in the movie.

    • @recession81
      @recession81 6 років тому +3

      Yeah he pronounced it wrong

  • @thebubby67833
    @thebubby67833 4 роки тому +22

    My uni are making me do essay on The great Gatsby and Grapes of wrath and seeing how there both parts of American literature
    THANK YOU FOR THIS 👏🏼

    • @maddie1056
      @maddie1056 2 роки тому +1

      same rip i hate both novels

  • @trDewy
    @trDewy 7 років тому +53

    Thanks for the summary friend! I appreciate your work here. Just a small tip though, Joad is pronounced "Jode" with a long "O" sound.

  • @petravondalova7926
    @petravondalova7926 5 років тому +47

    Thanks! I´m glad I didn´t have to read this...

  • @tdreamgmail
    @tdreamgmail 6 років тому +21

    I know this is fiction but if life is as tough as that. We're lucky to be alive in this time.

    • @seeriktus
      @seeriktus 6 років тому +4

      Its inspired by the dustbowl in the 1930s great depression. The 2009 recession almost got like this too.

    • @mycosartorius9064
      @mycosartorius9064 5 років тому +5

      Technically this isn't fiction. Steinbeck wrote this from the recount of a real man named Tom Joad.

    • @sandysnatch9045
      @sandysnatch9045 4 роки тому

      see also pete seeger music

    • @jaxong.2701
      @jaxong.2701 4 роки тому

      Lucky my ass.

    • @bettyjones2614
      @bettyjones2614 4 роки тому +2

      2020 and Capitalism has reached its limits the distribution of wealth is top heavy and it aint trickling down! With no FDR Keynesianist in sight its time to read a Brave New World and remember what we gave away!

  • @HH-xs2gm
    @HH-xs2gm 7 років тому +58

    Ok, what is up with that messed up ending? Like I get this is supposed to be a realistic novel but couldn't it be a little more satisfying...

    • @brett327
      @brett327 5 років тому +12

      Are you kidding? The breastfeeding on the last page of the book is the punch in the face for the reader that drives the entire point of the story home.

    • @MatthewChenIsAwesome
      @MatthewChenIsAwesome 5 років тому +3

      @@brett327 how so

    • @mrkgulchenko
      @mrkgulchenko 5 років тому +6

      Mathew Wang It symbolizes them becoming one family with all the desolate workers in California.

    • @Sweeps
      @Sweeps 4 роки тому +10

      It has some symbolism with showing how at the beginning of the book, women looked to their men. Now they depend on women. The book couldn’t really have a “good” ending because, well, when Steinbeck was writing this the depression still hadn’t been solved.

    • @xthedman420x8
      @xthedman420x8 4 роки тому +4

      @@Sweeps I believe in the end, it shows the character growth of Rosasharon, originally caring about nothing but herself and the baby, to basically saving another person's life despite her losing so much life (Like Grandma, grampa, ect.)

  • @SylvesterLazarus
    @SylvesterLazarus 4 роки тому +17

    I've just finished the book. I almost cried when Uncle John put the dead child in the river.
    "He held the apple box against his chest. And then he leaned over and
    set the box in the stream and steadied it with his hand. He said fiercely, "Go down an'
    tell 'em. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell 'em that way. That's the way you can talk.
    Don' even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain't gonna find out. Go on down now, an'
    lay in the street. Maybe they'll know then."
    :_(

  • @jasminepaul2062
    @jasminepaul2062 6 років тому +5

    I got this for my 7th grade book report, so thank you!

  • @lifeasithappens
    @lifeasithappens 2 роки тому +2

    Grapes 🍇 of Wrath should be a never ending story of American life even today 2022

  • @meshkuraparlak4805
    @meshkuraparlak4805 5 років тому +4

    This video saved me

  • @adwill8790
    @adwill8790 5 років тому +4

    This was lots of help for after I read the book and had to do a book talk on it thanks again :)

  • @Orlandojesse
    @Orlandojesse 8 років тому +7

    exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

    • @danielmaina9285
      @danielmaina9285 7 років тому

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    • @joyeeboo9031
      @joyeeboo9031 7 років тому

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    • @suelodenilynnl.3563
      @suelodenilynnl.3563 7 років тому

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      @luisotaviosilvarufino1583 7 років тому

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  • @dianagonzalez2710
    @dianagonzalez2710 7 років тому +1

    Thank you so much!

  • @thenextshenanigantownandth4393
    @thenextshenanigantownandth4393 5 років тому +12

    5:43 wait what?

  • @MicheldeGraaf
    @MicheldeGraaf 8 років тому +36

    the end stays weird though xD btw thanks a lot i scored an 8 out of 10 on my book test (which we have to do in the Netherlands)

    • @luizreyes2672
      @luizreyes2672 Рік тому

      Agree I'm glad I found someone with opinion

  • @liamcole9319
    @liamcole9319 5 років тому +1

    Thanks

  • @HotTakeAndy
    @HotTakeAndy 5 років тому +25

    Sounds depressing as hell

    • @akshitmonga478
      @akshitmonga478 5 років тому +7

      That’s why it’s the Great Depression

    • @bettyjones2614
      @bettyjones2614 4 роки тому

      Get used to it! Neo lie is about to be revealed!

  • @lawrencebrierley5161
    @lawrencebrierley5161 8 років тому +1

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @MinuteBookReports
      @MinuteBookReports  8 років тому

      +lauren brierley You're welcome. :)

    • @randomvibes5945
      @randomvibes5945 7 років тому

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  • @jesseroundy
    @jesseroundy 8 років тому +1

    this is brilliant ! thank you this made my day

    • @MinuteBookReports
      @MinuteBookReports  8 років тому

      +Jesse Zeus Thanks. :)

    • @jeffreybasilio8772
      @jeffreybasilio8772 7 років тому

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    • @Supertutoriales64
      @Supertutoriales64 7 років тому

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  • @HushtheMag
    @HushtheMag 4 роки тому +3

    Just finished it, The book was very captivating but the end was crap.

  • @ronniegibboni8327
    @ronniegibboni8327 5 років тому +2

    what do we think happened to Floyd??

  • @veronicamendez1646
    @veronicamendez1646 8 років тому +2

    Can you summarize Eleanor and Park please.

    • @MinuteBookReports
      @MinuteBookReports  8 років тому

      +Veronica Mendez I've already made a video about that book on my channel. You can search on my channel page for it. Thanks.

  • @Sweeps
    @Sweeps 4 роки тому +5

    His name is pronounced like toad but with a j sound, as in jar. Do J-oad

  • @michaelsaid8883
    @michaelsaid8883 6 років тому +2

    You're summary was amazing. But you forgot the most important part! The dog dying!! xD. nah but for real, thanks for much.

  • @haoweishi1340
    @haoweishi1340 9 років тому

    amazing book

  • @dusk4819
    @dusk4819 5 років тому +6

    “Joe-ad” 😂

  • @notmaireelneim
    @notmaireelneim 6 років тому +2

    No gunfight and no car chase. I was very disappointed with this book.

    • @mycosartorius9064
      @mycosartorius9064 5 років тому +3

      It's a true story, and is very realistic. Real life isn't a fantasy dumbass.

  • @nataliarilling9178
    @nataliarilling9178 3 роки тому +1

    Holy fuck

  • @ananthidurai9433
    @ananthidurai9433 4 роки тому +3

    Sir grapes of wrath summary in tamil pls

  • @frankgarcia9501
    @frankgarcia9501 3 роки тому

    Ah yes my favorite weezer song

  • @dracotitanfall
    @dracotitanfall 5 років тому

    Holy shit thats way too damn sad, like god wtf

  • @gibbz91
    @gibbz91 Місяць тому

    Have I been saying my name wrong all this time? I thought it was joad like toad but this kid keeps saying jo-ad

  • @cheyennedouthitt4095
    @cheyennedouthitt4095 9 років тому +4

    well that escalated quickly. #First

  • @samking4179
    @samking4179 4 роки тому +3

    Steinbeck = depressing

  • @aidanswenson9659
    @aidanswenson9659 4 роки тому

    Was this just a big add for joe?

  • @WreStlinGaddict1000
    @WreStlinGaddict1000 8 років тому

    I thought Tom refused to go.

  • @facundohabermehllizarraga6081
    @facundohabermehllizarraga6081 5 років тому

    Thanks dude u save my ass

  • @gma8301
    @gma8301 8 років тому

    subtitle pleaseeeee? where i can find it?

    • @MinuteBookReports
      @MinuteBookReports  8 років тому

      +gma Subtitles are on the video. It's the little "CC" graphic near the settings. Hope you can find it. :)

    • @gma8301
      @gma8301 8 років тому

      +Minute Book Reports thank youuuuu such a big help.
      :)

    • @gma8301
      @gma8301 8 років тому

      i can't download it with subtitle.. what can i do? help me please.

  • @red-cy6vc
    @red-cy6vc 9 років тому +1

    hi

  • @noble_destroyer5254
    @noble_destroyer5254 2 роки тому

    Siuuuum

  • @zizipi
    @zizipi 5 років тому

    😮

  • @rat5project307
    @rat5project307 8 років тому +19

    joAAd? the hell? Do you even english?

  • @mrgotham3685
    @mrgotham3685 7 років тому +7

    This book sucked

    • @poo3922
      @poo3922 5 років тому +1

      It was a beautiful and raw depiction of the Great Depression in my opinion.

  • @simpleartists
    @simpleartists 4 роки тому

    please narrate in tamil language

  • @poo3922
    @poo3922 5 років тому

    Pronounce the names correctly please.