"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Essay on the development of Tom Joad as a symbol for the migrant workers of the time.

Schwartz, Aaron ENG 11 AP 10/4/04 The Bigger Tom Nobody expected that they would be kicked off of their own land, but when so when it happened there were no manuals on what to do next. Everyone starts off on their own journey to start a new life. Not everyone is able to survive this great of a change. Steinbeck shows how the cooperative power of many is needed to succeed by developing the character of Tom …showed first 75 words of 1162 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1162 total…farmers and the farm workers because both social classes need each other, and they both realize this. If they continued being small groups of their own, eventually all the migrant workers would either start dying off or break into rage turning the world to chaos. Since the landowners do not want too much trouble, they have to give in when the farmers start to work together. If they did not, everyone would end up unhappy.