The Grapes of Wrath an American novel describes the great depression. During the great depression thousands of families experienced hardships.  And one family, name the Joads travels from the dust bowl to the land of plenty.  Force out lands of their lands and force out their homes and force them to travel to California to start whole a new life.   With the death of two family members, harsh conditions, with little money, the family struggles and still came through.  After spending weeks and weeks on the road the family finally reached California.  When they are in California no one will help them.  People are willing kill each other for jobs.  Those who are hired to pick the food are not allowed to eat it.  Finally members drop off like flies through heat and starvation.  Soon the land dries and even the harvesting is gone.

 As I read through The Grapes Wrath, I noticed that this book written by John Stein has many ironies and also I discovered that it also have some symbolic terms.  Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.  One of the ironies of the book was that, as Ma Joad said, “ If your in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people.  They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones”.  The irony is that if you need something you have to go to the people who nothing.  There are many examples of this book.  For the first example of this is at the truck station in chapter 15 when the restaurant owner and waitress give the family bread at a discounted rate, and candy two for a penny when it is actually nickel candy.  The truck driver then leaves large tips to the waitress.