Family Disintergration

One of the hardest things in life to endure is change, and no matter how big or small it is, it will have a lasting impact on the person or situation that it is affecting. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck demonstrates major change in regards to the Joad family and their beliefs. As they travel from Oklahoma to California, they are faced with many new people, challenges, and different ways of life then they …

…the novel and the need to help others, basically all becoming one family. The stout woman smiled. “No need to thank. Ever’body’s in the same wagon. S’pose we was down. You’d a give us a han’.” “Yes,” Ma said, “we would.” “Or anybody.” “Or anybody, Use’ ta be the fambly was fust. It ain’t so now. It’s anybody. Worse off we get, the more we got to do” (Steinbeck 606).