8. This novel reflects history very well because the author lived in the time period written about. This gives him an upper hand to any other person writing on the great dust bowl. I think that Steinbeck was trying to get us to realize the responsibilities between workers and bosses. I believe that he wanted us to understand the fact that many bosses were mistreating their workers. He was making a statement against the cruelty of the people in positions of power. Also I think that he wanted us to see that women were important to society as well. In the beginning of the book Ma did not have much say in many of the issues the Joad family was facing. The men were the ones who were making the big decisions. In the last third of the book however Ma was the one who was holding the family together. She was the one making the important decisions. Ma was the person deciding to move. She told the men what to do most of the time. I think that Ma was on of the most influential people in the book, but that her family did not realize it until after they arrived in California. I believe that Steinbeck was trying to start a movement towards justice in human affairs. He was very concerned with they way people were being treated. They were treated like animals at some points in the book. I think he was influenced by what he culture he lived in. Steinbeck wrote the book during the Depression. So it was easy to get inspiration for what he was writing because it was happening all around him. It may have been happening to Steinbeck himself. The people he saw probably influenced him the most. The stories they told, and the wear and tear he could sense in the people themselves made a vivid inspiration for him. The entire ordeal with the depression was his greatest influence.
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