2.+Author's+Purpose

Author's Purpose



John Steinbeck’s purpose for including Chapter nineteen in his novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” was to show the **digressions of a society in a corrupt era by resorting to act of stealing**. The act of stealing ranges from large, political proportions like America stealing the land from Mexico to small and insignificant acts like stealing an orange. Injustice is confronted by both social classes, the poor and the rich. The “Okies” and the farmers see a great amount of injustice but the business men had their share of injustice and confrontations of right versus wrong.