A Closer Look at Writing Style
In the excerpt, “The Grapes of Wrath,” the author John Steinbeck passes on the methodology used by a turtle in climbing the embankment (Steinbeck, 2006). Deliberately, the turtle prevails concerning the process of getting into an expressway. Currently, the voyage of the turtle has earmarks of becoming simpler since it moves in the level of asphalt. In regard to this case, the truck moves in the direction of the creature, as well as the driver decides to run over it, making the shell fly. As time passes on, the turtle begins to expand inside the shell and heads out as well as itself into an upright posture. At that point, the turtle creeps out of the dike and gets into the streets of the earth.
The turtle carries his home on his back like migrants, and this turtle picked up some seeds and dropped them on the other side of the road after a car hit him deliberately, spinning him around, as do people pick on migrants because they are weak (Steinbeck, 2006). Being weak i think, is the analogy between males and females that the question is seeking an opinion on, so who is weak in the Joad family? In the excerpt, Connie, who was married to Rose of Sharon (Roseashon) and left her alone, implying he felt he had a better chance to make it alone.
The turtle was alone, and the turtle abandoned its seeds for no apparent reason, and why was the turtle deliberately carrying seeds on its back? The turtle was desperate and willing to do whatever was required. So the baby is stillborn and floats away in a box, followed by Roseashon being able to give the dying man some nourishment from her best milk (Steinbeck, 2006). This could be an analogy to the turtle dumping its seeds in the dirt on the other side off the road. The dying man gave all his food to his boy so he could live; therefore males aren’t sketched to be weak except for Connie, but probably that is enough to draw the strength and weakness analogy from the turtle although not necessarily connected to either male or female is one weaker than the other. More so, I think it is the weakness of society that is represented by the car trying to injure the turtle due to malice.
To understand what it represents, one has to appreciate the ending in the world of the novel. The world Steinbeck sets up is a cruel, sun-bleached, dusty, terrible place. It is an unjust world, the hopeless picture it left people with was that of a half-fed man in his fifties, toiling in the pouring rain for hours, building an embankment to protect his family and all his belongings, only to watch it flow away in the snap of a tree in both the defiance of the effort and its futility (Steinbeck, 2006). At the beginning of the novel, the Joads are a happy family in Oklahoma; however, all that changes as time moves on. In this part, I believe that Steinbeck’s writing has achieved mastery of weaving magic to the lives of ordinary characters and scenery in his books, through his unique ability (and incredible talent) for writing descriptions.
Reference
Steinbeck, J. (2006). The Grapes of Wrath. Penguin. From https://www.jstor.org/stable/41582064