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TGOW Essay These words spoken by John Steinbeck push the learning to understand how the events of the Great Depression effect individuals, and building upon the concepts of human love and compassion in The Grapes of Wrath. The first sentence in the statement, "The writer is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures for the purpose of improvement...", relates to the misfortune and hardships the Joad family endures throughout the story. "Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and celebrate Man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit--for gallantry in defeat, and for courage, compassion, and love." has connection to the endurance and hope of the family through the struggles, and as to how the family successfully keeps moving forward. The first part in Steinbeck's statement reflects the many problems the Joad family faces, but shows how it improves through finding solutions to those problems. The "many grievous faults and failures" stand for these problems. The problems begin with the family leaving their home and then having to leave Uncle John's home. From leaving their possessions and dearest items. Those items are memories of the past life that ceases to exist for the Joads and causes despair for them. Yet they keep moving. Along the way, the family comes across death and losing members, but they learn to live without them. The Joads struggle against the harsh treatment, but remind themselves to know the persecutors are not their "own folk". Somehow the family always finds a way to see things through. Their lives may not be improving, but they are surely recovering from each difficult step. The "purpose of improvement" for the Joad family is to find the light. Once they do, the light leads them forward through the dark tunnels that lay ahead.
That light leading the Joad family is hope, and holding the light is the person with the biggest heart and strongest mind in the family. Ma Joad fits this figure in the story. She