Diction In The Grapes Of Wrath

The novel, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, is a classic American novel about the Great Depression. The novel is written in incalerarly chapters and is about the struggles that migrant workers faced during this time. When Steinbeck was writing his novel, he did lots of research and the struggles he writes about are from real stories. As we look closely at the chapters individually, from the syntax and diction, we are able to conclude the overall purpose of the novel. Steinbeck’s use of parallelism and diction, in chapter 5, supports his message that the farmers were against something they could not take down alone.

In Chapter 5, there are a few examples of parallelism syntax within the context. One of which is, “ Some
For example, “The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects. They crawled over the ground, laying the track and rolling on it and picking it up. Diesel tractors, sputtering while they stood idle; they thundered when they moved, and then settled down to a droning roar. Snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their snouts into it, straight down the country, across the country, through fences, through dooryards, in and out of gullies in straight lines. They did not run on the ground, but on their own roadbeds. They ignored hills and gulches, water courses, fences, house.”, this paragraph is filled with several examples. The phrase, “ great crawlers moving like insect”, represents the tractors as inhumane pest only there to destroy and “the incredible strength of insects” is representing a farmer’s worst fear of is an invasive species of insect horde destroying the crops, this is comparing the tractors to this. Next, Steinbeck, calls the tractors “ Snub-nosed monsters”, here he is comparing the tractors to monsters and he describes the yards in a way that makes you imagine your own yard getting destroyed, “ raising the dust and sticking their snouts into it, straight down the country, across the country, through fences, through dooryards, in and out of