GRAPES OF WRATH

FROM BOOK...

• Written by: John Steinbeck
• Pages : 464
• Released in 1939
• Acclaimed masterpiece
• Won Pulitzer Prize

... TO MOVIE

• Screenplay : Nunnally Johnson
• Time: 129 minutes
• Released: 1940
• Won the Oscar for directing - John Ford
• Often named the greatest American film made

PLOT

• Joad family moves to California because they lost their land from dust bowl
• To find work with high wages and nice houses
• With many troubles on the way
• In beginning, men were the strength
• In the end, women like Ma were the strength

MAIN CHARACTER(TOM JOAD)

• Played by: Henry Fonda
• Jailed for murdered to defend himself
• Generational sharecropper
• "Loner" , troublemaker turned hopeful crusader
• Tom is one of the great American movie characters

OTHER MAIN CHARACTERS

• Ma-- Tom's mom (strength of group)
• Ma played by: Jane Darwell
• Won the Oscar supporting actress
• Casy played by: John Carradine
• Casy - preacher // "fairy godmother"

SETTING(S)

• Starts in Oklahoma City,OK
• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Many parts of California

MY OPINION

• Lots of supporting characters with not a lot of lines
• Great movie
• Tells a lot lot about a sad time in American history
• Tells a lot about the struggles they went through during the dust bowl
• Movie starts out hopeless but ends hopeful

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Nytimes.com. N.p., n.d. Web.
• The movie grapes of wrath
• "The Grapes of Wrath Movie Review (1940) | Roger Ebert." All Content. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.