Grapes of Wrath- Chapter 1

The chapter one in Grapes of Wrath, was a pretty significant chapter, and one that I thought deserved to be wrote about. In chapte one, it begins with all the details on the "Dust Bowl." It was early May in Oklahoma, and there was no rain to be seen or any in the future for awhile. There was dust surrounding anything that could move. It was a really sad time for most people. Every once in awhile there would be a rain cloud, but it never gave them anything but a couple drops of rain. People were really not sure how to take it, and never really knew just quite what to do. The dust eventually got so bad, and the wind picked up, so people started to wear handkerchiefs around their faces, and they would also wear goggles around their eyes. It was a really bad time, and conditions like this could really hurt someone. You really had to be careful. The wind was also killing all the corn, and causing it to be very wind damaged. Everyone was just really praying that the wind would die down, so that they could save their crops. The wind finally did die down, but not in time. All of the crops were ruined. The men were not as upset as everyone figured they would be. They just figured out how to deal with all the corn that was ruined. This chapter is a really important one, because it explains to the readers what started the moving of everyone to California. This chapter is also the one that foreshadows all of the themes that we would be seeing, reading the book. Chapter one was kind of a sad way to start a book, but it was a very realistic chapter, and chapter one showed us all that really happened to start off what we call today the Great Depression. A lot of people were devistated and shocked at this time, and never knew what was going to happen next.