There are many life lessons that the reader learns about by reading this novel. After reading this book, you realize how lucky you are for having the things you have. You realize that life could be a lot worse. For example, you could be like the Joad family and have to leave everything behind to save your family's lives. The reader is probably lucky enough to have a house that will always be there for you when you want to come home and just relax.
What hit me really hard was when the grandparents passed away. I love my grandparents a lot. I am at their house more than my own, even. I realize how hard it would be to lose them. I also realized that I take advantage of them sometimes. I am lucky to have my grandparents still alive and for them to still be there for me. Luckily for the Joads, their deaths brought the family even closer than before.
Another lesson that the reader learns is that you have to work for things. If you're a normal person, you do not just get things handed to you. You have to earn good in your life. You may not have to work as hard as the Joads, but effort is necessary.
The reader learns that when times are harder than others, you have to pursuer and wait until things get better. Things always get better. When you have a problem, you just get through it the best that you can. Nothing comes easy in life.
The themes are very interesting to read about. A reader reflects well to history because they want to know about the past and they when a story is true, it is automatically more interesting than a fake one. At least that's my opinion.
Steinbeck, John, and Robert J. DeMott. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006.
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