My Favorite Book

My sophomore year in high school I was required to read a couple of outstanding books. My teacher, Mr. Henry, was particularly fond of the Grapes of Wrath and its author John Steinbeck. I also learned to love the novel that won the Pulitzer Prize more than 70 years ago. Set during the Great Depression, Steinbeck focused on a poor family, the Joads, of sharecroppers that had lost their home due to drought. The family traveled across the well known highway, Route 66, in search of jobs and hopefully a better life. Steinbeck wanted the greedy ones who caused the Great Depression to feel ashamed for what they had did to the families like the Joads.