I am going to answer the question "What are the causes, gains, and losses of the conflict dealt with in this book?" from the book the Grapes of Wrath. The main conflict in the book was that there was a large drought that has caused many farmers to lose their jobs and land because they aren't producing enough goods. This is what happened to the Joad family which is causing them to have to migrate to California to find a home and jobs. On cause of the the conflict was the large drought. The loss of this is that they weren't able to keep their crops good and healthy which made them unusable. Unusable crops couldn't pay the banks, and if they weren't paid the Joads had to leave. There wasn't much of a gain from the drought besides that this led to some of the farmers getting tractors and making double that they were making before. For the Joads there was no gain because they were not one of the ones who got the tractors, or agreed to them anyway. The man who did take this job was Joe Davis and his reasoning for doing it was described by him saying "Three dollars a day. I got damn sickof creeping for my dinner-and not getting it. I got a wife and kids. We got to eat. Three dollars a day and it comes every day." (Steinbeck, John, and Robert J. DeMott. p.37) A second cause is that the bankers forced them to travel to California. The loss of this was that is that the Joads had a very long journey which was very stressful. The hard part for them was that they didn't know that after they got to California if it would all even be worth it. The gain was that the family got much closer. They learned a lot about and from each other that they might have never known if it was not for them being forced to move.
Steinbeck, John, and Robert J. DeMott. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
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