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__Synthesis Essay on The Grapes of Wrath__ Has injustice always taken a major role in the world today? In the world, injustice has always been visible to the eyes of the individuals. The way in which we judge one may affect us or them in the future. One who sees injustice, or hears about injustice is the one who will be most likely to encounter it. The role of each individuals is to fight against any form of injustice encountered. To a great extent many knowledgeable authors have written great stories each presenting their own views on injustice. Each categorizing this, in their own way. In the novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” by Steinbeck, Homeless by Quindlen, The Ways we Lie by Ericson, and On Dumpster Diving by Eighener many forms of injustice are presented to the reader.

Each individual has always taken a greater part in injustice. They see it, or actually live it without really knowing so. So they never really prove how the unjust the world has been to them because of their own fault. “On Dumpster Diving,” Lars Eighner also provides a form of justice like the one above. Eighner ere talks about how much he likes what he does for a living but doesn’t exactly gets benefit for what he does. “I think it a sound and honorable niche, although if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life, perhaps--and only perhaps--as a slightly less wasteful consumer, owing to what I have learned as a scavenger.” The form of injustice shown here is that even though, he enjoys this way of life he would still like to live a normal one. He should have the opportunity to make a living from what he does. Even though it may sound wrong in the form of the word injustice he’s bringing this down on himself. To be allowed to live a comfortable life, while doing what he enjoys doing the most.

It shouldn’t be a duty more like a form of responsibility what an individual does to confront injustice. As humans we easily decipher injustice when it is seen through our eyes. “Homeless,” by Anna Quindlen shows a way in which injustice is occurring now even in our most common places. “They are not the homeless. They are the people who have no homes. No drawer that holds the spoons. No window to look out upon the world. My God. That is everything.” Yes, its true we provide them with a shelter, but never really a home. In order to fight against this as individuals we must provide them a real home. A place in which they can feel safe and well away from lies.

Lies have always taken a greater part in injustice. When we see injustice, sometimes we don’t do anything about it. We lie to ourselves and really don’t d anything about it lying comes so easily to many that they don’t really take it like a lie anymore. On “The Ways we Lie,” by Stephanie Ericson’s, it discusses different types of lie. “I discovered that telling the truth all the time is nearly impossible. It means living with some serious consequences.” People lie whether they know it or not even though they may not recognize this as a lie. This is how so much injustice is occurring throughout the society in which we live in. even in the past has injustice always been there.

Finally, on the injustice occurring to us by thinking and evaluating about it, it occurred to many just like us in the past. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck we read about the Joads, and the hardships they had to go through during the Dust Bowl. Starting of in Chapter 5 when it is discovered that their Joads have lost their farm/house. “The owner men sat in their cars and explained. You know the land is poor. You’ve scrabbled at it long enough…You’ll have to get off the land.” How they have been ripped off, of their home. The only place they probably felt safe and secure.

In Chapter 11 of, The Grapes of Wrath the Joads were driven of their land. "When the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land." The land is not his home, but its more of a place where he felt safe, its his security not just some type of shelter where, he eats, lives, and sleeps. By them being driven off, they must now find a new home. Another place in which they won’t be driven off and where they might be able to regain that sense of security that was taken from them by the bank.

For the Joads every, day while searching for a new home, they had to create a fake sense of security for themselves. In Chapter 17 of The Grapes of Wrath, it describes how each night while heading towards California they had to create a new home. "In the morning the tents came down, the canvas was folded, the tent poles tied along the running board, the beds put in place on the cars, the pots in their places." Each day their home was a tent in which they slept.

The need of justice was what had the Joads searching and heading towards California. In Chapter 21 of The Grapes f Wrath, the Joads head away from all the cruelty of injustice. “And the migrants streamed in on the highway and their hunger was in their eyes, and their need was in their eyes.” The feeling that they had left in themselves after all the justice in the world had been taken away from them.

Nowadays, injustice is seen and heard off. Although much action is never taken. As individuals action must take place against injustice. Even the smallest action towards such a person as a homeless, not the homeless, will make a difference in their lives. Give those in need of a home help, because sometimes it will be vice versa and you will be the one searching for that type of action needed towards you. We shouldn’t be steered in the wrong direction based on any sort of appearance. But more on what the real problem in the world is. That’s all there is to it.