In his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck creates a clear picture of what life was like for the migrants by describing the physical, mental, and emotional suffering they faced while they were forced to leave their homes. He was able to achieve his intended goal by reaching the reader, putting him in the migrants' shoes and forcing him to experience life alongside them as they travel along Route 66. A clear example of the reader sharing the migrant's experience is shown when the Joads have to leave their home: “How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? No. Leave it alone. Burn it." (Page 120) This passage allows the reader to become one with the migrants and feel their emotional suffering and loss. The reader can easily imagine himself in the position of the migrants, losing everything he has, and it is the thought of this that touches the reader's heart and arouses his compassion for the migrants. Furthermore, “The fertile land, the straight rows of trees, the sturdy trunks and the ripe fruit must die because there is no profit to be made from an orange. And coroners have to fill out the certificates – deaths from malnutrition – because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.” (Page 477) Chapter twenty-five, which describes excessive abundance of food and people starving, it is very effective in capturing the desperation and misery of families It makes the reader angry that innocent children have to die so that big corporations can profit and alerts the reader to the inhumane treatment received by the people. migrants. Furthermore, “they were hungry and they were ferocious. And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred." (Page 318) The people who traveled to California were forced to leave their homes, their pasts, and their lives and travel to a land they had never seen, where they were treated with disgust and hated because they were poor. The coldness directed at migrants fills the reader's heart with pity for them and directs his anger towards the bank, big companies, the police and all those who have acted inhumanely towards migrants. Steinbeck tears the reader's heart into pieces with his images of how migrants were treated and his descriptions of the obstacles they faced.