<span> they </span>were<span> pace changers and they </span>were<span> that too but the </span>basic purpose<span> was to hit the reader below the belt
In his 1939 novel <em>"The Grapes of wrath"</em>, John Steinbeck alludes to the <em>Book of Revelations</em> from <em>"The Bible"</em> , <em>to capture the public’s attention</em> to the dehumanizing essence of capitalism reified with <em>The Great Depresion</em> of his time, and to share his socio-economical views, as he expressed it on a later interview: <em>“to rip a reader's nerves to rags” </em>and <em>"to make the reader participate in the actuality"</em>, with the history of America, a family’s struggle for survival, the troubles of Christian life; all relevant and logical with that period of American history.
