The Ghost Of Tom Joad

                The narrative tone for the novel Grapes of Wrath changes throughout the book, but the one that best suits the main tone is hope/hopeful. This tone can be connected to the song Ghost of Tom Joad song by Brue Springsteen and Tom Morello. This song uses their instruments and their voices to portray a hopeful feeling. The song starts out slow and a little quite but when Tom’s guitar kicks in and his powerful voices comes it makes the song build and build when we get this presence that everything will be okay, we can’t help but smile a little. When the song finishes it goes back to a slower quieter tone which makes us look back on how we felt in the middle of the song. This song leaves you with a good feeling much like the novel did. In the novel when the Joads made their journey to California we wanted to feel hopeful, we wanted them to succeed. As the book went on the narrator got through all the hard times with a positives tone in his voices and by the end we felt hopeful that everything was going to be okay for the Joads because all the characters grew and changed for the better and we were left with a good feeling the same feeling you were left with by the song.

              In the novel the author brings this turtle along for the journey. We first meet the turtle as he is trying to cross the road. We got into his journey and wanted him to make it safley across. I feel the turltle was put into this novel as a symbol of hope. You can take your whole home on your back and travel safley across a "road". There will be opsicals in the way like cars were for the turtle, but no matter what if you just keep going you will get there. Just have a little hope and faith. This again tries into the hopefulness of the song. There were times in the music where it was slower and when it was faster pase and there was more energy in the song that could symbolize you trying to get through obstacles. By the end of the song you have surpast the obstacles and found hope.