Right now I'm reading John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath at the same time I'm listening to the audiobook of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. If you're familiar with both books you'll understand when I say that compared to what the man and the boy go through in The Road, the Joads are a bunch of pussies.
Which is unfair. The conditions the main characters face in The Road are about as bleak as they could possibly be without comletely draining them of their will to live. In The Grapes Of Wrath, the Joads are part of a massive migration of poor farmers to California. Things are unbeleivably hard for them, but there's always hope and a strong family to keep them going. Both are about that human drive for survival for ourselves and our loved ones. The characters in these books would give everything for their families. The level of sacrifice just goes way further for the man and the boy than for the Joads.
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