Grapes Of Wrath is often described as a work of journalism even though the characters in it are fictitious. As far it is being an acceptable form of journalism, it does have many characteristics of journalism. For example, it was written for effect like campaigning journalism, it is very quote heavy and gives a voice to the voiceless. It also bridges the gap between journalism and art.
Grapes Of Wrath was seen as very controversial in its time because it portrayed an unreal situation, no one thought the conditions that the immigrants had to live in were that bad. In fact it turns out that that the conditions that the immigrants were forced to live in were actually worse than described in Grapes of Wrath. It is also a very descriptive book as this style of visual writing was popular in journalism at the time in the wake of photography.
The context of Grapes Of Wrath is the great depression and it is based on fact and essentially it is propaganda. I don't think Grapes of Wrath can be considered as a work of journalism but I do think that it is a work a journalism in the sense that it was written in a journalistic style for effect.
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