"Grapes of Wrath:" Response and Opinion

In response to this project, I think that the creators intention was understandable: create a piece that relates the issues of the Great Depression clustered on the route of migration that Steinbeck writes in Grapes of Wrath. However i do not think that this connection is truly fleshed out. Just because the focus is this mythical route does not mean that the same issues concern the paople living there currently as they did during the Dust Bowl. The Southwest is portrayed as "flat" and colorless, which is not the case. I think it is an interseting approach however i do not think that the project needed to be in this form. In other words function followed form.