Grapes of Wrath

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Here's the grapes, and here's the wrath!

Nelson Muntz, on The Grapes of Wrath

Very good wrath, Nelson.

Principal Skinner, on Nelson Muntz

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written in 1437 by Douglas Adams entirely on bits of toilet paper that Adams recovered from the Great Toilet Paper Avalanche of 1436. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written and has since inspired countless authors and literary scholars. However, Adams' stipulation that successive volumes of the book must all be printed on *used* toilet paper has had the negative effect of limiting it's readership and forcing bookstores to make special rooms solely for carrying editions of the book.

1 Plot Synopsis
2 Legacy
3 Trivia
4 See Also

[edit] Plot Synopsis

The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of a small town in Southern California where genetically engineered grapes have become the most popular selling fruit.(Eventualy in the story the grapes turn against the creators and kill everybody, but thats not till much later) A brave, young farm worker named John Galt discovers that some of the grapes are becoming intelligent and fully sentient as a result of their genetic engineering. He attempts to convince the President of The United States that the grapes will soon rise up and revolt against their human creators, but his theories are ignored. Eventually, the grapes do rise up and set off on the goal of taking control of Shea Stadium from where they will rule the Earth and force all human kind to submit to their grapey ways. The novel essentially chronicles John Galt's leadership of an underground rebellion against the grapes, but it also tells of how humankind, as a result of the war with Grapekind, develop a new philosophy of life based primarily around collecting Beanie Babies and struggling to understand their own inner-greatness. They name this philosophy "Beanieism" and attempt to spread it around the globe during the conflict, but meet with great resistance from gay people, Communists, and, of course, the Grapekind. Later, a conflict develops between John Galt and his first-in-command, Henry Fonda, when he discovers that the Chancellor of the Galactic Senate is, in fact, a Sith Lord.

[edit] Legacy

Since it's original publishing, the novel has gone on to impress countless generations and, in some cases, change the lives of those who have read it. Famous ratcatcher Winston Churchill once said of the book, "This makes that 'Great Expectations' thing look like crap! Where is that preening faggot Dickens, anyway? He owes me, like, 50 quid!" Most noteworthy of Adams' writing style was the intentional introduction of a new character every 5 pages, typically preceded by the words "...and then, suddenly, in walked a tall glass of water that I wanted to drink in like a lemonade on a hot, Mississipi day...", a technique much copied and honored today in most literature.

[edit] Trivia

It was this book that introduced the phrase "How Y'all Doin?" into common phraseology.

When the grapes got old and shrivelled up they changed the name of the forefathers from The Grapes of Wrath to "The Angry Rasins"

Most modern editions of the book are approximately 976 pages in length, whereas the original was 2,976 as a result of Douglas Adams adding an appendix of 2,000 blank sheets of paper which has since been moved into a separate volume only available through Adams himself.