More Heroism in "The Grapes of Wrath"

The Grapes of Wrath has a lot of heroism in it. The heroic actions of Casy were already talked about, but many people besides Casy were heroic. Rose of Sharon was heroic, but most people would not have guessed it by the way she acts for most of the book. For the majority of the book, Rose of Sharon sits around and mopes or whines and complains. She is not a very remarkable person throughout the book, and there are probably quite a few people that did not like Rose of Sharon much at all when they read The Grapes of Wrath. Rose of Sharon does show her worth at the end of the book, though. She had just given birth to a stillborn baby and was grieving for it when she and her family, besides Al, all had to leave the boxcar they had been living in because the river they were near had flooded it. They made it to a barn on top of a hill, where they found a boy with his starving father. The boy's father could not eat any solid food, because he had been without for so long. He could only have soups or other things that were liquid in form. Since Rose of Sharon had just given birth, she had breast milk, and she agreed to let him drink it. Ma made everyone get out of the barn, which left the man and Rose of Sharon. She let him drink her breast milk. People must assume that he gets well, but no one will ever know, because the book ends there. Rose of Sharon showed a lot of heroism in helping that man, becuase many people would not have helped him. Many people showed heroism in The Grapes of Wrath, and while Rose of Sharon's deed may have gone unnoticed, it was still incredibly important to the story, and the book could not have been finished without it.