John Steinbeck's, In Dubious Battle is a relentlessly faced-paced, novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control. Caught up in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed …showed first 75 words of 2123 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2123 total…the arrogant land owners. London, along with Jim and Mac, steer the workers in a direction, to see this goal appear. They use the centralized theme of, recognition that anger must be sublimated into intense rage, and only then can it be enough to be useful. This theme is the most important concept of this novel. The theme is why everything happens the way it does, and it eventually transpires the outcome of the novel.