...8.(Evaluating) Decide whether Steinbeck's suggestion of labor unity in chapter 14 is to suggest a nonviolent or violent uprising against "the great owners" and defend your decision with concrete details from "The Grapes of Wrath." I think that Steinbeck is trying to get them to unify peacefully to attain a common goal. Going back to when Jim Casy said "maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of," I think that Steinbeck is trying to get readers to recognize that they are not alone (pg. 24). All tenant farmers are losing their land. The uprising may consist of actions that make people seem bitter, but they are upset because they are starving. I think the suggestion is to come together nonviolently, and to realize that they need to show "the great owners" the results of their causes (pg.151). 9.(Understanding) Identify Ma and Pa Joad and describe each of their roles. Ma Joad is the mother of Tom, Rose of Sharon, Al, Ruthie, Winfield, and Noah Joad. Her role shifts and she becomes the center of the family as Pa Joad loses efficacy as the head of the family. Ma becomes the matriarch of the family. Pa Joad is...
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...Ma, Head of the Family Migrating across the country and building a new life from scratch is a terrifying experience that many families had to face throughout The Grapes of Wrath. Going through such a change in someone’s life can change them as a person. In the Joad family, Ma showed significant growth throughout the novel. She went from a behind the scenes follower to stepping into the role of head of the family. All the while she made sure that everyone was taken care of and stayed together, as that is what family is about, even if family is greater than just blood. Ma Joad is a symbol of unity and strength in a time when little hope was left. The role of a woman, as depicted in the novel, was not one of power. Ma cooked meals and cared...
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...During the difficult times of the Great Depression, families sought strength and power from those sharing similar deprivation and misery. In Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the Joad family is taken through a flurry of complications as they make their way westward escaping the destruction and eradication of the land they once owned. Throughout their journey to California, the Joad family grasps the importance of community, and the impact it has on their travels. The communities they encounter help them throughout their travels by administering encouragement and support. The Joad family experience the sense of community, when they settle in decrepit Hooverville and the egalitarian government camp. The Wilsons and other families the Joads meet along the route, are additional support. The communities and...
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...Throughout the semester we read three different books: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Let The Water Hold Me Down by Michael Spurgeon, and Poor People by William Vollmann, all have a common theme, poverty. The books take on different aspects of poverty and use real life experiences that make you aware of what happens in their lives and how they deal with difficult situations. The Grapes of Wrath and Let The Water Hold Me Down have common story lines like family, grief, death, poverty, oppression, and they show how in different time periods the poor had to live and survive. The Grapes of Wrath novel follows the Joad family on their journey to California in search for work and comfortable living. The Joad’s get forced out of their land and are sent packing by the banks that is buying up everyones land for the plantation and growth of cotton. The family sets out on their trip to the “land of milk and honey” with Tom, who has been paroled, Ma, Pa, Al, Granma, Grampa, Uncle John, Rose of Sharon and husband Connie, Ruthie and Winfield, and preacher John Casy, and Noah....
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...The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is not an ordinary book, Steinbeck contrast normal chapters and intercalary chapters to depict the relationship between American farmers at that time and the Joad’s family. The story takes place during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Steinbeck also used intercalary chapters to portray the impact of the Dust Bowl, reform in agricultural industry, Great Depression, and the effect that large corporations had on the rural farm families. Throughout the intercalary chapters, Steinbeck uses many rhetorical devices such as syntax, diction, and parallelism to create a tone or attitude of how the midwestern farmers were mistreated and to make readers feel the emotion that the midwestern farmers were going through back then....
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...#2. Chs. 1:18-3:20 Sin We're damned! Paul takes time to help us see that mankind is worthy of the wrath of God. The ignorance of man is displayed in the supressing of the simple and plain truth that God is real and he has a righeous design(decreee) for this world. This is a section addressed to the Gentiles of the world. The wrath of God is on it's way, and this section shows us why. So yeah, the prolouge is done, and everyone of Paul's readers should be nice and prepared as he uses this section to completely floor them with the revelatio of the sin inside of them. The Gospel in ways is similar to medical care. If the patient doesn't know his state of decaying health, he won't understand why he needs to see a doctor. Paul explains to the Romans...
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...In chapter twelve of Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, tenant farmers filled up cars on the migrant road, Highway 66, to reach California. Due to the fact that many were evicted off their land back home, many began to believe that California was the new site to achieve goals such as, maintaining a steady job, and earning wages for the family. Steinbeck utilizes repetition,asyndeton, and negative diction to establish the recognition of the hardships faced. Therefore, Steinbeck enforces these techniques in order to evoke sympathy upon the families, such as the Joads, because of the number of issues that occur during this journey and for the future. The daily life in areas such as Oklahoma, have been completely destroyed...
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...In Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, he describes the setting as "All day long the blazing midsummer sun beat down upon that square mile of abominations . . . tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry and dining rooms littered with food black with flies, and toilet rooms that are open sewers" (328). These are the work conditions that the main character, Jurgis, deals with throughout the novel. The same theme, life is not fair, occurs in the novel Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck. The family goes through hard times during the great depression. In Langston Hughes’s poem, “Mother to Son”, the mother teaches her son to keep going in life, even if it is not fair. The final work that this...
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...Fiero, when stating "Social Realism, often a vehicle of social cricism and protest, dominateed the novels of John Steinbeck . . . "(Fiero) means that Steinbeck had a lot of criticism for what he had seen. "Social Realism" (Fiero 409) itself is not some form of literary criticism, but is simply "a style that presents socially significant subject matter in an objective and lifelike manner" (Fiero 409). Now knowing what Social Realism is, we have to interpret what Steinbeck wanted people to get out of his book. The Grapes of Wrath is about a family searching for the American Dream and always falling just short, always being enticed just to go and be foiled. It begins, at the start of the book with Tom being in possession of basically a help wanted...
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...The Grapes of Wrath (1940) When Darryl Zanuck was chosen as the executive producer for The Grapes of Wrath, eyebrows were raised. Zanuck, then head of Twentieth Century Fox, was considered politically conservative and therefore an odd choice as the executive producer (Ebert). In fact, Zanuck was nervous about the left-wing political views of the novel, and due to common "red-baiting," he sent a private investigator to Oklahoma in hopes of legitimizing the novel's contents (Levy). John Ford, also politically conservative, was hired as the film's director. Ford, who was not as concerned as Zanuck about the novel's liberal content said, "The whole thing appealed to me–being about simple people–and the whole story was similar to the famine of...
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...Grampa, introduced to the reader in chapter eight of Grapes of Wrath, is a spirited individual that adds interest and character to the family. At first, he is made out to be cruel and mean, but it soon becomes clear that he contributes greatly to the family and is a critical element of their dynamics. As an old man, Grandpa is “full of piss an’ vinegar”(79) and continues to be run about, eat well, and retain his fiery nature. His spirit seems to represent that of the farmers and their constant hope of finding a new home as well as success. Hence, the man’s lively soul never dims despite harsh circumstance and situation ailing and threatening the family. Even at an old age, he refuses to give up and is still willing to drive halfway across...
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...After Kino found the pearl he felt alone, and scared until he hears Juana singing, then he feels content with his family beside him. “Kino felt all the warmth and security of his family behind him, and the Song of the Family came from behind him like the purring of a kitten”(pg 29 paragraph 2). Kittens purr only when they are happy and satisfied. This part of the novel explains through imagery how evil and violent the pearl has made Kino become, when trying to defend his pearl.“Kino’s hand crept into his breast where his knife hung on a string, and then he sprang like an angry cat, leaped striking and spitting for the dark thing he knew was in the corner of the house”(pg 37 paragraph 4). This text from the passage symbolizes had great Kino’s love and greed for the pearl. When he leapt striking and spitting he was trying to defend the pearl because he thought of all the many great things were to come for him, Juana, and Coyotito. This also shows that when something steps in between Kino and the pearl, Kino is becoming more vicious and violent trying to defend that faint hope of fortune for his family. I this sentence Steinbeck used imagery to describe the look of the buyer’s eyes when Kino brings in his pearl. “But the buyer’s eyes had become as steady and cruel and unwinking as a hawk’s eyes, while the rest of his face smiled in greeting (pg 48 paragraph 3). The text from this passage symbolizes that the buyer’s eyes were like hawk’s steady watching for another potential victim...
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...Personalities of the Grapes of Wrath In any good story the author uses the characters to further develop the story. A great example of this is in the novel The Grapes of Wrath. The characters of Tom Joad, Ma Joad and Jim Casey provide different characteristics to expand the plot; Tom provides a sense of practicality to the story, Ma is strong, and Jim Casey shows leadership qualities. These characteristics foreshadow the character’s destiny in the story. In John Steinbeck’s proletarian novel, The Grapes of Wrath, his early descriptions of and dialogue for Tom, Ma and Jim Casey establish their personalities and futures. The main character Tom Joad is best described as practical. When Tom was in prison he learned the valuable lesson of taking one day at a time. Ma Joad explains it best when she says "You can't go thinkin' when you're gonna be out. You'd go nuts. You got to think about that day, an' then the nex' day, about the ball game Sat'dy….Jus' take ever'day." (91). An example of Tom being practical was just before the Joads and Jim Casey left for California and they were trying to figure out a way to get Granpa to go. Tom...
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...The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Grapes of Wrath is a beautifully written but extremely moving and heartbreaking novel with interesting, realistic and well-developed characters. Among the characters, Ma Joad, Jim Casy, and Tom Joad emerge as prominent figures. Ma Joad, the leader of the family who holds down the fort when things begin to falter or break apart; Jim Casy, the former preacher and spiritual man who sees the deeper soul of humanity; and Tom Joad, the rebel who makes strides to transform his character, to carry on Casy’s fight and the fight for his people, who speaks for an entire group. Set in...
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