Grapes of Wrath 2 Flashcards
(41 cards)
What did Steinbeck undertake in 1937 which enhanced his understanding of the immigrant experience?
a journey from Oklahoma to California
What happened in October 1929 which contributed to The Great Depression?
The Wall Street Crash
What years were the wars of The Great Plains?
1860-67 - demonstrated American expansionism and colonialism
Quote from interchapter 5 which demonstrates the question of land ownership?
“you have to get off the land” “Grampa killed indians” “Pa was born here and killed snakes and weeds”
What caused the dust bowl?
intensive farming and poor land management
Who is the first character explored in Grapes? + quote
THE LAND! “To the red country and part of the gray country, the last rains came gently and they did not cut the scarred earth”
Quote from IC 11 describing a tractor which demonstrates Steinbeck’s objection to industrial agriculture?
“the heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse” compares to a horses “life” and “vitality”
Who was the third president of the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
What did Jefferson champion in his 1783 book ‘Notes on the state of Virginia’?
Agrarian economy
What did Southern agrarians publish in the 1930s which opposed industrialised agriculture?
I’ll take my stand’
Character and quote that embodies an inability adapt to the changing south
Muley Graves “graveyard ghost”
Character that demonstrates the impurity of Gospel of Wealth ideas
Connie - abandons pregnant wife for lure of economic success
Quote from IC 5 that shows changing nature of agriculture since the initial colonisation of the frontier”
“can’t make a living off the land unless you’ve got two, five, ten thousand acres and a tractor”
Quote form IC 19 that demonstrates the clinical nature of agriculture
“chemists”
How did the Marxist critic David Harvey describe capitalism in 2017?
“an offence against humanity that human history, if it survives that long, will regard severely”
Personification of cars description in IC 12?
“cars limping along the road like wounded things”
How can we link Ayn Rands novella ‘Anthem’ be linked to grapes?
depicted journey from we to I favoured individualism (opposite in GOW)
Quote from Casy demonstrates transcendentalist ideas
“human sperit” “maybe all men got one big soul thay everybody a part of”
Quote from Tom to show innocence to awareness (chapter 20)
“but now I know a fella aint no good alone”
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson publish in 1841 which embodied transcendentalist ideas? + quote
‘The Oversoul’ “within man is the soul of the whole”
The quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”….
……and cuts you off forever from the “we”
What did Chomsky publish in 1999 that examined world economics and criticised neoliberalism (free market capitalism)?
“Profit over People”
Casy quote demonstrating the futility of wealth
“If he’s poor in hisself, aint no million acres gonna make him feel rich”
Tom accuses the truck driver of “working against
his own people” - demonstrates how in the face of adversity, individualism rises over transcendentalist thought
