Key Quotes Flashcards
(37 cards)
What does the author describe the land as in Chapter One?
‘Pale’
What are the women and children concerned their family will do in Chapter One?
‘Break’
How is the concerns of the women and children summarised in Chapter One?
‘The women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole’.
How does Tom outline initial criticisms of the rich in Chapter Two?
‘Sometimes a guy’ll be good even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker’.
How does Tom describe the driver’s talkative nature in Chapter Two and what does this reveal?
‘Spread nets’ and ‘Set traps’ - Reveals Tom does not like deception.
What does Casy believe the Holy Spirit is in Chapter Four?
‘One big soul ever’body’s a part of’.
How is Tom’s utter unawareness of the Joad’s moving shown in Chapter Four?
‘Less somebody stole it, like Pa stole it’ - Ironically believes nobody would have stolen it.
What are the banks described as in Chapter Five?
‘Monsters’ that enslave humans .
What are the farmers described like in Chapter Five and why is this?
Self-loathing, cold and angry but only because of a system ‘larger than themselves’.
What are tractor men described as doing to the land in Chapter Five?
The ‘rape’ of the land.
What is the tractor man accused of doing by the farmer in Chapter Five?
Working ‘against his own people’.
What does Muley Graves say about why he has not left in Chapter Six?
‘If only they didn’t tell me I got to get off, why, I’d prob’y be in California right now a-eating grapes and a-pickin an orange where I wanted’.
What does Casy say when doing grace in Chapter Eight?
“I’m glad theres love here”.
What do the farmers believe the buyers are in Chapter Nine?
No longer buyers of ‘junk’ but of ‘junked lives’.
How does Ma establish her matriarchal role in regards to Casy in Chapter Ten?
Says at the family conference that it is not a matter of ‘can we’ but instead ‘will we’ - overriding Pa Joad.
How is the relationship between the land and the farmer described in Chapter Eleven in comparison to the tractor man?
‘Kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land, he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself’.
What is explained to happen to those in flight in Chapter Twelve?
‘The people in flight from the terror behind - strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever’.
What do the Wilson’s say to the Joads after Granpa dies?
‘We’re proud to help. I ain’t felt so - safe in a long time’.
What two events are described as happening on Route 66 in Chapter 12?
Both ‘bitterly cruel’ and ‘beautiful’.
What do Mae and Al call the rich that barely tip in Chapter Fifteen?
“Shitheels”
What is Pa confused about the handbills in Chapter Sixteen?
‘It don’t make no sense. This fella wants eight hundred men. So he prints up five thousand of them things an’ maybe twenty thousan’ people sees ‘em’.
How does the narrator describe the building of these communities within migrant camps in Chapter Seventeen?
‘At first the families were timid in the building and tumbling worlds, but gradually the technique of building worlds became their technique’ - describes it as it were historical development.
What happens to families in the migrant traveller camps in Chapter Seventeen?
‘Twenty families became one family’
What are the migrant traveller camps likened to in Chapter Seventeen?
Small “worlds”.
