Key quotes Grapes of Wrath Flashcards
(52 cards)
“every moving thing
lifted dust into the air”
when Tom is hitchhiking - “I’m thinking of taking one of those
correspondence courses. Then I won’t drive no truck. Then I’ll tell other guys to drive trucks”
Land turtle (2)
- “plodding restlessly”
- “flipped the turtle like a tiddlywink”
“got a lot of sinful
ideas, but they seem kinda sensible”
Casy always thought Tom was
“a godless man”
the Joad’s house in Oklahoma
“small unpainted house was slumped”
Bank Monster - “lots of families
in the East would like to own a piece of land”
IC - “you know the land is
poor. You’ve scrabbled at it for long enough”
Muley
“i’ll be around until hell freezes over”
Casy to Muley
“you shouldn’t of broke up the fambly”
Chapter 7 car salesman
“God, if only I could have a hundred jalopies. I don’t care if they work or not”
“Guarantee?
We guaranteed it to be an automobile” (C7)
Pa about Ma
“almost she don’t want to go to California, fear she’ll never see you no more”
what chapter is Ma the “citadel”
C8
IC - “maybe we can start again in the rich
new land. But you can’t. Only a baby can start”
when the Joads leave, they say
“the whole country is empty”
when the Joads leave in C10, what does Grampa say?
“come time we get to California I’ll have a big bunch of grapes in my hand”
Tractors IC 11
“there is a warmth of life in the barn … but when the motor of a tractor stops, it is dead”
66
“66 is the path of people in flight”
“the mother road”
cars on 66
“cars limping along 66 like wounded things”
Joad’s dog
“a blot of blood and tangled, burst intestines, kicked slowly in the road”
who dies in C13
the dog and Grampa
what does Grandma say when Grampa is dying
“Pray Goddamn you!” to Casy
“Grampa didn’t die tonight.
He died the minute you took him off the place”
