The Grapes Of Wrath Flashcards
(41 cards)
AO1: Quotation on the erosion of the land that led to he Dust Bowl
“Surface of the earth crusted […] and the sky became pale”
- bleak image of land losing its vitality
AO1: Quotation on the banks
“The bank is something more than men […] it’s the monster”
AO1: Quotation on Muley
“Like a damn old graveyard ghost” - illustrates the importance of community
AO1: Quotation on the salesmen
“Salesmen, neat and deadly […] watching for weakness” - depend on farmers’ ignorance (moral atrophy)
AO1: Quotation on Ma’s role in the family
‘Citadel of the family’ - strength and willpower & subversion of patriarchal society
“If she swayed the family shook”
AO1: Quotation on starting again
“Maybe we can start again in the rich new land”
“But you can’t start only a baby can start”
- recognition of their generation being lost
AO1: Quotation on Casy’s progressive views on gender roles
“It’s womens work”, response : “it’s all work”
AO1: Quotation on childrens excitement to go to California
“Killin pigs an goin to California”
AO1: Quotation on loss of organic intimacy family once held for families like Joads
“Easy and efficient”
“Farming become industry”
“Chemists to test the soil” -land is now a scientific process
AO1: significance of Route 66
Biblical illusion yo the book of exodus - Moses leads the Israelites to safety “mother road”
“The highway became their home”
AO1: Quotation juxtaposing separate but equal idea
“It’s a free county”
AO1: Quotation on behaviour towards Okies as not completely negative
“Some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is retired forever” - behaviour towards okies does not represent a complete condemnation of the human race eg. Interaction with the Wilsons
AO1: Quotation on how migrants are determined to remain self sufficient
“We ain’t asked you for nothing”
AO1: Quotation on government interest
“ the government are more interested in a dead man than a live one”
AO1: Quotation on Steinbeck’s philosophy voiced by Ma
“For the quality of owning freezes you forget into i and cuts you off forever from the we”
- mankind’s greatest weakness is its ability to unite and strive for common good (landowners greed and fear blind them from this)
AO1: Quotation on time in government camps
“Golden time” - idealised ?
“Twenty families became one family”
“Building worlds”
AO1: Quotation on the illusion that is California
“This here’s California and she don’t look so prosperous”
AO1: Quotation on the treatment of Okies as other
“Them okies” … “they ain’t human”
AO1: Quotation on the hostility faced by the okies
“They had hoped to find a home and found only hatred”
- mets with hostility as their desperation threatens the comfort of those they encounter
- equate okies in the same way the southern states are equating colour
AO1: Quotation on the Hoovervilles
“ a great junk pile”
Lack of opportunity and scarcity of food makes it increasingly difficult to honour moral standards
AO1: Quotation on the effect of the hostility on the migrants
“They’re working away at out spirits”
“We take a beatin all the time” ma: “maybe that makes us tough”
- powerlessness illustrates the debilitating frustration that baseless oppression causes
“Hostility changed them, united them”
AO1: Quotation on desire of migrants for work
“Hungry for work, murderous for work”
AO1: the cycle of greed and extortion
The cycle of greed and extortion produces more desperate people, which suggests the cruel rich create the conditions that will lead to their own eventual downfall
AO1: Quotation on fear
“They’re scared we’ll organise” - groups more powerful than individuals
