The Grapes Of Wrath, Quotes chapters and Themes Flashcards
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Chapter One The Great Migration
The sky..
Became so pale, so the earth became pale’
Chapter One The Great Migration
Ruined..
Corn
Chapter One The Great Migration
The people came out of their houses and…
smelled the hot stinging air
Chapter Two The truck Journey- Individualism
They ain’t..
been tractored out yet
Chapter Two The truck journey- individualism
His eyes were..
Dark brown, his cheekbones were high and wide
Chapter two- individualism
A forty acre chopper
and he ain’t been dusted out
Chapter 3- The land Turtle- symbolism of the Joads journey, victimised by the hostile environment
The driver saw the
Turtle and swerved to hit it
Chapter 3- the land turtle
The concrete highway was…
edged with a mat of tangled, broken dry grass
Chapter 4- religion
I’d take one of them girls out in the grass, an’ I’d lay with her..
Then I’d feel bad, and I’d pray and pray but it didn’t do no good, I’d do it again
Chapter 4 religion
The human spirit…
the whole shebang, maybe all men got one big soul everybody’s part of
Chapter 5- Tenants vs Owners
‘No one could be an owner..
Unless they were cold
Chapter 5- Tenant vs owner
As though the bank..
or company was a monster
Chapter 6- Muley Graves, destruction of Joad house
‘They ain’t whole…
out lonely on the road
Chapter 6- Muley Graves, destruction of Joad house
The small, unpainted [Joad] house was mashed at one corner…
and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it’s slumped at an angle
Chapter 7- Salesman- dehumanisation on migrants
‘Todays bargain…
Never sell it
Chapter 7- Salesman, dehumanisation of migrants
Watch the woman’s face…
If the women likes it we can screw the old man
Chapter 8- Tom and family reunited, community
She seemed to accept her position..
The citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken
Chapter 8- community, Ma Joad
Ma was heavy but not..
fat thick with child bearing and work
Chapter 9- Loss of dignity, tenants decide which belongings can be sold
‘ maybe we can start again in..
The new rich land, in California where the fruit grows we will start over
Chapter 9- loss of dignity
This land, this red land…
us and the flood, dust and drought years are us
Chapter 10- The journey from innocence to awareness
The houses were dead and the fields were dead…
but this truck was the active thing’
Chapter 10
Ma looked to Tom to speak…
because he was a man but Tom did not speak
Chapter 11- Tractors work the desolate land
The houses were..
vacant on the land
Chapter 11
So easy that the wonder goes out of work…
so efficient
