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The Grapes of Wrath
There are certainly lots of references to eyes in the story. Through the eyes of his characters, Steinbeck shows us the experiences of working-class Americans during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s....
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The Grapes of Wrath
In both A Farewell to Arms and The Grapes of Wrath, the traditional roles of men are abandoned by demoralized men; consequently, the women assume the roles of healers and leaders as they adapt to...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad of The Grapes of Wrath and Catherine of A Farewell to Arms are similar in their beliefs in the power of love and in their inner strength in the face of tragedy. However, they differ in...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Grampa has a stroke when the family stops and joins with the Wilsons in Chapter 13. Sairy Wilson helps care for Grampa and Granma while they are suffering, thus the Joads and Wilson become like a...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Your question specifies the movie adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, but the Steinbeck novel on which it is based addresses the same relationship between people and their land. Land is important to...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Through different characters in The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck shows how individuals can take action in order to confront social injustice. Steinbeck portrays a world in The Grapes of Wrath that is...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Casy's beliefs and actions paint him as Christ-like socialist messiah. Casy embraces tenets of socialism in how he speaks for those who are economically challenged. Through his teachings, he...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The whole of the first chapter is one of Steinbeck's intercalary chapters that describes the great dust storm of 1934. So, naturally, the word "dust" dominates the chapter. Some of the most...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The depiction of "common people" in the face of institutional unfairness is one way that Social Realism is used in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Social Realism focused on accurately depicting...
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The Grapes of Wrath
One of the ways The Great Depression upsets the traditions and expectations of the Joad family — and many other families — is through gender roles. Pa says this line as a bit of a joke about...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 15 can be considered cinematic because it provides an overview of the social situation during the Great Depression, and the exhibition of charity to the migrants appeals to the human...
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The Grapes of Wrath
This description of Tom's mother occurs about one-third of the way into Chapter 8. Open up to Chapter 8 in your copy of the novel, and go ahead and skip past a few pages. Now start skimming,...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads have a firm belief in family. Ma Joad especially fights hard to keep the family together. As long as they can all get to California as a family, they will manage to survive. She maintains...
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The Grapes of Wrath
There are many instances of irony in this novel, mostly related to the main theme, man's humanity and inhumanity towards his fellow man. In Chapter 13 we see an example of irony when Tom is...
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The Grapes of Wrath
There's sort of an old truism about the distinction between those who earn their living performing manual labor and those who sit at desks and stare at computer screens, or perform other types of...
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History
The Grapes of Wrath made a significant impact on the way Americans viewed the victims of the Dust Bowl. The book was published in the spring of 1939. The severe drought that contributed largely...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck portrays the landowners in both Oklahoma and California as self-serving and callous. Their main interest is to make a profit from their crops. Their attitude toward the migrant workers is...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In the beginning of the novel, the grandparents of the Joad family are present, yet their leadership is being transferred onto the next generation. Grandpa eventually refuses to go with the family...
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The Grapes of Wrath
When the Joad family first comes together to discuss their move to California, the Joads still respect Grampa Joad's seniority; he is the patriarch of the family. However, Grampa's health...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Different characters deal with the uncertainties of the past in different ways, depending on what their hopes of the future are. Jim Casy has left his past as a preacher, seeking some other meaning...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad's power in The Grapes of Wrath is in the strength of his character. It is shown in his ability to adapt, change when necessary, inspire others, and expand the circle of those he cares for...
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The Grapes of Wrath
One of the main lessons that we see taught throughout the book is that generosity can come in all forms, and that even in your own darkest hour, generosity can be the most powerful thing you can...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath has many different messages about humanity laced through it, so to argue that Steinbeck had any one view might be too limited. However, looking at some of the themes of the book...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Grandpa Joad, along with Connie and Rose of Sharon, believes that all their wildest hopes and dreams will be satisfied once they get to California. Connie wants to study to work in radio...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The deaths of Grandpa (soon after the Joad family left home) and Grandma (as they crossed into California) are understandable. Not only are they weakened by age, but their spirits remain back in...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad begins the story as an ex-convict who was sent to prison for killing a man who attacked him. He was released early for good behavior. His short sentence was perhaps an injustice, since he...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Church is seen as an important part of the community and family life, regardless of one’s personal faith or belief in God. All of the members of the Joad family attend church, though it is only...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Joad family’s journey from their home in Oklahoma to California is forced upon them when their home is taken over by the bank. Though the road is long, it is paved, with plenty of habitations...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Despair seems to be the foundation on which the Joad family finds their lives built. After generations on the landing, living and dying on it, they are pushed off as if it never belonged to them...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom's philosophy changes in recognizing that mere survival does not represent what he wants out of life. This change results from his work with Casy and internalizing Casy's teachings into his own...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In order to understand Jim Casy's philosophy of life, we have to first know that he was a preacher in his former life. He may have left the ministry (because he had sinful thoughts, as he said),...
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The Grapes of Wrath
When Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath, his intentions were to draw attention to the plight of the migrant American worker. He witnessed first hand the deplorable conditions that many of these...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a very long book that offers many questions. So it is difficult to pinpoint a single question, and to have everyone agree on what it is. In light of this, let me offer a few...
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The Grapes of Wrath
What has been stated above is correct about the period going on the outside of the parentheses only. If you have written she said as the words to introduce the quotation, these two words should...
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Literature
Ma Joad is the moral force that holds together her family, and at times she displays great weariness from the burden. Nevertheless, as the matriarch, it is she who keeps the Joads together and...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Sensory language describes the setting and other elements using the five senses. Imagery refers to specific sensory details that describe in detail. This descriptive language uses the five senses...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck might be suggesting that the search for the Promised Land is a part of what it means to be human. Certainly, there are religious overtones to this search. There are definite religious...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is set in one of the most tumultuous times and places in American history. The country was in the midst of an economic crisis, the Great Depression of the...
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The Grapes of Wrath
I think that Steinbeck would reject any one person being seen as without honor. The condition of the Great Depression and economic hardship made so many people have to resort to savage means of...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Called a "naturalistic epic," The Grapes of Wrath chronicles the collision of the displaced from the Dust Bowl against the economic force of capitalism in the form of the banks that have expelled...
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck, at the end of chapter 25 of The Grapes of Wrath, the following quote is found: "In the souls of the people The Grapes of Wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad and Tom Joad figure as the two most important members of the family, one as the matriarch who strives to hold together the family unit, and the other as an individual who acquires a growing...
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The Grapes of Wrath
As a writer of Social Realism, a movement that depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The chapters located between the Joads' story are called "intercalary" chapters, and they remind us that this is a story bigger than one family. These chapters in The Grapes of Wrath by John...
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is full of many good and moral characters as well as many evil and corrupt ones; deciding which he prefers is a matter of examination and your own...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Within chapter 12, Steinbeck's detailing of the perseverance of the migrant farmer is evident. There is a resiliency and strength that the migrant farmer displays in chapter 12. While there are...
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is set in the 1930s in the midst of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Life is hard for the Joad family before they get evicted from their land and begin...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Jim Casy is a kind of Christ figure in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath; though he was once a "real" preacher, he is closest to living out his faith when he gives that up and starts living to...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In his essay, The Oversoul, the great 19th century American, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes of the qualities of man's soul, one of which is that it is connected to that of other men: ...that...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The list of literary devices used in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a long one, but here are just a few examples. Literary devices are forms of figurative language, also known as figures of...
