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The Grapes of Wrath
It should first be said that this passage does not refer to the Hudson River which, as it located in the eastern United States, is not prominent within the narrative. The "Hudson" in this passage...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Family is extremely important in The Grapes of Wrath and other novels by John Steinbeck. He is deeply concerned with the issues of individual alienation from society and of the harm caused by...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck employs a third-person, omniscient narrator to relay the story of the Joad family as they are forced to abandon their home in Oklahoma due to the Great...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In The Grapes of Wrath small farmers are presented as being at the mercy of the banks. The banks and other finance companies own the lion's share of the land on which the farmers work. With the...
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The Grapes of Wrath
For the most part, the members of the Joad family seem resigned to their fate in regards to their feelings toward leaving home and moving to California. None of them particularly want to leave, but...
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The Grapes of Wrath
To supplement effectively means to complete or add to, and in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, history and literature most definitely work together to create or complete the story being...
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The Grapes of Wrath
There are two metaphors in the given quotation which describe the Hudson truck. The first metaphor describes the truck as “the new hearth,” and the second metaphor describes it as, “the living...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Muley Graves is not one of the major characters in the novel, but he is a significant character nonetheless. He is significant because he helps to drive a part of the plot, and because he helps to...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck begins The Grapes of Wrath with a chapter that describes the land, the time period, and the way the people are displaced during the Great Depression. This opening chapter, like many of...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad continually expresses the idea that there is strength in family. One clear example of this is in Chapter 16 when Tom suggests that he and Jim Casy stay behind to get the truck fixed while...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The challenges of keeping a family together during the Great Depression is one of the most important themes in John Steinbeck’s novel. The Joad family often fails in this goal, but their...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The hitchhiker in question is Tom Joad, the protagonist of the story. At the beginning of the story, he is freshly paroled and is returning to his family and his father's 40 acres of land. While...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad, as an ex-prisoner, is by definition an outsider, and prejudice against his criminal record means that he always has to hide from the police in the novel.The episode of the camp in...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad finds out that Casy, whom he always thought was just a preacher, is actually a union organizer. Though Casy was indeed a preacher at first, he found it increasingly difficult to carry out...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In chapter 5 of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Joe Davis’s boy becomes a symbol of the changing times. Before, many men would be hired in order to work the land; however, now a tractor can...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is set during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. There is a famine because of poor agricultural techniques and a long drought, and there isn't much food...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath takes place during the Dust Bowl, when a drought, combined with the ways that conventional farming practices had devastated the soil ecosystem, led to massive dust storms that...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Both The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Class Matters (2005) deal heavily with the notion of class in contemporary America. However, they vary greatly in terms of form and approach. The Grapes of Wrath...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads wind up at Weedpatch camp, a government-sponsored facility where the migrants govern themselves. This spares them from having to worry about corrupt police officers, which are normally a...
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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
Tom Joad and Ma Joad come to the poignant realization that where they once were a single unit as a family, clearly defined geographically and economically, once they get out on the road and become...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The small farmers are tenant farmers, they do not own the land where they live and work. So, technically, they are powerless to fight against the tractors and the banks.The owners of the land...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The novel takes place during The Dust Bowl in the 1930s, which affected 2.5 million people in the Southern Plains region of the United States. It is one of the worst human-caused ecological...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is one of the first and arguably one of the best novels depicting The Great Depression. As a piece of history, The Great Depression is one of America's "Top 10" periods of...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The novel certainly advocates organized labor (unions/unionizing) and the promotes the rights of the labor class. These qualities align Steinbeck's novel with the values associated with communism...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 29 of The Grapes of Wrath is an "inner" chapter and, therefore, short and lyrical in style. It is also a Biblical-styled chapter, as it depicts the Great Flood that is used as counterpoint...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Perhaps the most famous example of compassion and indomitable spirit in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath appears in the novel’s final paragraph, in which Rose of Sharon, who has just lost...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Set in the 1930s, an era of massive economic collapse that affected all Americans that followed the hedonistic Roaring Twenties in which materialism and irresponsibility was de rigeur, The Grapes...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The farm in Oklahoma provides a sense of identity to the Joads, as homes usually do for the families that live in them. A home allows a person to say, "I belong here, I am from here, this is...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In order to write an essay on the main themes of Grapes of Wrath, you need to select one set of inter-related themes as a focus. Your thesis statement, which serves as a topic sentence for the...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel which is set during the great depression and follows the journey of the Joads, a family hit hard by the dust bowl who sells or packs all their belongings and seeks...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Lack of faith is a huge reason. They are in the midst of depression, and everything that can go wrong has. They are poor, angry, and just generally fed up with life. The fact that they must...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom feels that the man is being unfair, initially, then grows frustrated with the man's repeated question. As a refrain, the attendant asks what the world is coming to. When Casey offers an honest...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Uncle John is haunted by the death of his young wife many years before. They had been married only four months. She had been pregnant. When she complained of pain in her stomach, John dismissed it,...
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The Grapes of Wrath
This is an interesting question, as it's probably indicative of when and where the family ceases to become the kind of family it once was. The family meeting at the beginning of the novel has...
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The Grapes of Wrath
I assume you are asking for examples of hard work shown in the novel. There are many of those. Steinbeck wanted to show the readers how hard working the migrants were. The hardships of the trip...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Please check out the following link for an answer to this question: http://www.enotes.com/grapes-of-wrath/q-and-a/grapes-wrath-by-john-steinbeck-chapter-three-38481
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There are many symbols in the first chapter of Steinbeck's work that will come back in different forms throughout the novel. One of the most powerful symbols is the covering of the sky, blocking...
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The Grapes of Wrath
The intercalary chapters appear throughout The Grapes of Wrath in order to help the reader understand the greater scope of the time period. For example, chapter 1 gives the setting of the novel by...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Here are the main ideas in Chapters 17-21 of The Grapes of Wrath. Chapter 17 describes how the families traveling to find a better life camp along the road and become one large family. While they...
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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 original question had to be edited. One of the connections between the bank, the owners, the tractors, and their drivers is that they all are a part of the machinery that removes the farmers...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Casy says that profanity is necessary at times as a means of letting a person vent. Regarding sin, Casy comes to the conclusion that sin is just "things people do". This is a radical opinion for...
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The Grapes of Wrath
In Chapter Sixteen of The Grapes of Wrath, there are several literary devices at work: Figurative language Steinbeck describes the Joad and Wilson families as in flight across the Panhandle, a...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Mules are notoriously stubborn (hence the word "mulish"), and to be grave is to be serious. Graves are also directly related to death, so the name suggests someone who is stubborn, seriously so,...
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The Grapes of Wrath
"....There was the hills, an' there was me, an' we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. An' that one thing was holy." These words by Jim Casy echo those of Ralph Waldo Emerson who...
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The Grapes of Wrath
When assessing most work by Steinbeck, I think that the most powerful element that is present is the voice of the dispossessed. As eloquently, or perhaps even more than any other American writer,...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Certainly we can take lessons from The Grapes of Wrath just as we can take lessons from almost all literature. They may not be the lessons specifically intended by the author, but that is also...
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The Grapes of Wrath
At the start of the journey westward, the Joad family is intact: Grandpa, Grandma, Pa, Ma, Tom, Rose of Sharon and her husband, Noah, Al, Ruthie, and Winfield are all there. Before they are out of...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad, imprisoned for four years after being charged with manslaughter, learned a lot about life while he was locked up. These lessons impact his character and his way of looking at the world,...
