Chapter Six Flashcards
What reveals the ominous nature of the houses desertion?
The houses useful plank siding is still intact, revealing to Tom that the whole neighbourhood must be deserted.
Who do Tom and Casy meet?
Muley Graves who reveals the Joads have gone to their Uncle John’s house in order to migrate and pick cotton in California.
What does Muley Graves being alone reveal?
In resisting the mechanisation, loneliness will follow.
What does Muley’s refusal to leave reveal about farmers?
Their connection to the land is unbreakable.
It also highlights through Muley’s waning sanity that community is imperative.
How does Muley illustrate his connection to the land?
Remembers and described where his Father died in the dust and the grass where he first slept with a woman.
What happens after the three have eaten?
Police searchlights are seen looking for people tress-passing.
How does Tom react to the Police and what does this show?
Tom is still eager to resist the power and wants to put up a fight.
Muley combats this by enforcing the strength of the institutions and that is much better to just hide.
