Critics Flashcards
1
Q
McCrum: “the novel has…..
A
blood on its teeth”
2
Q
Yuhas: “Steinbeck’s monster banks still evict families and…..
A
indenture Americans in debt”
3
Q
Bloom: “Jim Casy is a secular Jesus Christ and his survivor, Tom Joad is…..
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a kind of St Paul of social rebellion”
4
Q
Bloom: “the women of the grapes of wrath are……
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stronger than the men”
5
Q
Shillingshaw: “anger is not Tom’s story not Casy’s story nor Steinbeck’s……..
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final response to a system that starves children”
6
Q
Bradbury: “a dream of an innocent pastoral America…….
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created by man’s desire for wonder”
7
Q
Jordison: “and even though the book was written in a rapid fury, …….
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it had had a long genesis”
8
Q
Steinbeck: “I’ve done my damndest to rip the reader’s nerves to rags……..
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I don’t want him satisfied”
