Grapes Of Wrath -Quotations

Question 1

What is the quote in chapter 1 describing the dust bowls ?

Answer 1

Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air

Question 2

What is the quote said by ma Joad in chapter 10 as she expresses her nerves to tom? Foreshadowing the later devastating events pioneered by the move to California ( a catalyst)?

Answer 2

I’m scared of stuff so nice. I ain’t got faith

Question 3

What is the quote in chapter 16 where the Ragged man attempts to warn everyone that there’s no work and that he has given up hope and going home ?

Answer 3

Took two kids dead, took my wife dead to show me

Question 4

What is the quote in chapter 16 showing new social order and norms as they look at each other for comfort giving a sense of community from farmers to men always on the move ?

Answer 4

They were not farm men anymore but migrant men

Question 5

What is the quote in chapter 28 said by Winfield to ma saying Ruthie told about Tom killing a man?

Answer 5

Ma—Ruthie tol

Question 6

At is the quote in chapter 4 said by him Casey which denounced religion and proves ironic regarding his initials and his sacrifice later in the novel ?

Answer 6

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do

Question 7

What is the quote in chapter 5 regarding the banks

Answer 7

“We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man