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Grapes Of Wrath Quotes Flashcards

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The truck driver- Chapter 2

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Mechanical engineering. It’s easy. Just study a few easy lessons at home. I’m thinkin’ of it. Then I won’t drive no truck. Then I’ll tell other guys to drive trucks.

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Casey’s religion- Chapter 4

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Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.

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Tractors working the land- Chapter 5

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raping methodically, raping without passion

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Tractor driver- Joe Davis’ boy- Chapter 5

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We got to eat. Three dollars a day, and it comes every day.

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A man’s property- Chapter 5

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If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it’s part of him, and it’s like him.

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Muley Graves’ catchphrase- Chapter 6

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I’m jus’ wanderin’ around’ like a damn ol’ graveyard ghos’

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Salesmen in Chapter 7

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Salesmen, neat, deadly, small intent eyes watching for weaknesses.

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Old cars being sold in Chapter 7

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Piles of rusty ruins against the fence

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Introduction to Ma- Chapter 8

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She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone.

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Grampa describing what he’s gonna do when they get to California- Chapter 8

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Gonna get me a whole big bunch a grapes off a bush, or whatever, an’ I’m gonna squash ‘em on my face ‘an let ‘em run offen my chin.

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How does TJ get the lorry driver to give him a lift in Chapter 2?

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“…sometimes a guy’ll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker.”

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How did the Joads feel on the road to California?

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And now they [the Joads] were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them.

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What does Casy say about souls?

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“Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.” (4.41)

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What does Casy think about hope for the USA workers?

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“They’s gonna come a thing that’s gonna change the whole country.” (16.111)

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What does Casy think about rich guys?

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“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ‘cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich.” (18.90)

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How are Ma’s eyes described in Chapter 8?

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Her hazel eyes seemed to have experienced all possible tragedy and to have mounted pain and suffering like steps into a high calm and a superhuman understanding. (8.40)

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What does Ma know about her responsibility to hold the family together?

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She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone. (8.40).

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How does Ma view the generosity of those less well off?

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If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” (26.529)

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Does Muley want to go to California?

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There wasn’t nothin’ to eat, but I couldn’t leave. Somethin’ just wouldn’t let me.

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How does Muley view himself?

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And me, I’m just an old graveyard ghost. That’s all in the world I am.

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What is Muley kidding himself about?

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I used to tell myself that I was lookin’ out for things so that when the folks come back everything’d be all right. But I know’d it wasn’t true

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How does Connie try to stay close to Rose of Sharon?

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“Whenever he could, he put a hand on her stood close, so that his body touched her at hip and shoulder, and he felt that this kept a relation that might be departing” (10.46).

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How is Connie described?

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He drank enough, but not too much; fought when it was required of him; and never boasted. (8.46)

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How is Connie described in relation to others?

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He sat quietly in a gathering and yet managed to be there and to be recognized. (8.46)

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How has Rose of Sharon changed now she is pregnant?

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she was all secrets now she was pregnant, secrets and little silences that seemed to have meanings. She was pleased with herself, and she complained about things that didn’t really matter. (13.52)

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How Rose of Sharon speak, now that’s she’s pregnant?

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'’I ain’t very thirsty…but maybe I ought to drink.’’

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What is Rose of Sharon’s idea of her own small American Dream?

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well, when the baby comes, maybe he’ll be all done studyin’ an’ we’ll have a place, little bit of a place.

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How is the patriarchal family structure shown in Chapter 1?

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The women knew it was all right, and the watching children knew it was all right. Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole. (1.10)

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How do the tenant farmers react when the owners have just left from telling them they must move from the land?

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They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on the people he loves. They left the men alone to figure and to wonder in the dust. (5.37)

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Who talks to the owner men when they visit the farm?

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The women and the children watched their men talking to the owner men. They were silent. (5.2)

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How does Ma react when JC offers to help her pack food for the journey to California?

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And [Ma Joad’s] hands were crusted with salt, pink with fluid from the fresh pork. “It’s women’s work,” she said finally. (10.141)

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What does Ma say about emotional expression/sentimentality?

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[Ma Joad:] “Besides, us folks takes a pride holdin’ in. My pa used to say, ‘Anybody can break down. It takes a man not to.’ We always try to hold in.” (13.213)

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What does Casy say about sin and virtue in Chapter 4?

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“Before I knowed it, I was sayin’ out loud, ‘The hell with it! There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing.’” (4.35)

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Why is JC not a preacher anymore?

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“Just Jim Casy now. Ain’t got the call no more. Got a lot of sinful idears – but they seem kinda sensible.” (4.15)

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How is JC disillusioned at the beginning of the novel?

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“Here I got the sperit sometimes an’ nothin’ to preach about. I got the call to lead people, an’ no place to lead ‘em.” (4.25)

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Why does JC think he could be helpful on the road?

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“Maybe I can preach again. Folks out lonely on the road, folks with no lan’, no home to go to. They got to have some kind of home.” (6.108)

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What does JC think is holy?

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“All that’s holy, all that’s what I didn’ understan’. All them things is the good things.” (10.39)

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What does TJ think about prison?

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You eat regular, an’ get clean clothes, and there’s places to take a bath. It’s pretty nice some ways.

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What story does TJ tell about someone he met in jail?

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They was a guy paroled,” he said. “‘Bout a month he’s back for breakin’ parole. A guy ast him why he bust this parole. ‘Well, hell,’ he says. ‘They got no conveniences at my old man’s place. Got no ‘lectric lights, got no shower baths. There ain’t no books, an’ the food’s lousy.’” (4.67)

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How do the tenant farmers want to deal with the banks?

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[a tenant farmer:] “But where does it stop? Who can we shoot? I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.” (5.64)

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How does the reader get to know TJ’s violent/decisive side?

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[Tom Joad:] “‘But, hell, if I seen Herb Turnbull comin’ for me with a knife right now, I’d squash him down with a shovel again.” (6.100)

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What crimes to the starving migrants resort to?

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At night the frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts and carried off the squawking chickens. If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in the mud. (29.16)

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What were the starving and unemployed migrants forced into doing?

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Then the hungry men crowded the alleys behind the stores to beg for bread, to beg for rotting vegetables, to steal when they could. (29.11)

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Why are farmers angry with their neighbours becoming tractor drivers?

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“That’s right,” the tenant said. “But for your three dollars a day fifteen or twenty families can’t eat at all. Nearly a hundred people have to go out and wander on the roads for your three dollars a day. Is that right?” (5.49)

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How are the tractor drivers encouraged to hurt their neighbours?

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[the tractor driver:] “I got orders wherever there’s a family not moved out – if I have an accident – you know, get too close and cave the house in a little – well, I might get a couple of dollars. And my youngest kid never had no shoes yet.” (5.57)

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What do the migrants think about business?

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[a disgruntled migrant worker:] “Fella in business got to lie an’ cheat, but he calls it somepin else. You go steal that tire an’ you’re a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.” (12.31)

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How does the car salesman show his selfishness?

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[a disgruntled migrant worker:] “Fella in business got to lie an’ cheat, but he calls it somepin else. You go steal that tire an’ you’re a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.” (12.31)

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How does Sairy Wilson think of the group?

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[Sairy Wilson:] “You shouldn’t talk like that. We’re proud to help. I ain’t felt so – safe in a long time. People needs – to help.” (13.210)

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how does Ma show she has learnt to help other?

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[Ma Joad:] “I’m learning one thing good,” she said. “Learnin’ it all the time, ever’ day. If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” (26.529)

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What is the bank?

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The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it. (5.24)

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What does the bank want?

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If a bank or finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank – or the Company – needs – wants – insists – must have – as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. (5.3)

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What will happen to the bank if it doesn’t get money?

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We can’t depend on it. The bank – the monster – has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size. (5.11)

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From “I” to “we”

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For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I,” and cuts you off forever from the “we.” (14.4)

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What does JC say about leaving the farm?

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“Fella gets use’ to a place, it’s hard to go,” said Casy. “Fella gets use’ to a way of thinkin’ it’s hard to leave.” (6.72)

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What do the tenant farmers say about time and memory?

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[tenant farmers:] But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can’t start again. (9.10)

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How are Californians anxious?

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The Western land, nervous under the beginning change. The Western States, nervous as horses before a thunder storm. The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of the nature of the change. (14.1)

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What does Casy prophesies?

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[Casy:] “They’s gonna come somepin outa all these folks goin’ wes’ – outa all their farms lef’ lonely. They’s gonna come a thing that’s gonna change the whole country.” (16.111)

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What do the Joads get told about the term “Okies”?

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[the man swimming in the Colorado River:] “Well, Okie use’ ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you’re a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you’re scum.” (18.72)

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How do the car salesmen sell their cars- what do they say to the migrants?

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[used car salesman:] “Goin’ to California? Here’s jus’ what you need. Looks shot, but they’s thousan’s of miles in her.” (7.53)

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What does the man in Colorado say is unattainable for the Js?

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[the man swimming in the Colorado River:] “Sure, nice to look at, but you can’t have none of it. They’s a grove of yella oranges – an’ a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one.” (18.77)

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How does Steinbeck describe the crops in California?

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All California quickens with produce, and the fruit grows heavy, and the limbs bend gradually under the fruit so that little crutches must be placed under them to support the weight. (25.2)

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When do the family pull together?

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And then all of a sudden, the family began to function. (10.114)

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How does Granma react to Grampa’s death?

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She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family. (13.169)

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What happens to the family in the aftermath of Grampa’s death?

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The family became a unit […] Pa was the head of the family now. (13.172)

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How do the family adapt to life on the road?

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The families moved westward, and the technique of building the worlds improved so that the people could be safe in their worlds; and the form was so fixed that a family acting in the rules knew it was safe in the rules. (17.10)

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What is migrant society like on the road?

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At first the families were timid in the building and tumbling worlds, but gradually the technique of building worlds became their technique. Then leaders emerged, then laws were made, then codes came into being. And as the worlds moved westward they were more complete and better furnished, for their builders were more experienced in building them. (17.3)

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How do the migrant families become one?

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In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream. (17.2)

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How do the Js set up their camp on the road?

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Each member of the family grew into his proper place, grew into his duties; so that each member, old and young, had his place in the car; so that in the weary, hot evenings, when the cars pulled into the camping places, each member had his duty and went to it without instruction (17.14)

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At the end of the novel, how does the boy describe his father?

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[the little boy in the barn:] “Says he wasn’t hungry, or he jus’ et. Give me the food. Now he’s too weak. Can’t hardly move.” (30.206)

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What is Ma’s last comment about family in the last chapter of the novel?

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[Ma Joad:] “Use’ ta be the family was fust. It ain’t so now. It’s anybody.” (30.48)

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