key quotations - Tom Joad Flashcards
“sometimes a guy’ll be a good guy even if….
some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker” - Chapter 2
“you’re bound to get idears if….
you go thinkin’ about stuff” - Chapter 4
“what the hell you want to lead ‘em someplace for? ….
jus’ led ‘em” - Chapter 4
“hell, i forgot the turtle. I ain’t….
gonna pack it all over hell.” - Chapter 6
“he says wages is…
low an’ hard to get any” - Chapter 10
“the government’s got more interest in a dead man than a live one. They’ll….
go hell-scrapping tryin’ to fin’ out who he was and how he died.” - Chapter 13
“this here is William James Joad, dyed of a stroke, old old man. his folkes buried him because….
they got no money to pay for funerals. nobody killed him. jus a stroke and he dyed.” - Chapter 13
“i’m still layin’ my dogs down one at a time…..
I climb fences when I got fences when I got fences to climb”