Key quotes Grapes of Wrath Flashcards
“every moving thing
lifted dust into the air”
when Tom is hitchhiking - “I’m thinking of taking one of those
correspondence courses. Then I won’t drive no truck. Then I’ll tell other guys to drive trucks”
Land turtle (2)
- “plodding restlessly”
- “flipped the turtle like a tiddlywink”
“got a lot of sinful
ideas, but they seem kinda sensible”
Casy always thought Tom was
“a godless man”
the Joad’s house in Oklahoma
“small unpainted house was slumped”
Bank Monster - “lots of families
in the East would like to own a piece of land”
IC - “you know the land is
poor. You’ve scrabbled at it for long enough”
Muley
“i’ll be around until hell freezes over”
Casy to Muley
“you shouldn’t of broke up the fambly”
Chapter 7 car salesman
“God, if only I could have a hundred jalopies. I don’t care if they work or not”
“Guarantee?
We guaranteed it to be an automobile” (C7)
Pa about Ma
“almost she don’t want to go to California, fear she’ll never see you no more”
what chapter is Ma the “citadel”
C8
IC - “maybe we can start again in the rich
new land. But you can’t. Only a baby can start”
when the Joads leave, they say
“the whole country is empty”
when the Joads leave in C10, what does Grampa say?
“come time we get to California I’ll have a big bunch of grapes in my hand”
Tractors IC 11
“there is a warmth of life in the barn … but when the motor of a tractor stops, it is dead”
66
“66 is the path of people in flight”
“the mother road”
cars on 66
“cars limping along 66 like wounded things”
Joad’s dog
“a blot of blood and tangled, burst intestines, kicked slowly in the road”
who dies in C13
the dog and Grampa
what does Grandma say when Grampa is dying
“Pray Goddamn you!” to Casy
“Grampa didn’t die tonight.
He died the minute you took him off the place”
“the land company - that’s the bank
wants tractors, not families on the land”
“people says
they steal”
Rest stop on 66 - “the boys edged in
and they went immediately to the candy case and stared in with a kind of wonder”
Pies
Mae tells one customer it’s banana and then another “pineapple cream”
“the highway
became their home”
Casy says “the whole
country is moving”
Car dealership C16
“great pile of junk”
“one-eyed man”
“thin, dirty, oily skin tight against stringy muscles”
“they were not farm
men anymore, but migrant men”
IC - “the country’s
spoilt. Maybe we sinned”
Pa - “this here’s California,
and she don’t look so prosperous”
“Okie means
you’re scum”
“they’re so Goddamn
dumb they don’t know it’s dangerous”
“they hoped to find a home
and they only found hatred”
“a gold
rush for work”
“they’re as dangerous
as n- in the south!”
“about the camp
there hung a slovenly despair”
Floyd to Al
“you better get used to a jalopy, cause you ain’t going to drive no 16”
“they reassured themselves that
they were good and the invaders bad”
wine - “the anger
began to ferment”
government camp - “folks here
elect their own cops”
Tom - “Ma’s gonna like this place.
she ain’t been treated decent for a long time”
Mr Thomas - “Mr Bank
hires two thousand men and I hire three”
Ma - “I want
a little house”
“there’s wickedness
in that camp. the poor is trying to be rich”
“the smell
of rot fills the country”
Casy says - “you’ve got
no right to starve people” and then a man responds by calling him a “red son-of-a-bitch”
“cars piling in
drawn by the handbills”
last line
“she looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously”
