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Quotations Grapes of wrath Flashcards

1
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Our people got nothing but because they can ask their friends

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(…)makes them proud

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2
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They dance together:

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Swing to the left swing to the right

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3
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Got five men looking over the gate login over the folks

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Try spit them before the git started

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4
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It’s goddamn lucky we got the word that

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They was gunna bust up the dance

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5
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Men had on their best clothes,

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Freshly washed overalls, clean blue shirts

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6
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The people were

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Intent and excited

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7
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If they can get a fight going

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Then they can run the cops an say we ain’t orderly

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8
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Open up

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We hear you have a riot

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9
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We don’t need warrant if

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There’s a riot

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10
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Well, we ain’t

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Got no riots here

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11
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Don’t knife your own folks

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Yore just harming yourself

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12
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Been going to the wilderness like Jesus

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To try find sompin out

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13
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Well they was nice fellas ya see

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What made em bad was they needed stuff

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14
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We all got to yellin (…)

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Then something happened! They came a runnin and they gave us some other stuff to eat

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15
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Folks is their

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Own cops

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16
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We can’t last much longer

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Some people ain’t ate for to days

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17
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Cops cause more trouble than

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They stop

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18
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Think pa’s gonna give up his

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Meat for another fella?

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19
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Think ma’s gonna wants starve that baby just because

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A bunch a fellas is yellin outside?

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20
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Doing it because

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You have to

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21
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Nervous as a cat

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We’re all nurvous

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22
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Hate to

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Leave my tent

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23
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Shut up you red

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Son of a bitch

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24
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You don’t know what

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You’re a doing

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25
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The crushing blow

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Found the head

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26
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A Men’s gotta live before they

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Can afford to die

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27
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‘Me i don’t know where

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I’m goin’

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28
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‘They got to live before

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They can afford to die’ JC

29
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‘Fella should maybe keep stuff like that in his head’ who said it?

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Jim Casey

30
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‘I guess every time pa seen writing

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Somebody took something away from him’

31
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‘Ma was heavy, but not fat

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Thick with child, barring work’

32
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‘Her face was not soft, it was

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Controlled calmly’

33
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‘She seemed to know that if she swayed,

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The whole family shook’

34
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‘Tommy don’t you go

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Fighting them alone’

35
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‘Granma who only survived

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Because she was mean to her husband’

36
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‘Maybe we can start again,

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In the new rich land’

37
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‘But you can’t start only a baby can start. You and me

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Why were all that’s been’

38
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Tom watched her working,

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And his eyes smiled’

39
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‘Her whole thought and action were directed inward on the baby’ who is this about?

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Rosharn

40
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‘The barrier of loneliness cut

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Uncle John off from people and appetites’

41
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Al- ‘aren’t you scairt it won’t be

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Nice like we thought?’

42
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‘Countries movin’ aroun’ goin’ places

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There’s folks dying all around’ (guy at the petrol station)

43
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‘Granma moved with dignity and held her head high.

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She walked for the family’

44
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‘The government got more interest in a dead man

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Than an alive man’ -Tom

45
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‘Anyone can break down

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It takes a man not to’

46
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‘The hoards crawled

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Forward as a unit’

47
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‘Pa was amazed at

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The revolt’

48
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‘She was power, she had

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Taken control’

49
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‘All we got is family

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Unbroke’

50
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‘One person with their minds made up

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Can shove a lot of folks around’

51
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‘The wills thrust westward

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And fears lingered with anything that may stop the westward crawling’

52
Q

‘This here’s California and she doesn’t look so

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Prosperous’

53
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‘At least we can starve to death

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With folks we know’

54
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‘Oakie used to mean you was from Oklahoma

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Now it means you’re a dirty son of a bitch’

55
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‘If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich then it seems to me

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He needs it because he feels awful poor inside’

56
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‘’She’s flighty as a dog

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With a flea in its ear’

57
Q

‘She wasn’t scairt

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Of nothing’

58
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‘Her face was stif

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And putty like’

59
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‘The family looked at ma with a

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Little terror at her strenghth’

60
Q

‘Who’s really seeing it is

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Ruthie and winfel’

61
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‘The truck rolled

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Down the mountain’

62
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‘A fella eats well in

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Jail’

63
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‘If I’d have know it would have been like this

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I wouldn’t have come’

64
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‘ you get a hold of ya self

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You’re a feelin sorry for ya self’

65
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‘Well if ya see a young snot nose name Connie

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Looks a bit like a coyote tell I’m go to hell’

66
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‘They’re working away

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At our spirits’

67
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‘Tom blew his nose out the window and

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Wiped his eyes on his sleeve’

68
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‘Those folks in the camp are getting

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Used to being treated like humans’

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