Quotes Flashcards
Descriptions of okies
‘They ain’t human, a human being wouldn’t live like they do’
Men and women, building tension
‘The men were silent…the women came…to feel whether this time the men would break’
Turtles travels
‘As the embankment grew steeper and steeper the more frantic were the efforts of the land turtle’
Casy’s philosophy
‘I figgered about the Holy Spirit… maybe it’s all men an all women we love… the human spirit’
Banks and companies
‘The bank or the company were a monster, with thought and feeling… the banks were machines and masters’
Men and machinery
‘The man sitting in the iron seat did not look like a man… he was a part of the monster, a robot in the seat’
When a man has food
‘The fella ain’t got a choice’
Manifest destiny
‘Grampa took up the land and he had to kill Indians and drive them away’
Ma
‘The citadel of the family’
Altruism
‘It ain’t Kim we it’s will we’
Machine man
‘The machine man… he does not know and love, understands only chemistry’
Prisons
There’s… some pin screwy about whole idea a lockin people up’
Family
‘All we got us the family unbroke’
Mexicans land stolen
‘The waned nothing in the world as frantically as the Americans wanted land’
Great companies cruelty
‘The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line’
Communist
‘We are all reds’
Smell of ferment
‘The smell of ferment is not the rich odour of wine but the smell of decay and chemicals’
Warmth
‘How can one be warm alone’
Rich control
‘A guyll be good even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker’
Sin and virtue
‘There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue, there’s just stuff people do’
66
‘66 the mother round’ ‘the road of flight’
Power in numbers
This is the beginning- from i to we’
Men needing jobs
‘Men ravenous for work, murderous for work’
Tractors movement
‘Great crawlers like insects’
Casy last words
‘You don know what you’re doin’
Last line
‘Her lips came together and smiled mysteriously’
Rich land in California
‘New rich land-in California, where the fruit grows’
Rich men need land to hide their insecurity
‘If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems t me he needs it cause he feels awful poor inside hisself’
Poor people
‘If you’re in trouble or hurt or need- go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help’
Casy leader
‘I got the call to lead people’
Why people get angry
‘It’s bein hurt that makes folks made to fight’
Muley
‘Like a graveyard ghost’
Name Jesus
Howl out the name of Jesus
Souls hand
All then peoples souls in my Han
Reality of bible
I know a bunch of stories
Marx
They breathe profits
Burning bush
Cas has been staring at the dying fire
Lonely man
A lone man like that don’t live long
Ma eyes
Experienced all possible tragedy
Jesus and casy
I got tired like him
Communist land
This red land is us
Tree
The willow tree is you
Plants
Plays were individuals not he mass of crop
Infected
Hurry infected all of them
Ma throws things away
Trinkets
People flight
The people in flight from the terror behind- strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refined forever
Rosasharn planetv
ROS was the centre of it with Connie making a small orbit
Sorrow child
A coke born outta sorrowll be a happy chile
Cell
A cell is split
Preacher is man
A preacher ain’t nothing but a man
Owners and okies
The owners hated then because the owners knew they are soft and the okies were strong
Repression
Repression acts only to strengthen and knit the repressed
God
God never raised no wages
Anger
Anger began to ferment
Indian man
He looked big- as god
Grape vines
Ripe the grapes from the vine
Rots
The smell of rot fills the country
Grapes of wrath
In the souls of hw people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy growing heavy with the vintage
