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Descriptions of okies

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‘They ain’t human, a human being wouldn’t live like they do’

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Men and women, building tension

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‘The men were silent…the women came…to feel whether this time the men would break’

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Turtles travels

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‘As the embankment grew steeper and steeper the more frantic were the efforts of the land turtle’

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Casy’s philosophy

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‘I figgered about the Holy Spirit… maybe it’s all men an all women we love… the human spirit’

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Banks and companies

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‘The bank or the company were a monster, with thought and feeling… the banks were machines and masters’

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Men and machinery

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‘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’

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When a man has food

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‘The fella ain’t got a choice’

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Manifest destiny

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‘Grampa took up the land and he had to kill Indians and drive them away’

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Ma

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‘The citadel of the family’

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Altruism

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‘It ain’t Kim we it’s will we’

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Machine man

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‘The machine man… he does not know and love, understands only chemistry’

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Prisons

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There’s… some pin screwy about whole idea a lockin people up’

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Family

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‘All we got us the family unbroke’

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Mexicans land stolen

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‘The waned nothing in the world as frantically as the Americans wanted land’

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Great companies cruelty

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‘The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line’

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Communist

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‘We are all reds’

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Smell of ferment

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‘The smell of ferment is not the rich odour of wine but the smell of decay and chemicals’

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Warmth

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‘How can one be warm alone’

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Rich control

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‘A guyll be good even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker’

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Sin and virtue

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‘There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue, there’s just stuff people do’

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66

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‘66 the mother round’ ‘the road of flight’

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Power in numbers

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This is the beginning- from i to we’

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Men needing jobs

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‘Men ravenous for work, murderous for work’

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Tractors movement

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‘Great crawlers like insects’

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Casy last words

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‘You don know what you’re doin’

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Last line

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‘Her lips came together and smiled mysteriously’

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Rich land in California

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‘New rich land-in California, where the fruit grows’

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Rich men need land to hide their insecurity

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‘If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems t me he needs it cause he feels awful poor inside hisself’

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Poor people

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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’

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Casy leader

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‘I got the call to lead people’

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Why people get angry

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‘It’s bein hurt that makes folks made to fight’

32
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Muley

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‘Like a graveyard ghost’

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Name Jesus

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Howl out the name of Jesus

34
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Souls hand

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All then peoples souls in my Han

35
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Reality of bible

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I know a bunch of stories

36
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Marx

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They breathe profits

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Burning bush

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Cas has been staring at the dying fire

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Lonely man

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A lone man like that don’t live long

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Ma eyes

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Experienced all possible tragedy

40
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Jesus and casy

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I got tired like him

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Communist land

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This red land is us

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Tree

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The willow tree is you

43
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Plants

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Plays were individuals not he mass of crop

44
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Infected

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Hurry infected all of them

45
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Ma throws things away

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Trinkets

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People flight

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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

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Rosasharn planetv

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ROS was the centre of it with Connie making a small orbit

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Sorrow child

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A coke born outta sorrowll be a happy chile

49
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Cell

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A cell is split

50
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Preacher is man

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A preacher ain’t nothing but a man

51
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Owners and okies

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The owners hated then because the owners knew they are soft and the okies were strong

52
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Repression

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Repression acts only to strengthen and knit the repressed

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God

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God never raised no wages

54
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Anger

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Anger began to ferment

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Indian man

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He looked big- as god

56
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Grape vines

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Ripe the grapes from the vine

57
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Rots

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The smell of rot fills the country

58
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Grapes of wrath

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In the souls of hw people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy growing heavy with the vintage

English Lit- Grapes Of Wrath (3 decks)

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