The Grapes of Wrath ALL Flashcards
Hughes
“Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier”
Spangler
“Steinbeck has smashed the notions of the American dream”
Malcolm Cowley
“What one remembers most of all is Steinbeck’s sympathy for the migrants.”
Mark Twain
“Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream it is the foundation of it.”
Peter Monroe Jack
“While they work they live in what might as well be called concentration camps.”
“Family’s…”
“Family’s here.” - Ma
“Okie…”
“Okie means you’re scum.” - Man in pool C18
“She walked…”
“She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family.” - C13
“Twenty…”
“Twenty families became one family.” - C17
“We’ll have…”
“We’ll have a place, little bit of a place.” - Rose Of Sharon C16
“For your…”
“For your three dollars a day fifteen or twenty families can’t eat at all.” - Tractor driver C5
“muscles…”
“muscles aching to work, minds aching to create”
“We’re…”
“We’re Joads. We don’t look up to nobody. “
“Ma looked to…”
“Ma looked to Tom to speak, because he was a man“
“The men…”
“The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled“
'’Jus’ let me…”
'’Jus’ let me get out to California where I can pick me an orange when I want it. Or grapes. There’s a thing I ain’t never had enough of. Gonna get me a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush, or whatever, an’ I’m gonna squash ‘em on my face an’ let ‘em run offen my chin.’’
“Pea pickers…”
“Pea pickers wanted in California. Good wages all season. 800 pickers wanted.”
“If he needs…”
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ‘cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich.”
“He done somepin…”
“He done somepin to me, made me feel mean. Made me feel ashamed. An’ now I ain’t ashamed. These folks is our folks—is our folks.” - Ma on the Police
“Why…”
“Why, I feel like people again.” - Ma on the Weedpatch
