The Grapes Of Wrath Quotations - My Version Flashcards
Tom’s famous speech (give 2 quotes)
. ‘I’ll be ever’where - wherever you look… I’ll be there’
. ‘Wherever theys a flight so hungry people can eat, ill be there’
Tom’s prison
‘I been in Mcalester. Been there four years’
(Not a quote) What does Tom loose and then begins to seem himself as?
Tom loses some of his ego (his sense of his own importance) and brashness, and begins to see himself as a part of a bigger and more meaningful whole
(Not a quote) what does Tom see himself of Casy and what does he continue
Tom becomes a ‘disciple’ of Casy, continuing his transcendentalist philosophy
(Not a quote) what does Tom become?
He becomes the manifestation of the workers’ movement which he hopes to help organise, in order to bring justice to the starving people in California
Casy’s sin line
‘There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do’
Casy oversoul
‘Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of’
Casy preaching
‘ain’t preachin’ no more much. The sperit ain’t in the people much no more’
Rich and poor
‘If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ‘cause he feels awful poor inside hisself’
Grandpa doesnt want to go
An’ I don’t give a goddamn if they’s oranges an’ grapes crowdin’ a fella outa bed even. I ain’t a-goin’.
Grandpa country
‘This country ain’t no good, but it’s my country’
Grandpa excited to leave
‘Sure will be glad to get out there. Got a feelin’ it’ll make a new fella outa me. Go right to work in the fruit’
When did Granpa die?
‘An’ Grandpa didn’ die tonight. He died the minute you took ‘im off the place’
Who won
‘Pa’s anger did not rise, and his hands hung limply at his sides. And in a moment the group knew Ma had won, and Ma knew it too’
What is not good?
‘It ain’t good for folks to break up’
What did Ma accept?
‘She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position’
What did ma take?
‘She was the power. She had taken control’
Family looked Ma
‘The family looked at Ma with a little terror in her strength’
What had Ma experienced?
She ‘seemed to have experienced all possible tragedy and to have mounted pain and suffering like steps into a high calm and a superhuman understanding’
Ma’s barrier
‘Retired into a resistance against weakness’
Who spoke?
‘Ma looked to Tom to speak, because he was a man’
The polic
The police made Ma ‘feel ashamed’
Who sung?
‘Men sang the words, and women hummed the tunes’
Men vs women
‘Time was when a man said what we’d do. Seems like women is tellin’ now’
Pa’s change
‘I ain’t no good anymore’
What did Pa loose
‘Losing the farm seems to “take somepin’ out of Old Tom’
In charge of the family
‘Woman takin’ over the fambly […] An’ I don’t even care’
Character building (not a quote)
Pa’s gradual breakdown serves as a sharp reminder that hardship does not always build character
How does Connie view Rose?
‘Connie was proud and fearful of Rose of Sharon’
What does Rose want?
‘I want Connie. I ain’t a-goin’ till he comes back’
How does Rose view the world
‘The world was pregnant to her; she only thought in terms of reproduction and of motherhood’
What does Rose do at the end?
‘Rose of Sharon loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast’
Beg for food
‘Then the hungry men crowded the alleys behind the stores to beg for bread, to beg for rotting vegetables, to steal when they could’
Guy on the tractor taking a wage
‘For your three dollars a day fifteen or twenty families can’t eat at all’
What can a baby do?
‘But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. We can’t start again.’
Oaklahoma slur
‘Okie means you’re scum’
What is the fruit doing?
‘All California quickens with produce, and the fruit grows heavy, and the limbs bend gradually under the fruit’
Community
‘The twenty families became one family’
Title of the book quote
‘The grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy’
Anger and poverty
‘The line between hunger and anger is a thin line’
Who will help?
‘Go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help’
