The Grapes Of Wrath, Quotes chapters and Themes Flashcards
Chapter One The Great Migration
The sky..
Became so pale, so the earth became pale’
Chapter One The Great Migration
Ruined..
Corn
Chapter One The Great Migration
The people came out of their houses and…
smelled the hot stinging air
Chapter Two The truck Journey- Individualism
They ain’t..
been tractored out yet
Chapter Two The truck journey- individualism
His eyes were..
Dark brown, his cheekbones were high and wide
Chapter two- individualism
A forty acre chopper
and he ain’t been dusted out
Chapter 3- The land Turtle- symbolism of the Joads journey, victimised by the hostile environment
The driver saw the
Turtle and swerved to hit it
Chapter 3- the land turtle
The concrete highway was…
edged with a mat of tangled, broken dry grass
Chapter 4- religion
I’d take one of them girls out in the grass, an’ I’d lay with her..
Then I’d feel bad, and I’d pray and pray but it didn’t do no good, I’d do it again
Chapter 4 religion
The human spirit…
the whole shebang, maybe all men got one big soul everybody’s part of
Chapter 5- Tenants vs Owners
‘No one could be an owner..
Unless they were cold
Chapter 5- Tenant vs owner
As though the bank..
or company was a monster
Chapter 6- Muley Graves, destruction of Joad house
‘They ain’t whole…
out lonely on the road
Chapter 6- Muley Graves, destruction of Joad house
The small, unpainted [Joad] house was mashed at one corner…
and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it’s slumped at an angle
Chapter 7- Salesman- dehumanisation on migrants
‘Todays bargain…
Never sell it
Chapter 7- Salesman, dehumanisation of migrants
Watch the woman’s face…
If the women likes it we can screw the old man
Chapter 8- Tom and family reunited, community
She seemed to accept her position..
The citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken
Chapter 8- community, Ma Joad
Ma was heavy but not..
fat thick with child bearing and work
Chapter 9- Loss of dignity, tenants decide which belongings can be sold
‘ maybe we can start again in..
The new rich land, in California where the fruit grows we will start over
Chapter 9- loss of dignity
This land, this red land…
us and the flood, dust and drought years are us
Chapter 10- The journey from innocence to awareness
The houses were dead and the fields were dead…
but this truck was the active thing’
Chapter 10
Ma looked to Tom to speak…
because he was a man but Tom did not speak
Chapter 11- Tractors work the desolate land
The houses were..
vacant on the land
Chapter 11
So easy that the wonder goes out of work…
so efficient
Chapter 12- Highway 66
Route 66 is the…
main migrant road
Chapter 12-
66 is the path for…
people in flight
Chapter 12-
The people in flight..
from the terror behind
Chapter 13- Granpa dies, community spirit, older people see destruction,meet the Wilson’s
Granpa didn’t die tonight…
he died the minute you took him off the place
Chapter 14- I vs We
This is the beginning..
from I to we
Chapter 15- Upperclass, inter chapter, diner
The bigger car they got..
the more they steal
Chapter 16- Continue travel to New Mexico, terrible conditions
‘ it’s like a whole..
country is moving
Chapter 16
There is hundreds of families…
like us all going west
Chapter 16
The eyes of the whole family..
were shifted back to ma, she was the power she had taken control
Chapter 17-Camps at night, community
They huddled together..
they shared their lives and things they’d hoped for’
Chapter 16-
The families learned..
What rights are, monstrous and must be destroyed
Chapter 18-hardships awaiting in California,
Them goddamned Okies got no sense…
and no feeling. They ain’t human
Chapter 19- Okies and Hoovervilles, wrath vs meekness, antagonism, negative side to capitalism
Pray for some day..
Kind people won’t all be poor
Chapter 19-
Frantic..
Hungry men
Chapter 19
They farmed on paper..
and forgot the land
Chapter 20- Casy gets arrested, Hoovervilles
We are the people..
We go on
Chapter 20
They ain’t gonna wipe..
us out
Chapter 21- interchalary, property owners vs Okies
These goddamned Okies are..
Dirty and ignorant
Chapter 21
Men who had never..
Been hungry saw the eyes of hunger
Chapter 22- Weedpatch, self contained migrants
Well the association..
Don’t like the government camps
Chapter 22
These folks in the camps are..
getting used to being treated like humans
Chapter 23- hunger for amusement, folklore
The migrant people scuttling for work..
Looked always for pleasure
Chapter 24-community, party
Why can’t they
Let us be
Chapter 24
maybe we ought to get up a turkey..
shooting and have meetings every Sunday
Chapter 25- destruction of land, rise of economy
In the souls of the people the..
grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy for the vintage
Chalter 26- Casy sacrificial, leave Weedpatch
Cotton pickers…
Needed
Chapter 26
We’re cracking up Tom there ain’t..
no family now
Chapter 27- reality of employment
‘ heard about the..
Cotton picking machine
Chapter 28- we vs I, cotton picking
If Casy is true she’ll find him..
in every human action around her
Chapter 29- Wrath and anger
The women stood silently and watched. And where a number of men gathered together…
The fear went from their faces, and anger took its place
Chapter 30- Rose of Sharon’s character development , fight for community
Her lips came together…
and smiled mysteriously
Chapter 30
Worse off we get..
More we got to do
