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31 Cards in this Set
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Chapter 1
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Description of Oklahoma (dust bowl, dry, dirty)
"The women studied the men's faces secretly, for the corn could go, as long as something else remained" |
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Chapter 2
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At the diner; Tom Joad (just out of prison) persuades driver with sign "no riders".
"But sometimes a guy'll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker." |
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Chapter 3
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struggling turtle - symbolic for the Joads, carries its house with him
"... dragging his high-domed shell over the grass." |
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Chapter 4
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meeting Jim Casy (J.C. - Jesus Christ), former preacher, a transcendentalist who lost his faith
"I figgered about the Holy Sperit and the Jesus road... that it was true, and I still know it" |
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Chapter 5
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Flashback: bank (monster) comes and takes land away.
"The man sitting in he iron seat did not look like a man... he was part of a monster, a robot in the seat." |
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Chapter 6
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Meeting Muley Graves, who stayed behind and keeps fighting.
"Place where them folks live is them folks." |
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Chapter 7
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Intercalary chapter - cars, cheating on customers
"If the women likes it we can screw the old man." |
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Chapter 8
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Tom comes home to a happy family (12 members - 12 disciples).
"She watched him as though he were suddenly a spirit, not human any more, a voice out of the ground." |
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Chapter 9
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Extended metaphor - junk dealers keep lowering the price.
"You're not only buying junk, you're buying junked lives." |
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Chapter 10
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Little white houses - Ma Joads dream (represent the American Dream).
"... little white houses in among the orange trees." |
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Chapter 11
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Man is separated from nature - loses wonder.
"He is all these, but he is much more, much more; and the land is so much more than its analysis." |
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Chapter 12
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New tire - the man is a jerk
Parable allegory (teaches moral lesson): 2 levels of meaning-literal/symbolic. "The man who pulled them fed them" |
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Chapter 13
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Joads journey begins. Grandpa dies (stroke) - meeting Wilson family (Ivy & Sairy). Start journey together.
"The shadow of someone walking between the tent and the sun crossed the canvas." |
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Chapter 14
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Tractor - tank (cruelty)
"There is little difference between this tractor and a tank." |
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Chapter 15
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Allegory - Al & Mae's diner (truck drivers/shitheels). Parable : learns a lesson.
"I wonder what they'll do in California?" |
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Chapter 16
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Car breaks down. American Dream: own shop, independent life.
"I'm bolshevisky" |
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Chapter 17
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Microcosm (Utopia): life model of big world to show the world should be.
Dystopia: something major has gone wrong "In the evening a strange thing happened: the 20 families became one family" |
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Chapter 18
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Border guard - not welcome in California.
Noah leaves - follows the river Grandmother dies "A large woman in a torn black dress" - "Them Okies got no sense and no feeling." |
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Chapter 19
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History of California (America conquered it from Mexico).
"... and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in." |
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Chapter 20
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In Hooverville. Connie runs off - to study tractors.
"Don't understan' nothing. That's how cops like us. ... Be bull-simple." |
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Chapter 21
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Intercalary- fear of desperate 'Oakies'.
"The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of honger and the hunger itself changed them." |
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Chapter 22
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Utopia starts collapsing (pay 30ct/hr to 25 ct/hr, deputies want to clear it out). Committees - well organized.
"Well, sit down with us then. We got plenty - Thank God!" |
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Chapter 23
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Parable storyteller - rich versus poor. Connection with nature.
"And the people listened remembered the crash of dry leaves under their feet." |
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Chapter 24
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The dance - everything under control. Police comes, but no riot.
"Pa said, 'They's a change a comin.' I don't know what. Maybe we won't live to see her. But she's a-comin." |
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Chapter 25
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Beauty California - apples, pears,...
"The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be." |
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Chapter 26
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No work left - pregnant women eat clay/dirt. Casy murdered. First scene Rose of Sharon cares about someone besides herself.
"He drew back the covers from his face. Rose of Sharon was standing beside his mattress." |
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Chapter 27
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Justice - Old testament : an eye for an eye. Punishment - Crime.
"His scales mus' be crooked." |
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Chapter 28
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New workplace - cotton. Live in box car. Ma sends Tom away (he doesn't come back anymore). Theme book: together you are stronger.
"a fella ain't no good alone" - "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor." |
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Chapter 28 (II)
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Rose of Sharon becomes most important character.
"The berry vines cut her face and pulled at her hair, but she didn't mind." |
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Chapter 29
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'The deluge' (severe flood). Desperation - no work, no food.
"They squatted on their hams and looked over the flooded land." |
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Chapter 30
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RoS gives birth - dead baby. She breastfeeds starving man.
Al loves Aggie Wainwright - families unite. "It ain't our baby kin go" (opposite theme). "... and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously." (Mona Lisa) |
