In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses the unconventional, intercalary chapters in the structure of this novel. These intercalary chapters are a narrative technique in which Steinbeck informs the reader about the economic impact of the Great Depression upon the common farmers in the U.S. during that time. In chapter 11, Steinbeck uses the intercalary chapter technique to describe the incoming of the modern tractors and the effect this modernization had on the land the farmers had occupied. Steinbeck’s masterful use of syntax, diction and parallelism to create depressed, degenerating tone of human loss.…
Chapter 20 (pgs 327-384) This chapter focuses back on the Joads and their first few days in California. Their extremely limited funds don’t allow a proper ceremony and burial, the family leave Grandma's body at the door of the coroner’s office. The family makes their way to Hooverville, a large camp full of gaunt eyes and hollow stomachs. Along the way they meet Floyd Knowles, he explained the rough life here and if you were thinking about just walking on in a getting work then you're delusional.…
One of the many major scens of the book is when Eli’s father flashes back and tells the story of how the compound was built and kept secret he first stated how the workers had to walk miles and miles to a buss station where they would be blindfolded and bussed to the compound. He said it would be hard to find due to everything looking the same. In another conversation Eli dosen’t want to listen to his dad when he thinks they should start cloning humans. He said his sister lexie was on board and waiting for, him…
Grapes of Wrath Essay The Grapes of Wrath is a story of the Joad family during the Dust bowl, and about their journey to California in search of work. Throughout the book, you see how the characters treat one another in hard times, and how it effects them. Dehumanization and brutality plays a huge part throughout the story and it shapes the way the characters act, feel, and say.…
7-12-15 Chapter 9 Huck and Jim went exploring. Jim helped Huck hide his canoe and set traps in it. They set all their things for the raining weather that was about to come. They then built a fire and made dinner. They went into a cavern, and saw that there was a giant storm outside; the trees were flying everywhere and the wind was carrying everything with its might.…
Although the salesman who works at the car lot is less intimidating than the cyclops the both have a one eyed character at one point in their journeys . In The Grapes of Wrath when the Joads are looking for a car for their "Road Trip" to California they visit a car lot. In this car lot they meet a one-eyed salesman with low self esteem who despises his boss. Through out their "stay" at the car lot the salesman spends more time complaining, wallowing in self pity and describing his struggles of only having one eye instead of actually doing his job. Eventually Tom has enough of his whining and lectures him, Which leads me to my next comparison; both roles have a good amount of arrogance attached to them.…
The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath share a common theme of corruption. In The Jungle, you see a version of trickle down corruption. Corruption was found from the top political bosses trickling down to the small businesses. This made it close to impossible for a poor man to have a chance in Packingtown. The Grapes of Wrath was morally corrupt.…
Liam Eichenberg 10/15/2015 Mr.Lauer MA Some can argue the mother of a family controls there family John steinbecks novel “The Grapes of wrath” portrays several unique characters that resemble strength and the drive to find a better life. . On their gruling journey across the united states the joads begin to find out who has what it takes to make it there. The weak slowly die off and strong stay along for the ride to greater lands. From the beging till the end Ma Joad has taken control of this family.…
In the opening chapter of one through eleven of “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbach, tells of the Dust Bowl drought that swept through Oklahoma and how it affected the homes and livelihood of the sharecroppers (Steinbach 2-4). Tom Joad, in chapter two, finds himself riding with a truck driver after having served four years in prison at a place called McAlester. He had been locked up after being in a drunken brawl and killing a man (Steinbach 4-12). Chapter three tell of a turtle crossing the highway and how a truck driver tried to intentionally run the turtle over and barely missed crushing the turtle. The turtle was finally able to make it across after much struggling (Steinbach 14-16).…
The four classic elements are all represented in this novel, the element of earth appears in the first section of Part Two. The statements “All the great armies of modern history passed this way and through this mud”(narration, p. 69) and “The ground is the colour of steel”(narration, p.69) directly give the readers a image of the muddy ground. The ground works as an image of hell or underworld, as described in section four of Part Two: “[Robert] saw that the whole field was filled with floating shapes. The only sounds were the sounds of feeding and of wings. And of rafts.…
TThematic Connection: One theme that can be supported by this passage is physical strength is never enough. Even though Elie and his family were warned about the Hungarian Police coming they weren't prepared. They were physically prepared very well. They had all belongings they needed and hide all of their personal possessions, but they forgot to mentally prepare. When leaving a place that's been you home forever and just being pulled out of it you need to mentally prepare and have the strength to control your emotions and that is something not many people prepared for but realized not to short after they left that they should have.…
SYNTAX: The author switches back and forth between the Joad family and the migrant farmers in general. Quotations are used when the chapter is about the Joads. However, when it is about migrant farmers, Steinbeck does not put quotation marks. This is mostliekly he used these quotes to mean that any farmer in the nation oculd be saying that becasue they all share the same struggle. .…
The effect of the road and the camps also distresses family life in the fact that it “use' ta be the family was fust [yet] it ain't so [now;] it's anybody” (Steinbeck 441). The loss of the individual in all the hardship leads to the idea that “twenty families became one family, .. children were the children of all [and] the loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream” (Steinbeck 193). The “Okies” gather and suffer together in the Grapes of Wrath, because so many “[haven’t] felt so--safe in a long time” and thought “people needs--to help” (Steinbeck 141). They --the Joads, for example-- only survive because they have someone else to lean on: someone a few tents down who understands their plight. They unified collectively as a people that was previously unknown to them in the foreign land of California.…
Imagine a world where you lost everything. You have almost no money, your family is dying of starvation and you can’t find a job anywhere in your state. This is the life of the Joad family in the film. During the Dustbowl a lot of people were forced out of their homes because they couldn’t find work, grow crops and make money. Most of these people moved to California in search of jobs and a new life for them and their family.…
Topic sentence /argum’t 1: I. Family treatment can be seen in different perspectives; each individual perceive another’s words and actions in a different way than intended. Supporting Evidence: A. What her mother is saying can be taken in a different context as Connie and herself think in a different mindset. Paraphrase/Quotation: 1. “Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister?…