John Steinbeck uses repetition and accents making the language emphasizing the great depression and the Dustbowl era, the struggles the Joad family had gone through and the goals they’ve created in order to find work and settle down, to express the time period before to modern day, marking this book as a classic novel.
Repetition and accents emphasizing old times (Language): A) “Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears …Listen to the pounding old jalopy with all your senses,” Steinbeck, 85. The Repetition and the word choice creates a sense in the readers mind to listen carefully and the word “Jalopy” used when the first car was invented, depicting that the time period is long before modern