Chapters 3-4

Turtle trying to cross the road/ nearly bit by two cars

Turtle/ nature: Chapter 3: Slow but continues to move towards a destination, Has been around for a long time (Longer than man cars and roads), has a shell to protect it, going to survive the dust bowl, turtle is thrown on his back after being hit by the car and has a little bit of sruggle to flip over.
Chapter 4: going to be a boys pet, tries to rebel, old bulldozer

Cars- sinister (something while created by man is not quite nature like, idea of machines or capitilism/ Moloch

Jim Casey: Old preacher, used to baptize people, questioning his beliefs on whether or not god is real. idea of being lost as a preacher, says that he loves people not nessacray jesus. Important that he is non perfect

Tom Joad: a farmers son, killed someone out of self defense and went to prison, Going back to his family buisness. On probabtion= foreshadow, person ful of anger and easy to anger, Anger= theme he represents, lost
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Turtle: i believe the turtle represents the will of man. He keeps going his way and even when he is knocked over he doesn't give up and will keep going. He doesn't give up hope

Tom Joad: Tom just got out of jail, is a little bit lost right now, and he is easily angered. He, though, is trying to get back to a normal life, going to live on his farm and work, he does not regret what he did and is not ashamed.

Jim Casey: He will being to enforce the theme of We vs I. He is an old preacher. He is questioning his belief in Jesus and has decided he love people not nessecary Jesus, which living in the south most everyone was religious.

Theme: We vs I

Grapes of Wrath chapters 1-2

Characters: Tom Joad- He is a hitch hiker that just got out of prison after spending 4 years there because he killed a guy. He is going to go work on his uncles farm. He wears new but cheap clothes that dont fit him right because that is what he was given.

Truck- driver: He gives Joad a lift when he is not supposed to. He is nosy. He whats to take a school course and not be a truck diver anymore. He is responsable and doesnt drink on the job.

Waitress: She works at the diner where the truckdriver was eating. She has a lump behind her ear and doesnt really care or pay much attention to when the truck driver is trying to talk to her

Summary:
Chapter 1- this is an introduction to the time. We learn that nothing is growing and life is becoming hard. There is dust everywhere, people cover there doors, and windows in attempts to prevent it from coming in but it still seeps into the houses. It hangs in the Air all day and there is never any rain. The men are trying to figure out what they will do about it and the women stick by there mans side.

Chapter 2- It starts at a diner and a truck driver is talking to a waitress. He doesnt stay long before he needs to hit the raod again. When he goes to get in his truck he runs into Tom Joad who asks for a lift. On there ride the truck driver talks and tries to get Joad to talk but he is prety quite until Joad gets sick of the truck drivers nosiness and tells the truck driver that he just got out of jail because he killed someone and that he is going to his uncles farm to work.

Setting: Place: Oklahoma Time: 1920/30 great depression

Citations

J.R. "Virtue of Selfishness". The Atlas Society. Web. 12 March, 2010.


Lamonte, T. "Have Americans Become to Selfish?". Today in Central New York, 17 March 2009. Web. 13 March 2009.

Stevens, Tom G. PhD. "Too Selfish?" 2005. Web. 14 March, 2010.


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