Tuesday, April 27, 2010

chapter 16- 17

Junk yard and the private camp
One eyed man- feels sorry for himself and prevent himself from doing anything
Stienbeck is trying to say that you cant let thing hold you back

Private camp- man who was in cali and tells them that someone owns everything and that its not going to be like what everyone thinks. it is workers needed, not told the salary. you work just enough to live. he lost his entire family.

17- poetic chapter about all these people moving. how these migrating families become one family.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

chapters 13-14

Lost the dog
Lost grandpa
down to 12 people

Meet the wilsons
Sairy and Ivy, they have been on the road for 3 weeks and are from Kansas.
Foreshadow because there is something wrong with Sairy

Themes: We vs I and the Idea of Family, the Joads have extended their family to the wilsons and Casy.
They becomeo one once Tom shows hospitality and Grandpa dies in the Wilsons tent
they team up with the Wilsons to get to Cali
Had to bury Grandpa with a note and random saying from the bible
Grandpa died as soon as they took him off that land

Chapter 14:
We Vs I
Moloch Vs Evil
Anger
The people start to get together and figure things out
People are hungry and all these people are hungry, and there is a possiblilty that perhaps they can change things
The common thing that keeps you alive will keep you together

Casy preaches for them even though he told them he doesnt preach anymore

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Chapter 12/ notes

3 movements

Part one Chapters 1- 11
About the Family/ Oklahoma
Before and getting ready to move


part two be
The journey


Chapter 12----------
Route 66. the road to the promise land
*Cars/ Cars breaking down
- 250,000
- abandoned cars all over the road
*Families looking for parts and being ripped off for those parts
* Handbills

Monday, April 12, 2010

Chapter 11 ND 12

11- tractors workers disconnection from the land/ What happens to the land when it is disconnected from the people. So disconnected from the land they don't know how to manage it
The land is becoming wild again

chapters 9 and 10

9- Generalization/ poetic chapter
- Sell all their valuables
- buyers/ salesman/ pawn shop type from out of town
- idea of selling your life, getting rid of your life for almost nothing/ selling off part of themselves
- Themes: We vs I
Moloch- god of capitalism. Someones I is more important them somone elses we

10-
Characters: Uncle John- lives a spartan lifestyle but everyonce in awhile he goes crazy ; Ruthie (12); Winfield (10)- youngens, most able to adapt; Connie Rivers- 19; Noah- no inner desire to do anything; Rose of Sharon; Al- desire of automobiles; Ma- wears the pants, holds everyone together; Grandma and grandpa - argue all the time but very caring for each other, grandpa decides he is staying because he is old and his entire life is on this land but they drug him to tae him with me

We vs i shows up
Purty Boy Floyd

Chapter 8

Casy and Tom move out to go to Uncle Johns to try to catch Tom's family before they head to Cali. On there walk Tom tells the story of how uncle john's wife passed away and that he never has forgiven himself. When they arrive at the farm Pa is working on fixin the truck/ car to go. Pa then surprises ma with Tom being there. and then you meet the whole family. They all eat breakfast. They of course all ask Tom about ow he felt about going to jail and tell him about Cali. The chapter ends with Al coming back home and asking Tom how he got out.

Themes:
The role of a woman
Family
What is nature, what is natural has been broken up

7- used car sales man

Monday, April 5, 2010

Grapes of Wrath Vocab

1) Pique N.; A feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, esp. to one's pride
everyone was a little pique because they were being forced off the land they had worked on for years

2) Imperturbability Adj.; Unable to be upset or excited; Calm
The imperturbability Ma made everyone feel relaxed

3) Rivulet N.; A very small stream
The rivulet ran right next to the house and made for easy drinking water for the horses

4) Germinate V. (of a seed or spore) begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy.
The seed, after a few weeks, finally germinated
5) Zenith N.; the highest point reached by a celestial or other object
The zenith very far away
6) Scuttle V.; run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps
the old woman did more of a scuttle to get away from the bear
7) Declivity N.; A downward slope
The boy didnt see the declivity and ended up falling and rolling the whole way down
8) Bemuse V.; puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone)
To bemuse the pirates on where the treasure was buried, he had to make a confusing map
9) Petulant Adj.; (of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered
The petulant boy got introuble a lot for back talking to his mom
10) Dissipate V.; disperse or scatter
The smell, once strong, dissipated as the day went on and you could hardly smell it after a few hours

Thursday, April 1, 2010

The monster

In this book the Monster is the corporations that own the land. It's only way to survive is if it makes a profit and when the farms stop making a lot the Monster has to find someway to alter what is being done inorder to start making a profit again. It is no one person but the whole corporation and they are a monster because they don't care about others.