notes for final

Men returning from California->giving up- going home to starve all at once instead of little by little

Exodus, movement from okla, they are slaves to the bank and to the land
Moses, - Grandma and Grandpa
The Plague- not being able to grow anything
Jesus- Casy-
Judas (desiphal that sells jesus to the romans)- Willy Freely, Crashers at the Dance
Handbills- false hopen
Joads truck- symbolizes the family and there connect to each other
Highway 66- Road to the promise land
Turtle- People verses moloch
Weedpatch- socialtist community, people who live there take care of everything. self regulated. Run by the Okie workers, self regulated, financed by the US Government, Socialism
Hooverville-Squatter's settlement, no- one has any rights, the community is burned own again and again, Police can come in anytime with false charges
Ranch- Prison, Owned and ran by a corporation, box like houses that are dirty, guards everywhere, store that over charges, corporation breaks a strike to pay whatever it can.
Motif of bugs/animals-
Truck stops-

Plots:
Exposition:
Inciting event: Leaving Oklahoma (tractor kicking them off)
Rising Action:
Climax- Tom kills someone
Falling action-
Resolution-

Characters-----------
Tom: reflects the idea of anger and We Vs I, second son, leader of the family- outsider. Philosopher- connected with Casy, sort of Casy's desiphal

Casy- Preacher or ex preacher. Joins the Joad Family out West. Finds himself and becomes a leader of people at the ranch.

Ma- The center of the family. She holds the Family together. She is the leader at the end of the novel

Pa- Head male of the house hold once Grandpa dies. sorta loses his position when they leave the land, and through the novel has less and less to do. Change adapt as well

Rose of Sharon- whiney pregnant lady.

Grandma- She dies as soon as grandpa dies, connected to the land

Noah- eldest son, he is an odd character who has never really quite fit in or been really interested in anything.

Muley Graves: Guy who stays behind and can't leave the land

Wilsons: people the Joads meet on the road and travel with the joads. first extended family

Ruthie and Windfield- youngsters, still kids that will beable to adapt

Next extented family of the joads

The peach camp

Themes: We Vs I, the idea of moluch, anger

Motif: Pretty Boyd Floyd: backs up the theme of anger. He is the lower class person gone bankrupt that steals from the rich and give to the poor. but he is angery

Weedpatch- Self- patrolled, store gives credit, live in tents, people are friendly

Hoopers Ranches Inc.- Guards everywhere, store- no credit or over charging, dirty houses, no- one speaks, people are protesting outside. This is Moluch

Hooverville

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How beautiful california is. and then the fruit is waste because it cant be picked because the small farmers cant afford to have it picked. this is because the big farms own the cannireies and so they survive. The crops that aren't picked are wasted.

notes on the book

Section 1: The Joad Home, Tom returning home, Home- Oklahoma
Section 2: The road, life on the road
Section 3: Camps in California Hooverville: Homeless
Weedpatch: A city if migrants/ workers, Self- sustained
Company Camps: Described like a jail

Busting up the dance: Betrayal of there people hired to break up the dance

Chapters 20 and 21

20
We vs I: how Casy took the blame for beating a cop
Casy: John the baptist or christ like figure, he will comeback
The role of the Women: Ma feels responsible for feeding all the kids

Connie leaves because he realizes he cant really make a living an his dream is just a dream. He cant by a house

Uncle John Goes and gets drunk

New characters:
Floyd- fixin his car to go north and give Al the hint of where work will be. He also is a guy who sorta attacts a contractor. Wise as far as know whats going on. because he gets wise, The contractor gets the cop out who tries to frame Floyd for busting into a used car lot. Floyd was "Talking red"- talking like a communist, the workers of the world will unite and over throw the government

Joe: The cop

Mayor: Been pushed around to many times, not going to leave, cant talk sense

Contractor: These Okies ther is work. wont tell how much hes paying, or how many people he needs

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Hooverville: ragged town of tents and cardboard boxes- "homeless town". Allusion to president Hoover

Weed patches: nice camps that the government set up (FDR)
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Chapter 21 Moloch: God of capitolisim just eating everything, buyign out all the little farms until it is one big farm
Anger: everyone losing their jobs to someone else
People compared to bugs again

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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journal entry for chapter 9

The days after Gatsby was killed. Nick was left incharge of his body. No one wanted Gatsby. Nick put together the funeral and tried to find friends of Gatsby's but everyone he knows wont come. Daisy has left. Mr. Wolfsheim wants to stay any. even Klipspringer won't come. Nick doesn't know of any family until he recieves a wire from Gatsby's father, who shows up a few days later. Reporters and Police come in and out of the scene but otherwise Nick is alone. He tried to convince Wolfsheim to come, but couldn't. Gatsby's father had never beent o his son's house before. when he got here it made him realize how well his son had done. He wasn't to said about his sons death though he did repeatly say Gatsby would have gone far. Mr. Gatz was more mesmerized by everything his son had. On the day of Gatsby's funeral, the only person to show up besides Nick, the priest and Mr. Gatz was Owl- Eyes. The only one to feel bad for Gatsby because everyone used him but when he needed them the most no one showed up.

After Gatsby was buried, Nick goes onto his memories of living in the east. He later ran into Jordan, and they talked about their time together and how Nick "threw her over" and that she wasn't used to it. Then one afternoon, Nick saw Tom Buchanan and they talked and Nick finally understood why tom told George what he did. And the story ends with Nick leaving and heading back home.

Symbol: Nick and Tom's hand Shake

Motif: Green light at the end of Daisy's dock.

Characters: Henry C. Gatz; Meyer Wolfsheim; Slagle; Stella; Klipspringer; Owl- Eyes

Allusion: James J. Hill; Worls Series tansaction in 1919; The Rosary; Hopalong Cassidy

Motifs: Realization

Journal Entry for chapter 8

After a rough night of sleep sleep, Nick finally hears a taxi pull up and rushes over to Gatsby's. Gatsby tells Nick of his night and how he waited until Daisy shut the light off at 4 am. Nick stayed with Gatsby that morning and was told Gatsby's story about Daisy and how he got hooked to her. She was different to Gatsby, and so he fell in love with her. But then He had to go fight in the and then ran into complications while trying to come home. Daisy, though she loved Gatsby, became restless and while Gatsby was stuck in Oxford, she married Tom. When Gatbsy finally returned from France he want back to Louiseville with the last of his pay but Daisy was away on her honey moon and that was the end of Gatsby's story.
After Gatsby's story, the last of Gatsby's former servants came to tell him that it would be best if he emptied the pool today but Gatsby postponeded it for a little long and asked Nick to come swim. Nick Declined, having to catch the train to go to work. and so Nick left.
At work, Jordan called. they talked for a little bit but the converstation stopped at noon. Then Nick returns to the murder of Myrtle. Catherine deined that Mrytle had been fooling around. Mr. wilson got into a horrible state after Myrtles Death and Michaelis had to stay with him all night. George know who killed his wife though. and as soon as Michaelis left, so did George.
At two o'clock, Gatsby got on his bathing suit and went for a swim. When Wilson fianlly got back to west egg, he went straight to Gatsby's house and found Gatsby dead in the pool and not far away, Wilson Dead too.









Symbol: Light in Dasiy's room; Daisy's white car;

Allusion: Grail; Beale Street Blues

Motif: Time, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg,Valley of ashes

Characters: Gatsby, Nick, the last servant, Jordan, Catherine, George Wilson, Michaelis, The chauffer

project

Sub-plots:


Motifs- Eyes; Time; The Green-light; Money; Friendship; Realization



Characters: Klipspringer
Nick
Daisy
Gatsby
Gatsby's Servant


Owl Eyes
Gatsby
Nick
Dan Cody
Tom Buchanan
Mr. and Mrs Sloane
Miss Baedecker