Quotes From 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

“At the heart of every immigrant’s experience is a dream- a vision of hope that is embodied in his or her destination” (Gladstein 685). In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath the migrants imagined the absolute aspects of living care free to the west. However, everything changed once they traveled to the west, realizing the simple concept turned into hazardous problems. John Steinback emphasized the American dream of economic stability and truculent situations towards the Joads family's point of view. Throughout the immigration, the Joads family goes through constant and unpredictable changes in employment, and their eventual failure to find success in California. The novel has been called by critics "a celebration of the human spirit", in several ways it is true due to the aspects of human nature. Despite the hazardous actions people can do, it is important to realize everything around us.

“‘Have I ever let you down?’ he asked Brian and me and then turned and walked away. In a voice so low that Dad didn’t hear him, Brian said, ‘Yes’” (Walls 78).

In 1870, he had a blood clot in his brain. In his delusional state his mind took him back to the wars he had fought in. He couldn’t talk for the last couple of days in his life, but you could see in his eyes that he had resigned

“… Dick saw a man, who was his own age- twenty- eight or thirty. He could have been ‘a gambler or lawyer or maybe a gangster from Chicago.’ Whatever he was he looked as though he knew the glories of money and power… All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it. Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing? … With a knife in his hand, he, Dick, had the power. Big shots… like that better be careful or he might ‘open them up and let their luck spill on the floor’” (201).

Quote : “I realized that this man was not trying to arrest us, nor was he demanding money. He wanted to know what trouble we were in. He wanted to help” (.162)

During the story, a lot of families were losing their land to the banks. Many of the families had been living there for generations, and the land was wrongly taken from them. Steinbeck wanted to show how the conglomerates were taking away core parts of the families. He also wanted to show how they were mistreated by everyone. Steinbeck shows this point by writing how the banks severed the families’ ties that were connected to the land, showing how the banks destroyed people’s lands, and forced the families into destitution.

If I should die bfore i wake ch1-2: "we even wore the same coat, with the same star decorations: canary yellow stars, one on the front and one on the back" (11). The star symbolizes that Chana is a Jew. Do you believe that it was wise for the kids to try to go to school? No because not only do the kids not get to go to school they have to work. What is the motive for chana to keep cleaning?

A. In this passage, Miss Sadie is talking to Abilene about how even though something is dry or dead, it can still thrive. When they are discussing this, they are at Miss Sadie's Divining Parlor. They are speaking because Miss Sadie didn't agree with Abilene's opinion that everything is dry.

Section 1: 1. a. Receptacle b. "Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget." (82-83) c. An object or space used to contain something.

1. Ordinary World –the Hero’s home. A safe haven he must leave to start the journey The ordinary world is on a farm that is somewhere in Europe and it is near a village. (pg.

Grandpa Joad, an irrepressible symbol, in The Grapes of Wrath is a very emotionally connected character through his resilience with the land. While the family truck is returning to Sallisaw, a quote describing the family and the grandpa’s bitterness, “And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them” (Steinbeck 97). As the family attempts to follow in the path that all migrants must take to make their lives in California, the effort comes with extreme ramifications. The Grandpa however stays to his old nature and begins to die as he is taken away from the land that was keeping his spirit alive. Grandpa is stuck in the idea that the way that life was is now the way life

“At the heart of every immigrant’s experience is a dream- a vision of hope that is embodied in his or her destination” (Gladstein, p. 685). In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, it is portrayed that the migrant’s thoughts of an American Dream is/was a simple and straightforward notion: go west (California), get employment and become rich. Little did they that know that an ideal and perfect life was difficult to accomplish and it corrupted the minds of those pursuing it. The author, John Steinberg, placed a lot of emphasis on the unachievable nature of the American Dream regarding economic stability in the novel through the cross-country migration of the Joads, their continuous and unpredictable changes in employment and eventually, their failure to find the success they so desired in California (Aghosh, Allentown, PA).

Question: Do you guys think Adam is fully aware of what is happening into the social conditions in the American West?

The Grapes of Wrath is set in the horrible stage of our American history, the Depression. Economic, social, and historical surroundings separate the common man of America into basically the rich and poor. A basic theme is that man turns against one another in a selfish pride to only protect themselves. For example, the landowners create a system in which migrants are treated like animals and pushed along from one roadside camp to the next. They are denied decent wages and forced to turn against their fellow scramblers to simply survive.

“Lord Conrad, thou art the father of this prisoner’s child?! Thou had sex out of wedlock and stripped this woman of her purity!” exclaimed Lord Chief Justice.