Quotes From 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

The book is a dystopian story where everybody is born and raised to one belief. The thought is that everyone must grow and be pretty on their 16th birthday. But Tally Youngblood, the main character of Uglies, gets her dreams of being beautiful destroyed when she learns the truth about what exactly goes down in that operating room.

Metaphors are used a lot throughout the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Some examples of metaphors in the story are, the sand turtle trying to cross the road in chapter three, the bank monster that is described in chapter five, and the car dealership that is described in chapter seven.

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe” (Douglass). In Steinbeck’s Dust Bowl Age novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, protagonist Tom Joad, and his family are forced from their farm due to the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, believing to set out to refuge for California, along with many struggling migrant workers. Including the family, thousands of migrant workers are in search of jobs, land, and the hope for having a brighter future. Steinbeck also includes the aspect of characters who come along such as Jim Casy, whose characteristics rely on human unity and love as

The book “Uglies,” has a good side and also a bad one to humanity. In the beginning of the book (which would be known as the good side) life in all of the cities were all in order. Everyone started in “Uglyville” were at school they learned all about the good

Step 1: Call to Adventure Hazel’s brother, Fiver, disturbs peace throughout the Sandleford warren when he has a dream that terrible things will happen to the warren. Fiver insists that everyone should leave the warren immediately but nobody listens to him except for a few rabbits. Quoted evidence: “Oh Hazel!

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)

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?

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

1. Throughout the play, Rose confronts Troy only on minor flaws, while supporting his self-image as a good, strong capable man. Rose: “I know you like the back of my hand. Go in there and get you some coffee… See if that straighten you up.

”(Westerfeld 292). So Tally ends up having to steal a hover board and escaping from what was once her home so that she could get away and not become pretty. Which leads her to finding David in the cave she hid in to keep the specials from seeing her heat signature in the cold rocks. And when she does find David and he asks her what happened in the smoke she explains everyone was captured and they later find the boss dead and his parents

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

Tally will find Shay for the following reasons. Shay lefts clues for Tally just in case she changed her mind about the operation. The clues are in a riddle/poem form and Tally is the only one who can understand it. On Tally’s journey she meets people have heard of the smoke. These people take uglies who don’t want to be pretty to the smoke. The smoke is where Shay said she was going. After meeting these people Tally has hope that she will find Shay. Tally also might not find Shay either because, Dr. Cable mentions that uglies “disappear” all the time before their 16th birthday. Tally also realizes that the its a long journey to the smoke. Since she is alone the reader can conclude that something could happen to Shay on her journey there. Shay told Tally that she was suppose to leave earlier but she chickened out last minute. These are the reasons why the reader can conclude that Tally will find Shay or she might

3. The rising actions of any story are the events that lead to the climax. In this story, the rising

While Tally escapes New Pretty Town she happens to bump into Shay, another hideous ugly waiting to become a beautiful pretty. Shay is a bit more rebellious than Tally but the two become great friends. Eventually, Tally brings up the pretty surgery and how she is scheduled to get it done once she turns 16. Shay doesn’t think