Rhetorical Devices In The Grapes Of Wrath

In the first five chapters we can see that Tom is a young boy who liked to play with his friends and cannot stand working, even if his friends are working. In the second chapter, Tom deceived his friends to put whitewash

Tom fears that his own kind will be overrun by others, such as dreamers like Gatsby. Tom hides “behind his wealth” (Pidgeon 179) and “leave others to clean up [his] messes” (Pidgeon 180). Tom’s arrogance and racism help create his character and establish his place in the society. Tom’s personality depicts his cruel ways of protecting the old money’s ways of life from the new money people. He considers himself above of everyone else.

At first, Tom only cared about himself and how he would succeed. Pretty soon, he has the same line of thinking as Preacher Jim Casy. “[sic] I’ll be ever’where-wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there” (Steinbeck 537). Tom is talking about how he wants to organize a strike like what Casy did. He believes that if everyone joins together, then the cops can not touch them. He forgot about what is best for

In John Steinbeck 's The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad and his family are forced from their home during the 1930’s Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California along with thousands of others in search of jobs, land, and hope for a brighter future. The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck’s way to expound about the injustice and hardship of real migrants during the Depression-era. He utilizes accurate factual information, somber imagery, and creates pathos, allowing readers connections to the Joad’s plight

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck. Throughout the novel Steinbeck uses rhetorical devices such as syntax and diction to support his tones and themes. In chapter 5, the tenants get vested by the men of the bank, and were told they had to leave. This chapter created 3 tones: hatred, sympathy and hope. One of the rhetorical devices used in The Grapes of Wrath is syntax.

The land has died and their souls are dying. This is the reality for the Joad family, their hope is leaving and Steinbeck is the mastermind behind it all. These Okies, in the midst of chaos, must evacuate into an unchartered territory, to California a distant possibility of a better life. There is no comfort or resolution from immense suffering the Joad’s face. Casy, gets killed, Tom must leave his family to protect them, Rose of Sharon lost a husband and a child and Ma Joad who had to soak up all the pain and must ensure safety for her family. The language and plot are against the possibility to ever see the Joad family become united and prosperous because of the tension set up by the words. In The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 11, Steinbeck uses a total of forty-two verbs to convey the hopelessness; he also allows the reader to prepare for the shift from beauty into darkness by defining what is, “living” and “dead,” by using “is” as a linking verb; showing the decline of hope within different verbs.

In chapter five of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, banking companies that supposedly own the land that belongs to the farmers are trying to take it away from them. Rhetorical devices are extremely evident in this chapter and are used to emulate the theme. A emphasized theme of this chapter is a man’s inhumanity to another man, as expressed in the way the bank is referenced to a monster or beast, the way the owners are described, and the way the farmers talk about how their land is being taken on the other side of inhumanity.

He doesn’t find comfort in the past, he finds comfort in the next family meal and safety of the people around him being pushed down by the big businessmen. As a result of this behavior, he is seen as more of an unchanging figure when it comes to the new California jobs. The labor strikes and unions allow the defiance to show through Tom, without these vital examples, Tom may be seen as a man free of his past and looking only to the

Man is one with nature. John Steinbeck opens The Grapes of Wrath with a chapter regarding the connection between the people of the land and the land itself. The first chapter sets the tone for the rest of the novel, creating a sense emotional unity and togetherness. The rhetorical devices applied in the opening chapter allow the reader to grasp the mood of rest of The Grapes of Wrath. Through repetition, generalizations, and personification, Steinbeck establishes the connection between the migrant people and the land.

In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses many of the literary devices to emphasize the conditions of the people migrating to California. One that I found obvious and recurring in the novel was repetition. There are many instances in the novel where words, images, or phrases are repeated to bring the condition of certain situations to life.In the quote above Steinbeck uses repetition to create an ethereal trance and stress the desperate times of the Dust Bowl era. The overuse of “listen” has a sense of movement. The reader also gets to feel that he is apart of the story feeling the increase of reality. Also the use of “you” by Tom, the narrator makes the reader feel amid with the Joad family who have sold everything they owned

Many devastating events occurred during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. In The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, these injustices are outlined through the Joad Family’s migration to California. Steinbeck focuses on a key theme in Chapter five, the inability to escape hardship during the time of the Dust Bowl. Farmers, friends, and owners got caught in something much larger than themselves known as the “Monster”.

Have you wondered what it's like to work so hard for something and receive little recognition? Have you ever been forced off of your land and have nowhere to go? These are problems that arise in the book The Grapes Of Wrath. The Joads wanted to travel to California because they were kicked off of their land and were homeless. So they worked hard for a large sum of money so they could travel across the country.

In perhaps his greatest work, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck tells a story of Tom Joad and his family, who are forced to abandon their farm during the depression era Oklahoma dust bowl. They decide to travel to California along with many other in search for jobs and homes, and look for a great future. In the time considered, The Grapes of Wrath, gives a shockingly real view on the struggles citizens at the time faced. In the tragic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses Christian symbolism effectively in order to shape and reinforce the theme of the dignity of wrath. Steinbeck convey’s this through the use of Jim Casy, Tom Joad and Rose of Sharon.

I believe that Tom is a spoiled brat that thinks he is better than everyone else, he also puts up a fake front to make himself seem like a perfect little angel when he really isn’t, and he treats Matt extremely poorly. For example, the text states, “Tom’s bristly red hair was slicked down, and his fingernails were neat, white crescents. Tom was always perfectly groomed for these occasions, and it earned him admiring comments from the women who came to El Patron’s birthday parties,” (Farmer 95). The text also implies, “Tom hurried down the hall. He glanced back with a look of savage triumph,” (Farmer 121). Lastly, the text explains, “In less than an hour Tom returns with a peashooter. The boy outside seemed to have an endless amount of peas, but eventually he called Matt a few bad names and went away,” (Farmer 46).

The author’s purpose for writing chapter 3 of The Grapes of Wrath was to convey to the audience not to avoid your problems but to hit them “head on”. In this chapter, the turtle shows resilience by facing his problems. For example it states, “The old humorous eyes looked ahead, and the horny beak opened a little” (Steinbeck 16). This shows that even after almost facing death, the turtle continues to finish his journey. Chapter three also states, “And as the turtle crawled on down the embankment its shell dragged dirt over the seeds” (Steinbeck 16). This shows how the turtle continues life no matter the troubles he faced. The author uses symbolism to show the turtle’s determination. “His front wheel struck the edge of the shell, flipped the turtle…it’s front foot caught a piece of