Bryon and Mark start this chapter in a pool hall where they are planning to make some money hustling pool. They are only sixteen years old, so it is illegal for them to be in a pool hall with a bar in it but they are usually successful at hustling because they look so innocent. After checking for an undercover cop and not finding one, Bryon asks Charlie, the bartender for a CCoke. Charlie reminded him that he and Mark already owed for three dollars worth of CokeCokes and refused to give him another until he paid on his debt. Mark joined Bryon at the counter and asked for a Coke. Bryon told him their credit was no good, but Charlie gave in to Mark and gave them Cokes after all when Mark promised to bring the money in the next day. Bryon says that talking people into things is...…
1. William was being sent to Mr.Tom because William used to live in the city and it was bad there. So he was forced to live out in the country and his mom wanted William to live with a man who was religouis, so she picked Mr.Tom.…
The Great Depression affected all of America. “By 1933, 11,00 of the United States’ 25,000 banks had failed” (Britanica 1). This failure caused a loss of confidence in the economy. Unemployment was also a big issue at the time. By 1932 unemployment had raised to 12 to 15 million people out of the work force; that is 25 to 30%. The manufacturers also lost a lot of their output. By 1932, The U.S. manufacturing output had fallen to 54% of its 1929 level. Many people’s lives were dramatically changed during the Great Depression. Many people had to deal with starvation, cold, drought and many other problems.…
The Grapes of Wrath remains one of the greatest angry books. Its dominating idea is that of imminent, overwhelming anger. Steinbeck, as a responsible writer, was concerned with exposing a problem in all its complexity instead of arguing a single solution. In writing his novel, he decided to depict for the readers the insult and deprivation suffered by people like the Joads. To present the story of simple human beings while providing at the same time the social documentation. Steibeck's anger of the whole situation turns into a book to show an example of the fate of Joads and their problems while moving with the mass to…
I think that the chief reasons for the mass migration to California where based on a few different reasons. The first reason was because everyone was poor. They didn't have enough money to have the most basic necessities in life. They would even go to such lengths as to steal a neighbors house. No body was happy living in Oklahoma. They all had such hard lives that no one had time to do what they wanted to do. It was farm from sun up to sun down. That is what everyone did, and they didn't even get that much compensation for all the devotion that they put into their work day, after day, after day. If I worked at something for twelve hours a day, and just made hardly enough money to keep living, I would get quite frustrated and not be very happy at all.…
“Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma.” This quote originates from Tom Joad after Ma had revolted against the family when they suggested the idea of splitting up. Ma stubbornly picked up a jack handle and waved it at the Joad family, including the normal head of the family, Pa. Ma's outbreak was astonishing to the Joads and marked the beginning of her fierce leadership of the family and the degradation of Pa's role as the head man. Throughout the tale of the Joads' migration to California, Ma had begun as a timid woman without having much say in the family decisions, but steadily took…
During the Great Depression there were many deaths. For example, starvation from the lack of food and many more of the deaths were caused by dust pneumonia. The Great Depression made people died, face discrimination, and bankruptcy.…
The Great Depression was one of the worst hardships that the United states have ever been through. On October 29th, 1929, the Stock Market crashed causing the Great Depression. Throughout the 1930s, the Great Depression, caused massive unemployment, many banks to fail, and left a strong impression on the people who survived it. As the United States’ economy plummeted the government made a New Deal with the public to try to get them out of the slump. The New Deal was able to keep things going until World War 2 lifted the economy back up out of its slump. Until this happened, an entire generation experienced many hardships during the Great Depression and learned many lessons from them. These lessons, like saving money and being competitive would shape the way these people lived for the rest of their lives.…
Every book has a skeleton. The skeleton is the structure, it is what helps mold it into a full-fledged book, and not words thrown together. In The Grapes of Wrath, the structure is different than other books. The narrator does not only observe just the Joads, they also observe a broad number of people and sometimes the thoughts of a random, unnamed individual. This structure is referred to as interchapters, and this structure allows Steinbeck to provide background information, evoke a relation between the reader and the book, and evoke emotion in the reader.…
There is something mysterious about the reason why people feel the need to look out for one another. In some cases, it is like humans feel a certain obligation of compassion. The Grapes of Wrath encourages this part of human nature. During the Joad’s westbound journey, the characters were held face to face with people who needed help just as much as they did. In this way, John Steinback presents the question: how can we as humans support the livelihood of one another? His answer is that humans must support each other’s livelihood by providing what others are deprived of.…
In the early 1930s, a severe drought struck the region, drying the upper layers of already extremely loose topsoil. Heavy windstorms declined, carrying the dust in thick black clouds. These black clouds were so dark that livestock were sometimes fooled into thinking that night had come. The dust collected in huge drifts, sometimes covering homes and farms, and once productive farmland became dry. Citizens of the affected regions started referring to their home as the “Dust Bowl,” and they quickly began to experience severe economic difficulties. The Depression economy had already caused serious problems for many farmers, and the need for workable crops led to tons of foreclosures by the banks. Conditions drove many groups of farmers to become migrant workers. The devastation of the dust bowl and the outcome it had is the major point in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.…
The Great Depression was a tragedy for the whole world, but it mostly damaged specifically one country, which had the best economic system in the world at that time - United States of America. The Great Depression was an economic collapse from 1930s to 1940s. This economic disaster was brought to life because of a huge amount of problems. There even were different types of problems, such as social, political, economic, or military problems. All together, they created this economic collapse.…
Chapter seven might as well have turned The Grapes of Wrath into how to force misfortunate people to buy cars. The author’s tone turns invective during this character’s lines, and this must of been how back in the Great Depression people cursed each other. The tone also creates hate toward the car salesmen, and maybe this is where the stereotype of sales people being thieves. Tenant farmers are placed as the prey instead of the predators which is the precedent of what this books is. Steinbeck is the attorney of people whose freedom of speech right is insignificant and suppression by the public who sees them as the problem.…
Economically during The Great Depression the United States suffered greatly, with over 13 million Americans losing their jobs from 1929 to 1933, Upper class Americans were affected greatly, due to the 80% decline in the value of the stock market. During the first four years of the Depression (1929-1933), two out of every five banks in America closed, resulting in the loss of over $7 billion in their customer’s money.…
In John Steinbeck’s proletarian novel, The Grapes of Wrath, he uses foreshadowing to characterize Casy, Tom, and Ma. Foreshadowing is when events hint to the future. By using foreshadowing to characterize, it helps the reader understand the novel.…