"But- you see, a bank or a company can't do that , because those creatures don't breathe air, don't eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat. It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so."
-pg. 43
“ The land turtles crawled through the dust and the sun whipped the earth . . . the earth sent up a wave of heat from itself”
pg. 222
“Grandma had convulsions from the heat”
pg. 222
“She got to lay her head down in California”
pg.311
“It don’t take no nerve to do somepin when there ain’t nothin’ else you can do."
pg. 301
“Rose of Sharon loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast. ‘You got to,’ she said. She squirmed closer and pulled him close. ‘There!’ she said. ‘There.’ Her hand moved behind his head and supported it.”
pg.619
“I says, ‘Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippin’ the hell out of ourselves for nothin’.’…Before I knowed it, I was sayin’ out loud, ‘The hell with it! There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain’t nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.’”
pg. 56
“I ain’t sayin’ I’m like Jesus…But I got tired like Him, an’ I got mixed up like Him, an’ I went into the wilderness like Him, without no campin’ stuff…Sometimes I’d pray like I always done. On’y I couldn’ figure what I was prayin’ to or for. There was the hills, an’ there was me, an’ we wasn’t separate no more. We was one thing. An’ that one thing was holy.”
pg. 125
“They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't lonely any more. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad, cause it ain't a lonely hurt no more, Rosasharn. I wisht I could tell you so you'd know, but I can't.”
pg. 465
The people in flight from the terror behind—strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
pg. 245
“But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember—all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn' have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole. Funny how I remember. Didn' think I was even listenin'. But I know now a fella ain't no good alone.”
pg. 576
And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right—the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
Tiny points of grass came through the earth, and in a few days the hills were pale green with the beginning year.
pg. 592
Jim Casy is the Ex-preacher of the Joad's church, Jim has since fell from grace almost literally for his relations with young women in his congregations. he embodies self sacrifice and finds faith in the power of united human spirit and the common good of man kind.
“I says, ‘Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippin’ the hell out of ourselves for nothin’.’…Before I knowed it, I was sayin’ out loud, ‘The hell with it! There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain’t nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.’”
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pg. 48
“maybe it's all men an’ all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit—the human sperit—the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.’ Now I sat there thinkin’ it, an’ all of a suddent—I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it.”
pg. 46
“I ain’t sayin’ I’m like Jesus…But I got tired like Him, an’ I got mixed up like Him, an’ I went into the wilderness like Him, without no campin’ stuff…Sometimes I’d pray like I always done. On’y I couldn’ figure what I was prayin’ to or for. There was the hills, an’ there was me, an’ we wasn’t separate no more. We was one thing. An’ that one thing was holy.”
pg. 47
Tom Joad is the Novel's protagonist and the acting head of the family until his departure close to the end of the novel and dedicating his life to organization of improvement of the migrant worker movement and struggle. He is strong willed, wily and stoic with a heinous disdainment of injustice resulting in rage that often gets the better of him.
“…sometimes a guy'll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker.”
pg. 32
And now they [the Joads] were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them.
pg. 236
“But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember—all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn' have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole. Funny how I remember. Didn' think I was even listenin'. But I know now a fella ain't no good alone.”
pg. 563
"Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."
-Thomas Jode
The Grapes of Wrath
Work Cited:
John Steinbeck: Born whenver don't care , don't like his books or his hat.
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German anagram- hotmas doje
hotmas- Bat
Doje- man.
Characters
Jim Casy
Tom Joad
Quotes:
Faith & Guilt
Humanity and the Joad's in particular
present great indomitability to the
challenges they face in life, and the
perseverance despite opposite, man
nature or otherwise.
"Owners with rolled up sleeves. Salesmen, neat, deadly, small intent eyes watching for weaknesses."
pg. 83
Watch the woman's face. If the woman likes it we can screw the old man. Start' em on the Cad'. Then you can work 'em down to that '26 Buick. 'F you start on the Buick, they'll go for a Ford. Roll up your sleeves an' get to work. This ain't gonna last forever. Show 'em that Nash while I get the slow leak pumped on that '25 Dodge. I'll give you a Hymie when I'm ready.
pg. 84
Jim, corral that old bastard on the sidewalk. Don't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Try him on that Apperson. Say, where is that Apperson? Sold?
pg. 84
"Three dollars a day. I got damn sick of creeping for my dinner-- and not getting it. I got a wife and kids. We got to eat. Three dollars a day, and it comes everyday."
pg. 48
"What do you want us to do? We can't take less share of the crop-- we're half starved now. The kids are hungry all the time. We got no clothes, torn an' ragged. If all the neighbors weren't the same, we'd be ashamed to go to meeting
Throughout the story of the Joad family Steinbeck consistently points out to the fact that the struggle of the migrant workers is caused by not the dust bowls but by the upper class men who forced them off their land and into migration across the country in poverty.
The Dignity of Wrath.
"And now the owner men grew angry. You'll have to go. But it;s ours, the tenant men cried. We-- No. The bank, the monster owns it. You'll have to go."
"Well--first the sheriff, and then the troops. You'll be stealing if you try to stay, you'll be murderers if you kill to stay. The monster isn't men, but it can make me do what it wants."
Explanation:
Man's Inhumanity to Man!
Let it Go, Dust-bowl!
Vol XCIII, No. 311
Monday, March 17, 1936
Connor Masten