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- We are not told about all the hungry and cold days of no work before the 12 days with work.
- When poor people have something, they share with other poor people
(They could have said nothing. They could have chosen to save their food for themselves - they might need it later when the job is over (the situation of migrant workers in California).)
- Steinbeck's (1902-1968) themes: Poor migrant workers.
"His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists." (Wikipedia)
The narrator:
A traveling man.
What do we get to know about him? Nothing.
The men (father and son?) and the woman (the son's wife, young mother?):
"We have twelve days' work so far."
"They even got new clothes."
"We been eating good for twelve days."
(p. 46)
"Fyou want to pick cotton, we could maybe get you on."
(p. 47)
What is not told in this story?
- Eyes: "The eastern mountains were black-blue" (p. 44), "lavender-grey" (p. 45), "flash of orange fire" (p. 45)
- Ears: "...the bacon cricked and rustled as it grew crisp." (p. 46)
- Smell: "I could smell frying bacon and baking bread, the warmest, pleasantest odors I know." (p. 45)
- Taste: "The older man filled his mouth full and he chewed and chewed and swallowed", "the hot bitter coffee."
- Touch: "And it was cold, not painfully so..." (p. 45), "I came near to the stove and stretched my hands out to it and shivered all over when the warmth struck me." (p. 45)
Pleasant - beautiful (the mountains - the meal - the girl and her baby).
A man walks in the mountains
(California - what Steinbeck writes about).
It is early morning and it is very cold.
He meets a family who are preparing breakfast.
They invite him to join them.
He enjoys his breakfast very much.
He walks on.