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Grapes Of Wrath
setting- Late 1930s, Oklahoma, and California
Main Characters- Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Jim Casy, Uncle John, Al Joad, Noah Joad, Rose of Sharon, Connie Rivers, Grandpa Joad and Grandma Joad
Rising action: Tom is released from prison, determined to mind his own business, and stay out of trouble.Tom then encounters the devastation of the Dust Bowl,and Casy presents Tom with his philosophy of the holiness of human beings in general, and Tom gets drawn into the workers’movement.
major conflict- The disastrous drought of the 1930s forces farmers to migrate westward to California. Tom Joad’s story shows conflict between the reaction of responding to hardship and disaster by focusing on one’s own needs and the reaction to risk one’s safety to work for the common good.
climax · A policeman murders Casy, and Tom kills the policeman, making himself an outlaw and committing himself totally to the cause of workers’ rights rather than the fortunes of his own family.
falling action- Tom’s departs from the rest of the Joad family, and Rose of Sharon nurses the starving man, and this symbolizes the communities suffering.
Tone- sympathetic
Symbols-Rose of Sharon’s pregnancy and the death of the Joads'dog
Leader Of the People
Characters: Jody, Carl (Jody's father),Jody's Grandfather, and Jody's mother.
Rising action- Jody's grandfather comes to visit, and constantly tells the same stories about leading a train of wagons across th plains. Jody loves to hear these stories an never tires of them.
Conflict- Carl, his father always complains how his father-in-law constantly re-tells the same stories about leading a train of wagons across the plains.. One morning Carl complains about the stories and is overheard when the Grandfather walks into the room.
Climax: Afterwards Jody's grandfather becomes melancholy, but admits that his stories become tiresome to listen to.
Resolution: In an attempt to console his heartbroken grandfather, he tells him he wants to be a leader just like him as well. The story ends with Jody making a lemonade for his grandfather. His mother allows him to do so because she realizes he is acting out of sympathy for his grandfather, not trying to get himself a treat.
Theme- Change destroys dreams. Grandpa's dreams were destroyed by change in his stories. The movement west was stopped by the ocean and this destroyed both Grandpa's leadership and heroic figure.
Symbols- Lemonade symbolizes Jody's maturity. He uses it as an offering to help cheer up his grandfather. This shows he is becoming less selfish.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Setting/Background Information: This book is a travelogue written by John Steinbeck. It tells of his road trip with his dog Charley in 1960.
-His travels started in Long Island, New York, and roughly followed the outer border of the United states from Maine to th Pacific Northwest. Then he made his way to his native home Salinas Valley, California,across to Texas, up through the south, and then finally back New York. This trip was nearly 10,000 miles.
- His purpose was to see the country on a personal level because he made a living writing about it.
Part One: Steinbeck tells of his specially made camper he named Rocianante, which is after the horse of Don Quiote. He slightly delayed his trip because Hurricane Donna, which struck Long Island. He then talked of how he was 58 years old, and was writing about a country he knew nothing about and wanted to explore.
Part Two: Traveled to Connecticut, and saw many of the new nuclear Submarines that were stationed on the Naval Submarine Base New London. He talked of being uncertain of the future of technology and political changes, and the wastefulness of American Cities and Society. He then departed to Deer Isle, Maine to visit his friend and former literary agent. He stopped to ask for directions and soon found that it was wise not to. The locals didn't like to talk to tourists and often gave them incorrect information. Soon after he traveled to Niagara Falls and some Midwestern cities. He took a detour in his writing to then discuss his dislike of the government. He said that the government makes a person feel small because it doesn't matter what you say, if it’s not on paper and certified by an official, the government doesn't care. As he traveled on, he described how wherever he went people’s attitudes and beliefs changed. All states differ by how people may talk to one another or treat other people.
Steinbeck then visited Seattle, Washington and California. Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California, so much of the narrative is his revisit of the area, seeing its changes and progression, particularly the population growth. He noted the changes the west had undergone since then. He said, “It was only as I approached Seattle that the unbelievable change became apparent... I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
He then visited a bar from his youth where he met and caught up with many friends, learning that a lot of regulars and childhood chums had died. He then seemed to say goodbye to his hometown for the last time.
Part 4: Steinbeck then made his way through the state of Texas, which he came to dread. Steinbeck felt that "people either passionately love or passionately hate Texas. During his journey through Texas, he stayed in Amarillo, where his faithful dog companion, Charley, became ill and stayed in a veterinary hospital for a couple of days. Steinbeck then realized how bad it would be to travel without his companion. Once Charley was out of the vet's they traveled to New Orleans. After giving a ride to a wary black man, an angry black student, and a racist white man, Steinbeck concluded that Southern people were afraid to change their way of life, and would not end segregation.
1902-1968
Characters: John Steinbeck, and his French Standard Poodle Charley.
Steinbeck's journey concludes with his jamming Rocinante across a busy New York street, during a failed attempt at making a U-turn. As he says to a traffic policeman, 'Officer, I've driven this thing all over the country - mountains, plains, deserts. And now I'm back in my own town, where I live - and I'm lost.'