Chris Sun AP English 8/14/11 Summer Close Reading Essay The Joad Family as a Land Turtle Just over half of the thirty chapters of The Grapes of Wrath are intercalary chapters‚ chapters deviating from the main narrative of the Joads that focus on a broader picture of the landscape and history of the Joad era. The Grapes of Wrath is as much historical record and social commentary as it is a narrative of one family’s odyssey through the Great Depression West. While criticized by some as distracting
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Outsourced Jobs in America Outsourcing has continued to grow at an astounding rate over the last fifteen rates. The similarities between job outsourcing and The Grapes of Wrath extend much deeper than what may be seen at the surface. Similar to how migrants fled to California due to fake advertising of jobs in newspapers‚ many immigrants migrate to America in search of a better job‚ only to find that the jobs that they are seeking are being transferred to developing countries. Over the last seven
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goals. Because inequalities and discrimination often prevent people from achieving their dreams‚ the literary works The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck‚ Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston‚ and The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus redefine the American Dream as a goal for the equality of all people despite their economic class‚ ethnicity or social status. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck portrays the American Dream as a dream for equality between economic classes. In the 1930s‚
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of domination. In John Steinbeck ’s masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath"‚ the Joads are oppressed in many ways. The bank‚ the "monster"‚ and big business owners are all seen as oppressors. But through this‚ the Joads remain resolute‚ in a way; oppression even strengthens the bonds between them‚ as they continue their exodus to the "promised land". While the maxim is that oppression always has an adverse effect on people‚ in Steinbeck ’s "The Grapes of Wrath"‚ oppression and hardship actually benefit
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solve the problem. They have a duty to protect us from our enemies. They have an obligation to keep peace among ourself and other nations. Most important‚ the government has an obligation to help those in need throughout the whole nation. In the book “Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck‚ shows a true definition of how a community should look and act in chapter 17. He focuses not only in individual but how the whole nation suffers injustice due to economic crisis. In contrary‚ Henry David Thoreau wrote
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The 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath depicts the hardships and struggles of the colorful and dysfunctional Joad family in every shade of black and white available. When the Great Depression hits‚ the Joads‚ who make their living as sharecroppers‚ are forced off their land and made to look west for any chance of finding a job. As the family’s numbers dwindle‚ they face the reality of the lack of work even in dreamlike California. From digging ditches to picking peaches and cotton
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The Story begins with Granny Weatherall already lying on her deathbed. Granny is having mental flashbacks as the end of her life approaches like "a fog [rising] over the valley." Porter uses the foggy weather to show the cloudiness and disillusionment that Granny seems to be receiving as the end of her life becomes more and more apparent. Granny recalls events throughout her life‚ from being left at the altar on her wedding day‚ (her first "jilting") to losing a child‚ to coming to an understanding
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Susan Willis is a very intelligent woman that is an English Professor at the University of Duke. Even though she has a high intellect‚ Willis often views her surroundings through a skewed point of view. Because Willis is a communist‚ she tries to belittle anything positive about a democratic organization. Having such a biased opinion makes Susans remarks fairly invalid. At the very beginning of Willis’s essay she says “spontaneity is so great that spontaneity itself has been programmed.”Not even
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Tom reflects at the beginning of the chapter while his mom does the laundry. California looms in the distance a tempting eden. Yet… it could just be a scam. That doubt scares all of the family on some level. Talking more about prison‚ Tom says that the only way to stay sane is to take one day at a time. To not think of the future because it will make a man go crazy. Personally‚ I use this same method during school or else I would probably go bonkers as well. As for grandpa‚ he is in a different
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which “drop and dry with black shreds hanging from them”. The purple prunes‚ which now “carpet the ground”‚ fill the valley with “the odor of sweet decay”. Pears are left to be devoured by the yellowjackets‚ and give off a smell of “ferment and rot”. Grapes are not good enough to make good wine‚ and the wine that is made from them is “the smell of decay and chemicals”. As we can see‚ the text goes into quite a lot of detail in the description of the different fruits decaying all over the State. Fruits
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