Quotes From 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

“‘Have I ever let you down?’ he asked Brian and me and then turned and walked away. In a voice so low that Dad didn’t hear him, Brian said, ‘Yes’” (Walls 78).

A. In this passage, Miss Sadie is talking to Abilene about how even though something is dry or dead, it can still thrive. When they are discussing this, they are at Miss Sadie's Divining Parlor. They are speaking because Miss Sadie didn't agree with Abilene's opinion that everything is dry.

Chapter Four “The police won't do anything. These interahamwe are part of the government. Don't talk to them, don't even look at them especially since your Tutsi.” (Pg. 34) During this time of the book Immaculee was traveling with John to visit her friend Sarah and her parents.

Step 1: Call to Adventure Hazel’s brother, Fiver, disturbs peace throughout the Sandleford warren when he has a dream that terrible things will happen to the warren. Fiver insists that everyone should leave the warren immediately but nobody listens to him except for a few rabbits. Quoted evidence: “Oh Hazel!

The dust bowl was a tragic time in America for so many families and John Steinbeck does a great job at getting up-close and personal with one family to show these tragedies. In the novel, “The Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck employed a variety of rhetorical devices, such as asyndeton, personification and simile, in order to persuade his readers to enact positive change from the turmoil of the Great Depression. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck tells the fictional narrative of Tom Joad and his family, while exploring social issues and the hardships of families who had to endure the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Steinbeck’s purpose was to challenge readers to look at

The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.” (1) this quote is significant because it shows the narrator’s point of view on how women deal with things.

As the plot is established, one realizes that Sonny has been arrested for using heroin and sent to rehabilitation. Consequently, Sonny's brother is so disappointed in him that he initially refuses to even contact him until he writes a letter to inform Sonny of his daughter's death. When Sonny responds, the first words he writes are, "You don't know how much I needed to hear from you" (6). This opening sentence jolts Sonny's brother into realizing that at the moment his brother needed him the most, he did not even bother to at least acknowledge him.

“… Dick saw a man, who was his own age- twenty- eight or thirty. He could have been ‘a gambler or lawyer or maybe a gangster from Chicago.’ Whatever he was he looked as though he knew the glories of money and power… All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it. Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing? … With a knife in his hand, he, Dick, had the power. Big shots… like that better be careful or he might ‘open them up and let their luck spill on the floor’” (201).

Once Sonny has moved towards rehabilitation for his drug addiction, the narrator faces a tragedy within his own home when his young daughter falls ill and passes away. But the death of his daughter prompted the narrator to take steps toward reconnecting with his brother. The narrator jumps to a letter from Sonny after stating “And I didn’t write Sonny or send him anything for a long time. When I finally did, it was just after my little girl died . . .” (Baldwin 126).

In his novel Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck integrated many biblical references and values throughout the book. This provided a more intriguing and complex style of writing that he used to tell about the Dust Bowl of the early 1900’s and the arduous journey the Joad family and many others took to reach California.

The characters face the issue of trying to not suffer while knowing there is no way of accomplishing it. Everyone, not just Sonny, is going through a struggle between looking on the bright side and allowing real issues to arise. After the narrator reads about his brother, he thinks back to their childhood, when Sonny was ‘‘wild, but he wasn’t crazy.’’ Made it through a day teaching classes, Sonny’s brother goes to a friend of Sonny, and the friend is being honest about how good it feels to get high when Sonny asked him about drugs. He also tries to explain what it is like to be on drugs, and why Sonny got on drugs, but the narrator just ends up more angry and

The beginning of "Sonny's Blues" marks an awakening for the narrator. He is faced with Sonny's drug addiction problem. His own grief for the loss of his daughter focuses a new perception. "My trouble made his real" (245). Now the narrator tries to truly understand his younger brother and what he wants out of his life. The narrator must finally come to know his baby brother in order to understand the menace that he had almost died trying to escape. He realizes that he must come to terms with a failure, "the fact that had held silence- so long!- when (Sonny) had needed human speech to help him," in order to find a new relationship with his brother (248). The narrator realizes the truth in his mother's advice to him before she died. "You got to let him know you's there," and in doing so Sonny's brother allow his silence to be challenged by Sonny's account of his suffering and by the music that is Sonny's lifeline (240).

The Grapes of Wrath is set in the horrible stage of our American history, the Depression. Economic, social, and historical surroundings separate the common man of America into basically the rich and poor. A basic theme is that man turns against one another in a selfish pride to only protect themselves. For example, the landowners create a system in which migrants are treated like animals and pushed along from one roadside camp to the next. They are denied decent wages and forced to turn against their fellow scramblers to simply survive.

Ma Joad was the main character in "The Grapes of Wrath" and John Steinbeck had done a great job by describing the mother. Ma Joad had a big role in the Joad family. Her role was to keep her family's hopes and keep them happy. I found an evidence to support my answer by picking the quote from the book, “And since Old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged fear or hurt. She had practiced denying them in herself. And since when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”(Page 74, Steinbeck) and its said that Ma Joad will acknowledge the feelings the family supposed to feel. When Ma Joad is happy, her family will be happy.

Marcus appeared to be depressed this was evident in his body language and mood. Marcus required verbal prompting and encouragement to participate in the session. Marcus stated, that he was feeling depress, however could not state what he was depressed about. Marcus stated, that he has more negative thoughts and he is not sure why he having negative thoughts. Marcus was able to correctly identify the negative thoughts in the cartoon. Marcus stated that he was thinking of a way to starve himself, because he wants to harm himself and could not think of any other way to do it. Marcus stated, that he do not know what triggered the thought. Marcus stated that he will not starve himself, because his mother, father and brother cares about him, and