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California's great failure.
What is to feed the people?
California's crime
This chapter has a conversational style. The effect is an intimate and lively portrayal of the daily life of the migrants.
What is Chapter 27?
"The works of the roots, of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price."
What is repetition?
This system is criticized in Chapter 25.
What is capitalism?
It's not good, because the crop it's made from is rotting. But people buy it anyway because it's still alcohol.
What is wine?
What are rocks?
This is created by the descriptions of the burning and dumped food.
What is emphasis on the waste?
"White cotton spilling out like popcorn."
What is simile?
This metaphor represents the anger of the migrants and their move towards revolution.
What is the growing grapes of wrath?
The price of cotton bags.
What is one dollar?
The farmer's motivation for destroying the crops.
What is to protect the money?
The symbolism behind the lack of quotation marks in the dialogue.
What is universal experience?
"And the smell of rot fills the country."
What is metaphor?
The two biggest concerns for cotton pickers
What are cotton-picking machines and running out of crop to pick (especially before the bag is paid off)?
This is turned into summer drawers, nightshirts, or other clothing items once it's worn out.
What is the cotton bag?
This is sprayed over the golden mountains.
What is kerosene?
The diction in this chapter is simple and declarative, yet highly stylized and symbolic.
What is Chapter 25?
"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success."
What is anaphora?
These overarching themes of the novel are represented in chapters 25 & 27.
What is survival/naturalism, and criticism of capitalism?
Where the grapes of wrath are found at the end of Chapter 25.
What is in people's souls?
These three actions are taken with excess food.
What is burning, burying, and dumping into a river?
The descriptions of the kids working in the cotton fields represents this theme.
What is family as a unit?
An' when she's wore out, draggin', turn 'er aroun', use the other end. Sew up the open end. Open up the wore end.
What is epistrope?
DAILY DOUBLE (1000 pts): The disease children die from in Chapter 25.
What is pellagra?