Plot
How does the chapter start?
A description of people preparing for the dance.
They are readying their finest clothes
Excited mood, everyone is excited for the dance
What is the following rhetorical device?
"And when the washroom was vacant for a moment, he[Al] smiled engagingly at himself in the mirror, and he turned and tried to see himself in profile when he smiled."
What is Indirect characterization?
What is a major theme at the beginning of the chapter? (hint: people are gettng ready for a dance)
What is hope?
Why does Huston tell the other men to keep watch?
What is to suppress any revolts before they start?
What do the Jesus Lovers disapprove of? And who does it affect?
What is Dancing and affects Rose of Sharon? (give me a break)
What happens at the end of the chapter?
What is the men talk about "Mountain People" and how change is coming?
What literary device is used?
"On Saturday morning the wash tubs were crowded. The women washed dresses, pink ginghams, and flowered cottons, and they hung them in the sun and stretched the cloth to smooth it. When afternoon came the whole camp quickened and the people grew excited. The children caught the fever and were more noisy than usual." (331)
What is mood?
What does the migrants enjoying their time together show?
What is unity/togetherness?
What conflict does Pa Joad discuss with Black Hat?
What are strikes and lower pay for workers?
Who is the chairman of the camp committee who hires men to look out for instigators?
Who is Ezra Huston?
What is Tom's role at the dance?
Watching for troublemakers trying to disrupt the dance.
What rhetorical device is the following?
"And the children broke from restraint, dashed on the floor, chased one another madly, ran, slid, stole caps, and pulled hair."
What is Asyndeton?
What theme emerges when Huston questions the prisoners on why they disrupted the dance?
What is survival?
Why do the police show up?
What is to shut down the dance, because they were working with the disruptors?
Who goes to the event but decides not to dance?
Who is Rose of Sharon? (because of the effect it might have on her baby)
Who questions the prisonors and how do they respond?
What is Huston, and the prisonors don't answer his questions?
What rhetorical strategy is in the following text?
"They’s a car with six men parked down by the euc’lyptus trees, an’ they’s one with four men up that northside road. I ast ’em for a match. They got guns."
What is heavy slang
What is the theme involved in the story about the mountain people unionizing?
What is humans have their greatest strength in numbers (community)
Who were the mountain men and what were they doing?
What is native americans and they were shooting turkeys to show how the group is stronger than the individual?
What is the story of the mountain people?
(It's worth a lot of points, I have high expectations for you)