Vocabulary
What is 40 acres?
"The Grapes of ____"
What is Wrath?
Migrants that are considered dirty, ignorant, and thieves from the Western states.
What is an Okie?
Chiricahua Apache leader
What is Geronimo?
In Chapter 23, the migrants bond over shared issues and helping others through sharing stories, forming communities, and moments of pleasure promote the idea of this theme.
What is unity?
What are Injuns?
"And the anger began to ____"
What is ferment?
Steinbeck's mode of rhetoric emphasizes the idea that, on top of the mistreatment of migrants, they receive more and more until the anger ferments. (Hint: And...And...And)
What is repetition?
The type of story an ex-veteran shares about his experience of shooting a boy as a method of pleasure.
What is a dehumanized war story?
The method Steinbeck uses in all intercalary chapters includes all migrants within the intercalary chapters.
What is stream of consciousness?
The term Californians used for migrants with a negative connotation.
What is an Okie?
"Those families which have lived on a little piece of land, who have lived and died on _____"
What is 40 acres?
What is thin?
4 ways to cope
Within Chapter 23, the stories of migrants' lives are portrayed graphically and to extreme detail, no matter how horrific, highlighting this theme within the entire book.
What is naturalism?
A disease that mostly affects migrant children, developed due to living in the granaries.
What is pellagra?
"The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for ____"
What is pleasure?
The insect Steinbeck describes the migrants as, as they search for work and food.
What are ants?
The migrants' remorse at his arbitrary cruelty.
What is humanity vs inhumanity?
Within chapter 21, the migrants become adapted to the hostile conditions of the west; however, in chapter 23 these migrants make jokes and tell stories but return to these degrading conditions. Together, these chapters show how fear and temporary joy intensify this major theme throughout the book.
What is the buildup of collective anger among all migrants?