MORE INFORMATION ON THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Chapter 15, Page 153 in the authorized text:
1. Page 153: Note the juxtaposition of Chapters 14 and 15.
2. Page 153: Benny Goodman-"The Big Band Era"
3. Page 153: "If I tell you will you buy a drink?"
4. Page 154: Note the importance of truck drivers.
5. Page 154: Quoit is a flattened disc used in games.
6. Page 155: Zephyr (the West Wind) an expensive and powerful Lincoln.
7. Page 155: Rich people contrasted to Okies
8. Page 155: More put-downs on businessmen
9. Page 155: Beverly-Wilshire Hotel is in the heart of downtown Beverly Hills.
10. Page 156: The Trocadero was on Sunset Blvd.
11. Page 156: "So-and-So" is the famous actress, Joan Crowford.
12. Page 156: "that fellow in the White House" is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
13. Page 156: Why are rich people referred to as shitheels?
14. Page 157: Easterners are shitheels, truck drivers are real people.
15. Page 162: The owner rigs the slot machines.
16. Page 162: Truck drivers bring life to the truck stops.
CARPE DIEM!
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INFORMATION FOR THE ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM
MORE INFORMATION ON THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Chapter 14, Page 150 of the authorized text:
1. P. 150: Why are the Western States nervous as horses before a thunder storm?
2. P. 150: Note the hints of revolution.
3. P. 150: What does Steinbeck mean by saying, "For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work...?"
4. P. 151: Reference to civil war in Spain.
5. P. 151: Is Steinbeck suggesting we should have collective farms?
6. P. 151: Note the use of "anlage" and "zygote."
7. P. 152: What does Steinbeck mean by saying, "This is the beginning -from "I" to "we?"
8. P. 152: " If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results , not causes, you might survive, But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I" and cuts you off forever from the "we." Is this a plea for the establishment of Communism?
PAX DEORUM SIT SEMPER VOBISCUM!
Chapter 14, Page 150 of the authorized text:
1. P. 150: Why are the Western States nervous as horses before a thunder storm?
2. P. 150: Note the hints of revolution.
3. P. 150: What does Steinbeck mean by saying, "For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work...?"
4. P. 151: Reference to civil war in Spain.
5. P. 151: Is Steinbeck suggesting we should have collective farms?
6. P. 151: Note the use of "anlage" and "zygote."
7. P. 152: What does Steinbeck mean by saying, "This is the beginning -from "I" to "we?"
8. P. 152: " If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results , not causes, you might survive, But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I" and cuts you off forever from the "we." Is this a plea for the establishment of Communism?
PAX DEORUM SIT SEMPER VOBISCUM!
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