INFORMATION FOR THE ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM

MORE ON THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Chapter 23 (already covered in class):

1. This is another chapter without the Joads.
2. Entertainments in the camps
3. Story of the naked Indian shot on the hilltop
4. How does this Indian story relate to the story of the Joads?
5. Relating a movie scenario
6. Cinematic allusion to Hollywood scandals
7. Newsreels shown after the films
8. Religious reformers are accused of not biting deep enough to know how miserable they are.
9. The narrator states he has joined the "brotherhood of the worlds." We have discussed Steinbeck's use of the word world before. What does it mean here?
10. Musical entertainments
11. Dancing at the camps-remember Mrs. Sandry's attack on dancing.
12. Famous cowboy song: "...I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen, all wrapped in white linen and cold as the snow..."
13. Traveling preachers' routine: calculating them, gauging them, and when they were squirming on the ground, throwing them in the water.
14. Saved is the same as "born again."

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