Grapes of Wrath

Krystal Giffen The Grapes of peevishness collapse 1 Literary Analysis 1. A. Whats this c upstanding, this sperit? An I says, Its cut (page 23, Chapter 4). This quote is an physical exertion of an fable. The exerci blazeg of this metaphor was to verbalise the proof lector why the sermonizer doesnt vaticinate any more. The effect the metaphor had on the reader was, for them to bump into how the preacher re all toldy viewed the sperit. B. One beep starts and shoves hug drug families knocked a way(p). regorges all over infernal region now (pg. 8, Chapter 2). This quote is an example of symbolism. The truck driver practises the animal cat to describe the battalion who tractor egress croppers from their crops and home offices.The effect of using a cat to describe soulfulness was controvert. The cat description do the reader view the person who tractors come forth croppers as evil, cunning and thought slight. C. The Bank -or the ships federation- necessarily- mo tivations-insists-must have -as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and seeing which had ensnared them. (pg. 31, Chapter 5). This quote is an example of an epic simile. The use of his simile is to show the reader that the Bank or Company that takes the primer coat acts as a monster, organism meanspirited and cold. D. Can you make it with off the willow tree tree? Well, no, you arset.The willow tree is you. The p ain of that mattress t here that f justifiedlyening pain thats you. (pg. 89, Chapter 9). This quote is an example of a metaphor. The use of this metaphor is to re of late all of the families be commodiousings to them, that the belongings are indeed phonation of them. The effect of this metaphor is to show the reader how oft contemporaries the families belongings actually meant to them. E. Damn it, he said, a pick is a nice beak (umph), if you befool ap engineerment it (umph). You an the pick (umph) deceasein to ca-caher (umph) (pg. 298, Chapter 22). This quote is an example of Epizeuxis.The use and effect of this epizeuxis is to show emphasis on how heavy the pick was and how wakeless it was to roleplay back accordingly. The epizeuxis processs the reader image turkey cock working in the hot sun with the heavy pick, working for tho twenty-five cents an hour. 2. A. You lie with the drop off is poor. Youve scrabbled at it long enough, perfection knows. The squatting tenant hands nodded and wondered and drew figures in the dust, and yes, they knew, God knows The thrower men went on take to their point You know the lands detectting poorer If they could still circulate the crops they might pump blood back into the land.Well, its desirewise late A musical composition derriere hold land if he can well(p) eat and pay taxes he can do that. Yes, he can do that until his crops fail unmatchable mean solar day and he has to suck dumpion from the bank a bank or a company cant do that, because those c reatures dont breathe air, dont eat side-meat. They breather profits they eat the interest on m oney Cant we just hang on? peradventure the next year will be a obedient year. God knows how much cotton next year Next year, perchance We cant dep conclusion on it. The bank-the monster has to have profits all the period. It cant wait. It die.No, taxes go on The tenant system wont work anymore Youll have to name false the land. The compreh eradicatell go through the dooryard (pg. 33, Chapter 5). The importation of this act is that it shows how the Banks would take the land from the croppers and how the croppers were crushed. This transportation system relates to the work as a whole because it shows the reader how the migration to the west started, how hundreds of families would get evicted from their land and forced to move elsewhere. B. Whos in here? Ma asked. What is it you unavoidableness, mister? What you think I want?I want to know whos in here. Why, theys jus us thr ee in here. Ma an Granma an my girl. Wheres your men? Why they went shore to clean up. We was drivin all night. Whered you settle from? Right near Sallisaw, okay. Well, you cant die hard here. We aim to get let on tonight an cross the desert, mister. Well you better. If youre here tomorra this time Ill run you in. We dont want none of you settlin down here. Mister, she said, you got a tin s carceton an a gun. Where I come from, you none your voice down. She advanced on him with the skillet.He loosened the gun in the holster. Go forwards, said Ma. Scarin women/ Im thankful the men folks aint here. Theyd tear ya to pieces. In my cypherry you fool your tongue. The valet de chambre took two steps backward. Well, you aint in your pastoral now. Youre in atomic number 20, an we dont want you goddamn Okies settlin down. Yeah, Okies An if youre here when I come tomorra, Ill run ya in (pg. 215, Chapter 18). The significance of this p trampage is it shows how flavor flip-flopd so much once the Joads locomote west, they were in someone elses territory now.This passage shows how the Joads would have to change the way they acted since they moved to California. This passage relates to the work as a whole because it shows the reader how vexed and cruel it was to move to the West back during the dust bowl. People werent treated equally because of were they came from and how poor they were. C. They had no more the stomach-tearing lust for the liberal acre and a shining blade to plow it, for seed and a wind generator beating its wings in the air. They arose in the dark no more to hear the sleepy birds offshoot chittering, and the morning wind dear acres.These things were bewildered, nd crops were rechoned in dollars, and land was valued by principal plus interest, and crops were bought and sell in the start dwelling house they were planted. Then crop failure, drouth, and flood were no eternal minute deaths within life, notwithstanding simp le losses of money. And all their spot was attenuate with money, and all their fierceness dribbled away in interest until they were no longer farmers at all, tho piffling shop lifeers of crops, little manufacturers who must sell out calculate they can yield. Then those farmers who were not good shop declareers lost their land to good shop hold upers.No offspring how cl ever so, how loving a man might be with creation and growing things, he could not survive if he were not withal a good shopkeeper. And as time went on, the business men had the farms, and the farms grew larger, however on that point were fewer of them (pg. 231-232, Chapter 19). The significance of this passage is it shows the reader how the land employ to be owned by large number, farmers, who love the land and cared for the land but it winded into a business over the years. Farming wasnt closely(predicate) the feel or love anymore, it was all round money.This passage relates to the work as a whole b ecause the whole book is about how money can affect the great unwashed, how ownership can turn into something terrible and turn hoi polloi over against each other(a). D. She sat down and opened the cuff. Inside were letters, clippings, photographs, a pair of earrings a little gold signet ring and a watch chain braided of hair and tipped with gold swivels For a long time she held the box, looking over it, and her fingers disturbed the letters and thence run along them up again And at last she do up her header She took a letter from an envelope and dropped the trinkets in the envelope.She folded the envelope and put it in her dress pocket She lifted the stove hat and laid the box gently among the coals. Quickly the heat browned the paper She re focalized the stove lid and instantly the fire sighed up and breather over the box (pg. 108, Chapter 10). The significance of this passage is it shows the reader how its so hard for the Joads to just give up all their belongings and dro p dead. This relates to the figment as a whole because it shows how during the dust bowl you had to give up a lot if you precious to survive. E. I know, Ma. Im a-tryin. precisely them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn have a fat ass? An they waggle their ass an flop their gun aroun. Ma, he said, if it was the law they was workin with, why, we could take it. But it aint the law. Theyre a-workin away at our spirits. Theyre a-tryin to make us cringe an crawl homogeneous a whipped bitch. They tryin to shift key us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the ony way a fella can keep his decency is by takin a fuck at a cop. Theyre workin on our decency (pg. 278-279, Chapter 20). The significance of this passage is it shows how blush the law was corrupt do to greediness.The deputies were corrupt so they could eat, feed their family and feel powerful. This passage relates to the work as a whole because it shows how people change once hunger and stable living comes in to play. The people who have vigor are honest and look out for each other temporary hookup people who have something do everything in their power to keep it, level(p) if that means corrupting whats right. Part 2 Plot, Setting, Themes and Vocabulary 3. turkey cock Joad- A progeny man, the favorite tiddler of the Joad family. tom turkey went to jail for cleansing a man at a bar fight, but he got put on parole after 4 years in prison for his good record.He doesnt regret what he did, he tied(p) says hed do it again if he had to. tom turkey is the one who guides his family throughout the book, acting as the protector of the family. 4. toms single-valued function in the point was to lead the Joad family to California and to make current he could do everything in his well-being to make living possible for him and his family. turkey cock is a kinetic fount, he changes when on that point are different people around. He knows when he contains to keeps pushing or when he needs to stop. 5. Tom is related to the majority of the other characters.Toms kin with Casy is that they met when Tom was hard-hitting for his family, and they helped each other out because they knew what each other was going through. Tom and Floyd are very similar in that they want they same thing, they want to do good for their family. Tom was the once who suggested that common ivy and Sairy Wilson kick the bucket with the Joads. Muley Graves- A author inhabit of the Joads. Helped Tom key out his family when he starting got out of jail. Muley got evicted from his house just similar the Joads but he couldt leave the land, his family leftover him for California. 4.Muleys function in the chronicle was to help Tom rally his family when he got out of jail and went back home. Muley was a still character who just showed his fretfulness towards the bankers and Willy. 5. Muley was the Joads neighbor back in Oklahoma, and used to go to church service where Casy was the preacher. M a Joad- Ma Joad is the mother of the Joad family, shes the one who is trying to keep the family together throughout the whole book. She takes on all her motherly duties without the blink of an eye. She is surd and wont get pushed around easily but doesnt know when not to chat up when she is getting pushed around. . Mas subroutine in the tommyrot was to hold the family together and be strong when no one else could. She helped the family stay together though all the tough times. Ma was a participating character who changes a lot throughout the study. She was very quiet at the being of the novel but once the story progressed she got more point-blank and outspoken. 5. Ma is the mother of all the Joad family. She used to bring the Joads to the church that Casy used to preach at. The Wilsons helped Ma out by sacramental manduction the food they had with the whole Joad family.Pa Joad- The tenant farmer who got evicted from his farm, the father of the Joad family and married to Ma Joad. erst he got evicted he focused on getting the family to California. Once they got to California Pa wasnt able to find work and became weaker than Ma and became desperate. 4. Pas purpose was to help the family get to California and find work once they got there. Since Pa didnt find work, he helped Ma out. Pa is a static character who doesnt change much during the book. 5. Pa is the father of the Joad father and went to the church that Cast used to preacher at.Pa helped any way he could with the Wilsons car when it was broken-down. Jim Casy- Jim was a former preacher until he gave it up because he got to thinking that the sperit he believed in so much was just love, and the other spirit wasnt in him anymore. He goes along with the Joad family to California but beforehand he could find a excogitate he got arrested to protect Tom during a fight between laborers and a deputy from the California police. During the trip to California he helps the Joad family out a lot by praying f or both Granma and Granpa Joad when they passed. 4.Casys purpose in the story was to the Joad family by praying when it needed to be done like at Granma and Granpa Joads deaths. Casy was a dynamic character because at the set-back of the story he was alone because he didnt want to preach anymore but as the story moved on he preached when he had to and he excessively saved Tom and Floyd by braggart(a) himself in. 5. Jim Casy used to the preacher that the Joad family used to go to, he baptized Tom when he was younger. Casy helped Floyd out by giving himself up instead of allow Tom and Floyd take the blame. Casy was the preacher of Muleys family too.Noah Joad- The counterbalance born of the Joad family. He was deformed at birth because Pa panicked during the delivery and time-tested to pull him out. He felt that he wasnt as love as the other Joad children so he left the family at a stream near the California border, saying he was better off there. 4. Noahs purpose in the story wa s to help the family get to California. Noah could be both a dynamic or a static character because throughout the whole story he didnt change much but at the river he took a bold step and left the family. 5. Noah was the oldest son of the Joad family, who used to go see Casy preach.Noah neer met Floyd and Muley used to be his neighbor. move of Sharon (Rosasharn)- the oldest miss in the Joad family who is married to Connie. She journeys to California with Connie and the Joad family while being pregnant. The couple imagines how life will be once they get to California but once reality hits Connie abandons her during their primary stop in California, and her shaver is born dead. 4. rose wine of Sharons purpose in the book was to be strong when so many bad things happen in life all at once. come up of Sharon showed how you had to be mature and strong even out though live was tough.Rose of Sharon was a dynamic character because at outgrowth she was love struck but then she start ed acting immature and babyish. But by the end of the book she ripe and was a strong woman. 5. Rose of Sharon was the oldest daughter in the Joad family. She used to be preached by Jim Casy and was married the Connie. Ivy and Sairy Wilson were friends while they traveled together. Connie- He is Rose of Sharons husband who has phantasmagoric dreams with his wife. He dreams too much and in brief abandons Rose of Sharon to go call for tractors and to hopefully get paid 3 dollars and hour. His divergence surp plagiarises only Rose of Sharon. . Connies purpose in the story was to leave the Joad family to show how stress, clinical depression and money can really move some people. Connie was withal a dynamic character because he was in love with Rose of Sharon for the whole story until they got to California and reality hit that getting a job was harder than they both thought. Connie left the Joad family in hopes that he would be able to make 3 dollars a day back in Oklahoma. 5. Con nie was married to Rose of Sharon making him a brother in-law and son in-law of the Joad family. Casy was just an acquaintance of Connie. Connie never met Muley or Floyd.Granma Joad- Granma loved having Casy around because she was a Christian. She too loved to torment Granpa Joad just like he did her. Once Granpa died she started to slow die herself, she dies right after the Joad family reaches California. 4. Granmas purpose in the story was to show even though she was dying the family never left her after part because she was family. Granma was static character because while Granpa was alive all they did was rise hell with each other but once he didnt she got re alterless and didnt talk or do much. 5. Granma Joad was the mother of Pa and the Granma of the Joad children.She loved Casy because she was a devoted Christian and he was a preacher. Granma Joad appreciated the help of the Wilsons during Granpas death. Granma never met Floyd. Granpa Joad- He was the one who ran the Indi ans off of the land to make the Joad farm possible, is now old and feeble. He loves to torment his wife and family. He is connected to the land and didnt want to leave it for California, but Tom drugged him to get him to come. On their first stop along the journey Granpa dies of a stroke, most likely a heat stroke. 4. Granpas purpose in the story was to show his love for the land was stronger that anything else.Once he left the land he got sick and died. Granpa was a dynamic character because during the whole story he would just rise hell for the whole family but then once he was about to die he broke down and started crying. 5. Granpa Joad was the father of Pa and the Granpa of the Joad children. Granpa like Casy because he would pray for his wife. Granpa Joad never really met the Wilsons but they helped him out tremendously by giving him a tent to die in. Granpa never met Floyd and was the neighbor of Muley. Al Joad- 16-year old son of the Joad family. His main interest is in girl s and cars.He was responsible for the whole family on the long voyage to California because the car was his responsibility. If something happened to the car it would have been his fault, resulting in the suffering of his family. He looks up to Tom throughout the book, but soon becomes his own man. He falls in love with Agnes Wainwright while working and stays with her instead of leaving with his family. 4. Als purpose in the story was to help keep the car running on their journey to California. Al made legitimate the car kept running all the way to California and made sure it never broke down.Al was a dynamic character because he was some what immature at the beginning of the story but he ended up acting very mature by the end of the story. He was idolized Tom, but soon grew up to be his own man. 5. Al was the middle son of the Joad family. He helped Floyd fix his car before they had to flee the Hooverville. Al helped the Wilsons by fixing their car too. Casy made sure Al wasnt aro und when he got arrested so their wouldnt be any connection to Tom. Ivy and Sairy Wilson- The Joads met the Wilsons on their first night stop on their journey to California.Both of the Wilsons were sweet and nice, they lent their tent to the Joads so that Granpa Joad would have a comfortable place to die. To return the favor Al and Tom fixed their broken-down car, and then they two families decided to travel to California together. During the journey their car break away down again and Al and Tom fix it again but before they can move on the Wilsons said they couldnt move on because of Sairys health. 4. The Wilsons purpose in the story was to help the Joad family by sharing their food and their car with them. The Wilsons showed the reader that even during these tough times people could still be nice.The Wilsons were static characters always being helpful but knew because of Sairys health they would eventually have to stop. 5. The Wilsons kindred with the Joad family was they helpe d each other out, they were friends. The Wilsons liked Casy because before the Joads left the Wilsons Casy prayed for Sairy even though he didnt want to. The Wilsons never met Muley or Floyd. Uncle pot- Pas brother who is crazy, stringy and mean. John is filled with guilt and pity because years ago he didnt get a mendelevium for his 4 month pregnant wife who complained of stomach pains and died the day after from a ruptured appendix.He blames himself for her death and because of it his loneliness cuts him off from people and his appetite. 4. Uncle Johns purpose in the story was to help out in any way he could but to also show selfishness when he got depressed. Uncle John was a static character because throughout the whole story he just felt guilty and ashamed of what he did so long ago. 5. Uncle John was Pas brother and the Uncle of the Joad family. He talked to Casy about his sins a few times and appreciated the advice of Casy. Uncle John was the neighbor of Muley and never real ly met Floyd.Ruthie Joad- The sencond and youngest Joad daughter who has almost a twin-like relationship with her younger brother Winfield. During the book they do almost everything together, they feed off of each others energy. 4. Ruthies purpose in the story was to help out Ma in any way she could and some what look after Winfield whenever they were together. Ruthie was a dynamic character because at the beginning of the story she acted unintimidated but during the story we found out she was only fearless with Winfield by her side. She also acted immaturely and didnt think things through before she spoke. 5.Ruthie was the youngest daughter of the Joad family and used to be preacher by Casy. The Wilsons were companions of hers, Muley was her old neighbor and she never really met Floyd. Winfield Joad- He is the youngest Joad at the age of ten. He does everything with Ruthie. 4. Winfields purpose was to help Ma out in any way he could. Winfield was the youngest child in the story an d had to grow up during these tough times making it hard to act like normal ten year-old. Winfield was a static character because he was just a child throughout the whole story. 5. Winfield was the youngest child of the Joad family.He traveled with the Wilsons and Casy but never talked out associated with them much. Muley used to be Winfields neighbor and he never really met Floyd. Floyd Knowles- A migratory worker who Tom meets at the first Hooverville. He gives Tom word on a job up north. His outspokenness gets him into an argument with a deputy where Casy gets arrested for him and Toms sake. 4. Floyds purpose in the book was to help the Joads find work and to work with Tom in making labor unions. Floyd was a dynamic character because he seemed go know when to stop talked when he first got introduced but once the deputy came into the story he was outspoken. . Floyd helped the Joad family out by giving them word on work up north. Casy gave himself in for Floyd and Tom. Floyd never met the Wilsons or Muley. Part 3 Plot, Setting, Themes and Vocabulary 6. The central settings of the story were in Oklahoma and California. The significance of Oklahoma was that was where the whole story started. Oklahoma was were the Joad family grew up but they got evicted from their house. Oklahoma got changed while they were living there. Granpa Joad stole the land and then the land got stolen from him but the Bank Company.Oklahoma was not there home anymore so they moved on to California. California was described as beautiful land with plenty of jobs available. But once they reached California they learn that the land was beautiful but the people who owned it were not. California was repellent land because of the people who ran it. California wasnt what the Joads expected and they wanted to change that, and Tom eventually did. 7. The exposition of Grapes of Wrath is Tom gets paroled out of jail and goes to find his family. He finds out both his family and his Uncle got evict ed from their homes so they travel to California for work.The main conflict throughout the whole book is the drought of the Dust Bowl, which results in hundreds of families getting evicted from their homes and being forced to move west. The Joad family was one of those hundreds of families who had to move. The rising action in the story is the journey of the Joad family to California. Once in California the Joad family has a hard time finding work, and at the first Hooverville get into an argument with a local deputy, resulting in Casy getting arrested. The family lives at a government camp for a while but then move on to find work.One night there was a usurp at an orchard and Tom finds Casy there. Casy gets murdered by one of the policeman that was trying to stop the strike. In response, Tom kills the policeman in spite, which is the terminate of the story. Tom becomes an outlaw and has to hide from the world to protect his family. In the end Tom ends up running, leaving the rest of his family to escape and be free, which is the stoppage of the story. 8. The major themes presented in the work are Bad interposition of the migrant workers, also known as the Okies the Survival of Kinship and Growth and Maturity.Bad treatment of the migrant workers in one of the major themes in the Grapes of Wrath because all of the Okies looking for work would be blueer wages and would have to live in Hoovervilles. The workers barely made it by because of how badly they were being treated and paid but the California police and land owners. An example of this would be how the first deputy treated Floyd and Tom because they were outspoken. The Survival of Kinship is also another major theme in the Grapes of Wrath because Ma tries to keep the family together no matter what. During the Dust Bowl all you could count on was your family, no one else.Family is the only thing the Okies really had left, so they would do anything in there power to stay together. An example of holding the family together would be when Tom had to knock Uncle John out to have him move up north with the rest of the family. Growth and Maturity was also a major theme in the Grapes of Wrath. Every character grew and matured during the story, showing the reader that the only why they would be able to keep living would be to grow up and become mature. An example would be how Rose of Sharon matured after her baby was a still born. 9.Emulsion- a mixture of mutually insoluble liquids in which one is dispersed in droplets throughout the other a light-sensitive coating on photographic film or paper. Now the dust was evenly mixed with the air, an photographic emulsion of dust and air (pg. 3, Chapter 1). Insinuation- to imply in a subtle, indirect, or disingenuous way His voice had the same tonus of secrecy and insinuation his eye had (pg. 8, Chapter 2). Judiciously- having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgement The driver squinted judiciously ahead and built up the speed of the tr uck a little (pg. 8, Chapter 2). Auger- a tool for boring and sometimes they drove big earth augers into the stain for soil tests (pg. 31, Chapter 5). Beseech- to beg urgently He did not know or own or trust or beseech the land (pg. 35, Chapter 5). Leanto- A shed with a single-pitch roof attached to the side of a construction A shelter made from planks or branches raised in the front on poles. Joad paused at the entrance to the tool-shed leanto, an no tools were there (pg. 40, Chapter 6). Petulant- Unreasonably refractory or ill tempered peevish. the mouth held tight and small, the little look half scowling, half petulant (pg. 45, Chapter 5).Peddler- One who peddles for a living, a peddler also called packman. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax (pg. 48, Chapter 5). Boils- A pesky swelling of the skin and subcutaneous tissue with a hard pus-filled center, caused by bacterial infection, usually occurring at a hair follicle. Look out for boils on that jackrabbit (pg. 5 0, Chapter 5). Blazoned- To paint or depict (a coat of arms) with veracious heraldic detail to adorn or embellish with or as if with blazons to announce publicly proclaim loudly and widely the garages with blazoned signs (pg. 61, Chapter 5). Jalopy- An old, dilapidated car. educate em out in a jalopy (pg. 61, Chapter 6). Heifer- A young cow, especially one that has not yet given birth to a calf. Well, one day he takes a heifer over to Graves bull (pg. 70, Chapter 7). Meerchaum- A claylike material consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate A tobacco holler with the bowl made from this. Over old Toms unwhiskered organization bones the skin was as brown as meerschaum (pg. 71, Chapter 8). Citadel- A fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city. She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family (pg. 74, Chapter 8).Jabbering- talk rapidly and excitedly but with little sense fast, excited talk that makes little sense. All over the State, utter in the Hoovervilles (pg. 237, Chapter 19). 10. A). Why were the deputies corrupting the law and treating the Okies unfairly? B). What the importance of guardianship the family together even though Tom killed another man and was on the run from the law? C). Did Rose of Sharon do any real sin that would result in her having a still born baby? D). Was it right of Casy to give himself up for Tom, just so he could get in trouble with the law again? E). What was the outcome of the Dust Bowl?Grapes of WrathSteven Messner November 1, 2012 Changes Along the Road John Steinbecks book, The Grapes of Wrath, shows the audience future changes in America, namely the coming Industrial Revolution, and the conflict between the locals and the Okies. These themes are support by subplots of desperation, hunger, and the upcoming change in America. These subplots are particularly highlighted and illustrated in chapters 11 and 21. Steinbeck begins chapter 11 with a metaphor illustrating the coming change in the United States.The Industrial Revolution was coming and Steinbeck used this metaphor to show how machines would change the way the farmers lived their life. Steinbeck used this chapter not only for a exposure of their vacant homes but as future inference for the coming times of disconnect between farmers and their land. So easy that the wonder goes out of work, so efficient that the wonder goes out of the land and working it, and with the wonder the obscure fancying and the relation (115) Farming, to Steinbeck, was not just a way that crops were produced, but a lifestyle.Steinbeck tacit that the little things mattered to farmers and their industry. Things like the way that land was worked from generation to generation, the care and commitment that were put into the seasonal turning of the soil, and rotating the crops to make sure the land stayed well. All these things were, for the farmer, not only for this short benefit, but back up his long term goals. Hi s love for the land caused the land to love him back. Steinbeck understood this relationship between the farmers and the land.The coming Industrial Revolution would change this relationship between farmers and their land. The way of life for these farmers was changing before their very eyes. The dedication and care that farmers once needed would be swept away. And in the tractor man there grows the contempt that comes only to a stranger who has little understand and no relation (115) Steinbeck is touching on the idea that once the factory farm industry is revolutionized, there would no longer be a need for small family farmers. When the industry is revolutionized, large companies would be able to farm not bad(p) amounts of land.They would be able to mass produce crops, with little concern for quality, and ultimately, the quality of the soil itself would deplete. When the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land. (116) The revolution would not tre at the land as sacred, and the close relationship between farmers and their land would be over. In chapter 21 Steinbeck once again illustrates his larger themes using the migrants and the changes they undergo during their journey. He uses the migrants story to further illustrate his negative feelings towards big industry.In this chapter, he moves along in time to show how big industry is taking away from the verdant as a whole. Steinbeck opens the chapter by comparing the farmers who started this journey across the country and the migrants who are on the same journey now. The journey has changed these people before their very own eyes. This was a change that the Okies had to make no matter what. These people experienced being hungry for the first time, seeing their children go hungry and not be able to do anything about it. This would doubtless change a man forever. Change did indeed occur.The Okies grew angry and mean towards the locals. The local people lived in fear of the Okie s. The locals knew that there was nothing on this earth that could keep the Okies away from their food and land. This began to ferment a task between the locals and the Okies. When there was work for a man, ten men fought for it- fought with a low wage. (283) This illustrated the fact that one Okie would seemingly always charge less to work than another in order to keep a job. When there are ten men fighting for the job, the wages go from 25 cents to just working for food.This was beneficial for the owner because wages stayed so low. The Okies didnt believe their circumstances could become any worse however they would soon find out how wrong they were. They had no idea of the upcoming problems they would sheath with the large canneries. And when the peaches were ripe he cut the price of fruit infra the cost of raising it. And as cannery owner he paid himself a low price for the fruit and kept the price of canned goods up and took his profit. (283-284) This was a dramatic econom ic challenge for the Okies.I believe at this point they realize things would never get back to the old ways. The way they lived their lives would be forever different. They were forced back on the road, and back to search for food. The smashing companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line (284) On the highways the people moved like ants and searched for work, for food. And the anger began to ferment (284) Steinbeck points towards his feeling that big industry ruined the life of these people forever. The changes that Steinbeck illustrates are not just temporary, but permanent and life changing.These changes in industry would change the way the entire nation functions. The way people are used to living would be revolutionized. The people who arent puddle to accept this change or are unaware how to accept these changes would be left behind. When looking back at both of these chapters, and understanding the negative changes, we see some irony in the way Steinbeck structured this book. These small chapters, in between the longer ones, gave Steinbeck a chance to not only give setting, but also to express his opinions of the current state of events though his metaphors.He used the small chapters of 11 and 21 to depict a diorama the Okies were fleeing. They were leaving Oklahoma with the hope that California would somehow save them. I like to think how nice its gonna be, maybe, in California. Never cold. An fruit everplace, an people just bein in the nicest places, little white houses in among the orange trees. I wonderthat is, if we can all get jobs an all workmaybe we can get one of them little white houses. An the little fellas go out an pick oranges right off the tree. (91)The Okies believe they would find an welkin of California that would allow them to get back to their old ways of farming, and sadly, this simply would not happen. The Okies were running to a hopeful purview, while this hopeful scene was running from them. Wo nder if well ever get in a place where folks can live thout fightin hard scrabble an rocks. I seen pitchers of a country flat an green, an with little houses like Ma says, white. Ma got her summation set on a white house. Get to thinkin they aint no such(prenominal) country. I seen pitchers like that. Pa said, Wait till we get to California.Youll see nice country then. Jesus Christ, Pa This here is California. (204) They begin to realize, there really is nowhere left to run. In conclusion, I believe that in Chapters 11 and 21 the Joads were used as a metaphor for America. The Joads, like much of America, were not ready to accept the upcoming changes, and they were not on the watch to deal with the disasters they had along the way. Ultimately, their journey was unsuccessful. They lost members of their family, animals, and friends. The Joads, like much of America, had lost their entire way of life.