Quiz 6-7

1. Quiz 6-7 • Since the house has been empty for 3-4 months, what does Tom think isodd that nobody stole? • What did Grampa get from Albert’s house with an injun head on it? • What way did the turtle head when Tom let it free? Hint: it went in it’s usual direction. • Where is Tom’s family? • What does one man say he’ll trade the car for?

2. Chapter 5 Activator: “The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” How is this statement true? What is the effect of comparing the bank to a monster?

3. Chapter 5 in Summary • Bank as a monster • Paper ownership vs. blood and sweat • Man vs. monster- “men made it, but they can’t control it.” • California as Eden • Trickle down effect: Monster Bank  tenants  wives and children • p. 49- rape of the land- “The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.”

4. Theme of Powerlessness/Hopelessness/Indifference • Neighbor vs. Neighbor- over survival • “Three dollars a day, and it comes every day.” • “That’s right. But for your three dollars a day fifteen or twenty families can’t eat at all.” p. 50 • “…Long before your hung there’ll be another guy on the tractor, and he’ll bump the house down. You’re not killing the right guy…. But where does it stop? Who can we shoot?...Maybe there’s nobody to shoot. Maybe the thing isn’t men at all.” p. 52

5. Why doesn’t the tenant shoot the guy in the tractor? • It’s not him, someone else’ll come, then someone else. • No rest, respite, no relief • Can’t kill the monster– the thing • Does it really exist? • Or is it just an excuse?

6. Chapter 6- Muley Graves

7. Muley Graves • Old farmer who refuses to leave the land, even though his family has already left. • “If on’y they didn’ tell me I got to get off, why I’d prob’y be in California right now…but them sons-a-bitches says I got to get off—an’, Jesus Christ, a man can’t, when he’s tol’ to!” • Wildness in Graves. • Lost connection to people- lonesome or crazy? Even he doesn’t seem to know. • Connection to the earth, to the land. Can’t give it up • “ They got Pa dyin’ on the ground, and Joe yellin’ his first breath, an’ jerking like a Billy Goat under a bush in the light.” • Hospitality. (A person is obligated to share his food with someone who is hungry)

8. Why won’t Muley leave? • They told him to get off the land- • “But them sons-a-bitches says I got to get off- an’, Jesus Christ,a man can’t, when he’s tol’ to” (64). • Tom surprised grampa didn’t kill them because “nobody never tol’ Grampa where to put his feet” (64). • Muley stays behind without his family. • Casy doesn’t like it- “You should of went too. You shouldn’t of broke up the fambly.”-- theme

9. Grampa’s Last Stand • When the tractor comes, “grampa stood out with a rifle, an’ he blowed the headlights off that cat’, but she come on just the same” (62). • Didn’t want to kill Willy Feely (driver), so wasn’t serious.

10. Brotherly Love • Muley has to share with them- “if a fella’s got somepin to eat an’ another fella’s hungry– why, the first fellaain’t got no choice” (66). • Love for all- universal soul

11. Muley- graveyard ghost, hunted man • “like a damn ol’ graveyard ghos’. I been goin’ aroun’ the places where stuff happened” (69). • “I’ve been sneakin’ aroun’ like a ol’ graveyard ghos” (71).

12. Who is Muley Graves? What is his personality like? Does his name fit his personality? What does the land represent to him? • Muley Graves-been tractored off land. • His family California, but he stayed behind. • Muley =stubborn and defiant man i.e. refusal to leave and lack of reason to stay. • The name “Muley” =mules are known to be stubborn animals. • land is more than a means to gain a profit; it’s personal memories and will always be his home.

13. Foreshadowing/Conflict • Tom “Ever’body’sgoin’ west. I got me a parole to keep. Can’t leave the state.”

14. What problem does Pa have with writing? • Doesn’t like fancy writing-like Tom learned in prison • “ever’time Pa seen writin’, somebody took somepin away from ‘im.

15. What’s the irony when Tom’s says, “I never though I’d be hidin’ out on my old man’s place” (81)?

16. Tom’s Nature • Practicality: • He questions the institution of prison because it didn’t make him not want to commit murder. • “But when a bunch of men take an’ lock you up for four years, it ought to have some meaning. Men is supposed to think things out.”

17. Chapter 6: What happens to the turtle and what does Tom think about the turtle? • Tom lets the turtle free it is attacked by the cat (notice a cat attacks… What else is called a Cat in this story?) • the turtle continues Southwest. • Tom- turtles “always goin’ someplace,” • The turtle is an allegory that ties into the Joad’s and other migrant families’ stories.

18. Casy is a thoughtful and contemplative man, and gives somewhat of a speech while the men are around the fire. What does Casy say and what is important about the speech? • he does not preach for a living, but preachers are needed to lead people. i.e.“folks out lonely on the road… with no lan’, no home to go to” need preachers to give them a home. • foreshadows his future leadership of the migrant farmers.

19. Chapter 7- Used Car Salesman • Represents Capitalism at its finest • Every man out for himself Jalopy- decrepit car

20. Describe the style of chapter seven. Who are the speakers in chapter seven? • mimics the fast-paced speech of salesmen and creates a fast tempo. • Uses short, choppy sentences are used. • The speakers = car salesmen and the families buying the cars for California.

21. Chapter 8 in Brief • Muley-possibly crazy, which makes him less of a man • Uncle John- lonely, mean, and guilty wife • Description of truck- shows perseverance– self made man, practical like make own luck. • “a truck with high sides, but a strange truck, for while the front of it was a sedan, the top had been cut off in the middle and the truck bed was fitted on.”- dad building a truck house

22. Ma is a contradictory mix of strength, kindness, and femininity/delicacy • “the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken” (100). Head of the family

23. Ma’s worried about Tom being “poisoned mad” (103). i.e. Purty Boy Floyd- “did a little bad thing a’ they hurt ‘im, caught I’em an’ hurt him so he was mad, an’ the nex’ bad thing he done was mean mad…shot at him like a varmint, an’ he shot back…Finally they run him down an’ killed ‘em” (103).

24. Both have reverted to childishness—totally reliant on Ma Joad • They loved each other because of their fighting • Grandpa: lecherous, rude • Grandma: Religious, but only as ritual—no sense of understanding • “They fought over everything, and loved and needed the fighting.” Grampa and Granma= Comic relief

25. Strength in Unions • “Tommy” wants to hunt down the men that hurt his house, but Ma says “If we was all made the same way, Tommy– they wouldn’t hunt nobody down” (104) • strength in numbers  unions

26. Noah- never angry in his life- anger was peculiar to him • “He lived in a strange silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely” (106) why he’s never mean • Pa’s guilt/shame because of Noah’s birth

27. Casy’s Prayer • Talks about Jesus going off into the wilderness, just like he did. • Granma says “Amen” but just because of years of doing it and knowing the timing • Came to the realization that “There as the hills, an’ there was men, an’ we wasn’t separate no more. We was one thing. An’ that one was holy” (110). • “we was holy when we was one thing” • “one guy fighting for himself isn’t holy but one fellakinda harnessed to the whole shebang that’s right, that’s holy” Car salesman

28. Al- head full of girls and engines. Admires Tom because he killed a man, but disappointed that he didn’t break out of prison.

29. Chapter 9- Leaving • “You’re not buying only junk, you’re buying junked lives. And more– you’ll see– you’re buying bitterness. Buying a plow to plow your own children under, buying the arms and spirits that might have saved you” (118). • -universal soul (I we)

30. “We could have saved you, but you cut us down, and soon you will be cut down and there’ll be none of us to save you” (118). • Divide and conquer • Who’s doing it? • Business owners

31. Foreshadowing • “To California or any place– every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching our bitterness. And some day– the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they’ll all walk together, and there’ll be a dead terror from it” (119). •  Revolt and union “When shoes and clothes and food, when even hope is gone, we’ll have the rifle” (120). survival

32. Who says? What does it mean? • “But you can’t start. Only a baby can start.You and me why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us.”

33. Loss of Memories • · Families have to lose their memories to make the journey. • · The small sentimental things we keep to hold our memories in • Only babies/children can start again-- not an adult. Why? • Ma’s Lost Treasures

34. Quote to consider: • “How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past? No. Leave it. Burn it (12).”

35. Summarizer: • In chapter 8, Jim Casy says “grace.” Throughout his “grace,” Granma says “amen” or “hallelujah” ever so often keeping the rhythm of the grace she had known all her years. At the end, Casy says “Amen.” Steinbeck writes that “all the heads rose up” (111). • They all react to Casy’s grace as a routine– in the way that they had been trained. Think of some of the things we say that we do as routine. Is there any danger in being conditioned like this? • Why or why not?

36. Quiz 8-9 • Where are Tom and Casygoing? • What happened to Uncle John’s wife? • During the four years Tom was gone, what did Rosasharndo? • What do the families do with the things they leave behind?

37. Agenda 10.1 • Check-in (Chapter 5 annotation and Chapters 6-7 key points) • Go over notes • Get into small groups and study for test 4) Pass in Chapter 5 annotations and Chapters 6-7 key points/quotes

38. Chapter 10- Joad’s Leave • Ma and Tom’s conversation • Ma hopes everything will be nice, but it “seems too nice, kinda. I see the han’billsfellas pass out, an’ how much work they is, an’ high wages an’ all…I ain’t got faith. I’m scared sompinain’t so nice about it” (122-123).  sounds too good to be true • Tom remarks with an idiom- “Don’t roust your faith bird-high an’ you won’t do no crawlin’ with the worms” (123). What does that mean? • Keep your expectations low and you won’t be disappointed Tom to Ma- “You got to think about that day, an’t hen the nex’ day” (123) just one foot in front of the other. One thing at a time.

39. Ma’s dream of a little white house and oranges. • Tom crushes it saying he knew a man who had been there and that “the folks that pick the fruit live in dirty ol’ camps an’ don’t hardly get enough to eat” (124). • Ma tries to find some ‘faith” explaining that Pa got a han’bill and the companies wouldn’t print them if there wasn’t any work because it’d be a waste of money.

40. Casy wants to leave with the Joads • Doesn’t want to preach anymore. • Wants to go and work in the fields • “I aint’ gonna try to teach ‘emnothin’. I’m gonna try to learn, gonna hear ‘em talk , gonna hear ‘em sing” (128).

41. The Joad kids • Ruthie-a twelve-year old girl who is starting to grow up. • Winfield- he’s theyoungest, 10 years old, who is “kid-wild” and still immature. • Rose of Sharon-“pregnant and careful,” and her only concern seems to be her pregnancy and her unborn baby. • Connie Rivers- Rosasharn’s 19-year old husband, who is “frightened and bewildered” by Rosasharn’s state.

42. Truck=hearth of the family • “this was the new hearth… the living center of the family; half passenger car and half truck, high-side and clumsy” (136).

43. $150 to travel 2000 miles…. • Need better tires • “got skinend on the stuff we sold. The fellaknowed we couldn’t wait. Got eighteen dollars only.”

44. Granpa- “still the titular head, but he no longer ruled” (137).

45. “It ain’t kin we? It’s will we?”- Ma • Deliberate over taking Jim Casy(138-139). • I we • Twelve Joads plus Casy in the truck. • 12 and J.C.hm…. • “he had been taken into the family… his position was eminent…Casy squatted down like the other, facing Grampaenthroned on the running board” (140).

46. Ma burns her unsellable items • Has a funeral for her memories, looking them over and then burning them in the stove • Only keeps what she can sell- practical like Tom

47. Muley shows up • “graveyard ghos’” reference again • Noah- “You gonna die out in the fiel’ some day’ (151) • Wants them to tell his family he’s alright • Granpa “I jus’ ain’t a-goin’” (151)– just like Muley two peas in a pod

48. Why does Grampa decide he is not going to California? What do Ma and Tom do in order to make him come? • Grampa argues that “this country ain’t no good, but it’s my country.” • born and raised on the land/too old to change his ways. • Ma and Tom drug Grampa with medicine, so he will come with them.

49. Chapter Eleven • How are the tractors and the horses contrasted? What does each represent? • tractors- “iron,” “glitter,” and “silver.” • Inhuman tractors- destroy the links to the land • Cut man off from creating, building, connecting • Horses- described by their actions: “breathing,” having “warmth,” and eating. • The tractors represent the inanimate objects while the horses represent life.

50. How does the deserted house change? What living things move into the house? • reverts back to nature. • Cats, gophers, mice, bats, owls, weasel, and even weeds live in or near the house. • The weather causes the house to deteriorate and become part of nature once again.