Chapter 7

1. Chapter 7 Grapes of Wrath Griffin and Brandon

2. Summary • The scene is set in the shoes of a used-car salesman explaining to his employees how to cheat the departing families. The fact that every one is trying to escape the dust storms westward and this has created a huge demand for cars, and dusty used-car lots spring up throughout the area. Crooked salesmen sell the departing families whatever broken-down vehicles they can find. The salesmen fill engines with sawdust to conceal noisy transmissions and replace good batteries with cracked ones before they deliver the cars. The tenant farmers, desperate to move and with little knowledge of cars, willingly pay the skyrocketing prices, much to the salesmen’s delight.

3. Parataxis • This chapter uses a writing style known as parataxis. This is short sentences, in which phrases and clauses are placed one after another independently, without coordinating them through the use of conjunctions.

4. The chapters comment • This chapter is describing that these used car salesman are just taking advantage of these refugees, which in contrast is similar to how the society in the era of the great depression treated those less fortunate then themselves. Survival of the fittest.