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Grapes of Wrath Quotes (Mock Exam) Theme: Transience "Fella gets use' to a place, it's hard to go," said Casy. "Fella gets use' to a way of thinkin' it's hard to leave." (Chapter 6) The characters have to leave their homeland after such a long time. [:car salesman:] "Mules! Hey, Joe, hear this? This guy wants to trade mules. Didn't nobody tell you this is the machine age? They don't use mules for nothing but glue no more." Showing how America is changing, farmer’s traditional ways of living are being replaced by science and advancements in technology. "Well, Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum." The new change in word, hate towards the migrants. Theme: Family “And still the family stood about like dream walkers” The sheer effect of the dust bowl, unreal. “She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family.” The significance of Ma as a part of the family. “In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.” All the migrants go through this together, like one big family, supporting everyone involved. "Use' ta be the family was fust. It ain't so now. It's anybody." The loss of family, the true impacts of the dust bowl on such a close and connected family. "Says he wasn't hungry, or he jus' et. Give me the food. Now he's too weak. Can't hardly move." In this last scene, we see an example of a family who still knows what it means to be a family, even in dire circumstances. Theme: Lies and Deceit “Ever hear of the border patrol on the California line? Police from Los Angeles – stopped you bastards, turned you back.” The Joad’s are revealed to the harsh truth of what is actually going on. “Ma suddenly seemed to know it was all a dream.” An example of Ma being a realist, although keeps her realisations to herself to keep the family going. “They's a grove of yella oranges – an' a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one." The food is there, yet people are starving. Theme: Betrayal

“I ain't givin' 'em away. I can't help what happens to you. I got to think what happens to me." Even citizens are turning against each other as times grow harder and harder. “Pa said slowly, "We ain't a gonna do it. We got almost a kin bond. Grampa, he died in your tent." The families value each other's company more than they value their own success. Theme: Gender “The women and the children watched their men talking to the owner men. They were silent.” In the novel, hierarchy is based more on their role in the family rather than their gender, as Ma is a very powerful and demanding character, while being a woman. “Ma looked to Tom to speak, because he was a man, but Tom did not speak.” Ma is the more dominant character, almost giving Tom permission to speak by ‘looking’ at him. “Men sang the words, and women hummed the tunes.” May suggest that men do the practical and hard work, while women keep the family going physically and emotionally. Theme: Wealth “as though the Bank or the Company were a monster.” Passionate feelings of hatred and fear towards the wealthy banks. Repetition of referring to the bank as a ‘monster’ throughout the novel. “One man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families.” The sheer effect that technological improvements have on traditional farming families. “For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we." We readers are cut off from the people who own things. We never get to meet (in person, face-to-fact) the landowners or the bankers. They exist in their own bubble, a bubble to which we do not have access....