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CHAPTER 17: MIGRANTS WE
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“they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a new mysterious place, they huddled together they talked together; they shared their lives, their food, and the things they hoped” (264).
“twenty were one” (264).
The power of we…
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno!
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“Every night relationships that make a world, established; and every morning the world torn down like a circus” (265).
Us vs. them
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What rights must be followed i.e. right of privacy in the tent, to refuse help or accept
What rights “are monstrous and must be destroyed” i.e. seduction or rape, theft, murder etc. (265)
New Society is forming
Developing their own world slowly with laws and leaders.
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Ostracism Quick and murderous fight If you break the laws then
there is “no place in any world, no matter where created” for you (266).
Two Punishments
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Farm men become migrant men. “Thus they changed their social life–
changed as in the whole universe only man can change (267).
We… unit… family
Change is coming…
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“Maybe, the thought, maybe we sinned some way we didn’t know about” (271).
What are they feeling? Why are they even thinking this?
Families are united, but at night they wonder…
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“Ten-Cent Cotton and Forty-Cent Meat” “Why Do You Cut Your Hair, Girls” “I’m Leaving Old Texas” sang before the
Spaniards came, only the words were Indian then. What does Steinbeck mean?
Why do you think all cultures find themselves drawn to music? What can we learn through music?
Music brings them together
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“Look out for the desert. See you don’t get hung up. Take plenty water, case you get up” (273).
How has nature impacted the migrants lives so far?
What could Steinbeck be foreshadowing in this chapter?
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Chapter 18: The Desert
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Joads travel into ArizonaWhy would the border guard ask
them about plants?What danger could the migrants
having plants pose?“Go ahead, but you better keep
moving.”
“Got any plants?”
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Water grew scarce…had to be bought even survival costs money now
Flight from the sun and the drought
Man vs. Nature
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Granma still going nuts Uncle John not impressed with California’s
prosperity so far Tom worried about crossing the desert Pa wants to get to California to work
because they only have $40
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Tom notices the “tough mountains” and thinks it “murder country” (278).
Noah wants to lay in the water forever without a care in the world
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“But at leas’ we can starve to death with folks we know. Won’t have a bunch a fellas that hate us to starve with” (279).
“She’s a nice country. But she was stole a long time ago… the lan’s layin’ fallow. But you can’t have none of that lan’. That’s a Lan’ and Cattle Company… You go in there an’ plant you a little corn, an’ you’ll go to jail” (279).
MAN AND SON
Greed vs. hungerWant vs. need
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Law enforcement pushes them around Okie= “dirty son-of-a-bitch” (280) 300,000 of our people there- “an’ livin’ like
hogs, cause ever’thing in California is owned” (280)◦ Owners will hang onto their land no matter how
many people they kill or hurt– fear losing their land, power, and money.
“Okie”
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Can’t touch anything because they’ll kill you.
No land to own Only unsteady
work
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Newspaper owner has a million acres.
Bullet proof car, scared he’s going to die
Shows greed: the disease of capitalism
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Casy- “If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ‘cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe’s disappointed that nothin’ he can do’ll make him feel rich– not rich like Mis’ Wilson was when she give her tent when Grampa died” (282).
I vs. We
Richness in universal soulMoney vs. intrinsic wealth
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Can’t leave His place is in nature,
no place for him in man’s world
River= life Here the river is mirage Thinks he’s safe and
can’t die by a river, but it’s different here…
Noah and the River
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Noah leaves the family at the river before the desert.◦ Sense of loss?◦ "You know how it is, Tom. You know how the folks are
nice to me. But they don't really care for me." The Wilsons are unable to make the crossing.
◦ Sairy Wilson’s goodbye to Ma and Casy Grandma’s Death
◦ Grandma dies on the crossing over the desert.◦ Really dies with the passing of Grandpa◦ Grandma’s Death as rebirth of the family? All the
money spent, new beginning for those who can
Departures
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Ma talking to Roseasharn, “They’s a time of change, an’ when that comes, dyin’ is a piece of all dyin’, and bearin’ is a piece of all bearin’, an’ bearin’ an’ dyin’ is two pieces of the same things. And then things ain’t lonely any more. An’ then a hurt don’t hurt so bad, ‘ause ita in’t a lonely hurt no more” (286).
Circle of life
We-universal soul
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Jehovah’s witness wants to pray over Grandma
Why doesn’t Ma want them to come in?
Woman in torn black dress
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He’s rude. Represents prejudice of the law enforcements, injustice.
Ma’s strength: “Mister, you got a tin button an’ a gun. Where I come from, you keep your voice down” with a skillet in hand, causing him to reach for his gun (291).
“Go ahead… In my country you watch your tongue” (291).- fearless, asking for respect.
Scares him off
Deputy comes…
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Ma feels like she can’t think anymore
So much else to worry about, no time to think
Power in confusing people keep them struggling to survive. ◦ No time to think about why it’s
wrong.
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Service station boy says Joads got more nerve than him to cross the desert in a jalopy
Tom- “It don’t’ take no nerve to do somepin when there ain’t nothin’ else you can do” (301).
What is courage?
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Got no sense and no feeling They ain’t human If they were human, they couldn’t stand to be so
dirty. Compares them to gorillas.How are these two working class boys feeding into
stereotypes. Is this an example of racism or regionalism? Do we see this today?
Boy and Laborer’s thoughts on “Okies”
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Uncle John- “Feelin’ I’m bringin’ bad luck to my own folks.”
Casy- man’s got to do what he’s got to do. “Nobody got a right to mess with a fella’s life… A fella build his own sins right up from the ground” (306).
Uncle John and Casy’s Discussion
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-Ma tells them that Granma died, but she did not want to stop for Granma
doing so would have stopped the family from getting to California and their chance for survival.
-Tom eases Ma’s guilt saying they wouldn’t have made it anyway.
When the Joads reach California, how is their success compromised? Why did not Ma stop for Granma? What does Tom say is the reason for Grampa and Granma’s deaths?
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◦ "John, there's a woman so great with love- she scares me. Makes me afraid an' mean."
◦ She can’t bear the emotion—refuses to let Tom touch her afterwards
Faith That Her People, Her Family Will Survive◦ Why, Tom- us people will go on livin' when all
them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people-we go on.“
Death of Grandma—Ma’s courage and love for the family.
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“A rattlesnake crawled across the road and Tom hit it and broke it and left it squirming” (314).
What does this represent?Considering that the Joads have
to pay $40 for Granma’s burial, which means they have “to start clean” how could the killing of rattlesnake be symbolic?
Rattlesnake
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Chapter 19:History of California
Money/Ownership DehumanizingWant and Need
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Read first two pages to yourself. What is being described. What are the farms an example of?
Activator:
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Mexicans originally owned Americans stole it Individual farmers owned it and
overproduced crops◦ lost money because they had no business sense
Bank owned it◦ As time went on “the farms grew larger and the
owners fewer.” ◦ Okies want land and foodland not used=sin.
What’s the story of the land?
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Squatters farm owners began to lose love for land
Land become market deal, “crops were bought and sold before they were planted” (316).
“all their love was thinned with money” No longer farmers but “little shopkeepers of
crops, little manufacturers before they can make.”
Sickness of Capitalism
Theme of inhumanity
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Power creates monsters Poverty creates less than humans
◦ Strips people of their rights
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
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The migrants are described as ants “scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land” (317).
Migrants= ants
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The migrants are seen as subhuman by all the people they encounter. They are defined this way, limited, and feared.◦ The owners fear their strength if they come together◦ The residents fear their willingness to work so cheaply
Ironically, the greatest hatred comes from fear of their strength◦ “…the owners hated them because the owners knew they were
soft and the Okies strong, that they were fed and the Okies hungry; and perhaps the owners had heard from their grandfathers how easy it is to steal land from a soft man if you are fierce and hungry and armed.”
◦ “Them goddamn Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human. A human being wouldn‘t live like they do. A human being couldn't stand it to be so dirty and miserable.”
Contrast with Steinbeck’s powerful portrayals of the family’s humanity.
The Okies
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Sin to Okies to let the fields sit unused
Even worse were guards that would not let man “pick an orange for a thin child, oranges to be dumped if the price was low” (319).
Why would they dump the oranges?
Fallow Fields
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Disorganized, semi-permanent camps on the edges of towns. Shanty towns.
Named After President Herbert Hoover As many as 500,000 people lived in these
conditions in California The Hooverville that the Joads encounter
offers a stark warning about the conditions they are likely to encounter as they continue their journey.
Hoovervilles
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“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him– he has known a fear beyond every other” (323).
These last few paragraph what is Steinbeck foreshadowing? Why are these men dangerous?
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Stealing milk for a hungry baby. Is that a crime? Know how the Fairfiel' ranch was got? I'll tell ya. It was all gov'ment lan', an'
could be took up. Ol' Fairfiel', he went into San Francisco to the bars, an' he got him three hunderd stew bums. Them bums took up the lan'. Fairfiel' kep' 'em in food an' whisky, an' then when they'd proved the lan', ol' Fairfiel' took it from 'em. He used to say the lan' cost him a pint of rotgut an acre. Would you say that was stealin'?
Well, it wasn't right, but he never went to jail for it. No, he never went to jail for it. An' the fella that put a boat in a wagon an'
made his report like it was all under water 'cause he went in a boat- he never went to jail neither. An' the fellas that bribed congressmen and the legislatures never went to jail neither.
What makes a crime?
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1) When property accumulates in two few hands it is taken away
2) When a majority of people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need
3) Repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed or oppressed
3 Cries of History
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So they take their money and use it “for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out” (325).
What are they trying to stamp out? Was by weapons their only course of action?
Owners constantly trying to repress the people
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“The great owners formed associations for protection and they met to discuss ways to intimidate, to kill, to gas. And always they were in fear of a principal– three hundred thousand– if they ever move under a leader– the end. Three hundred thousand, hungry and miserable; if they ever know themselves, the land will be theirs and all the gas, all the rifles in the world won’t stop them” (325).
Is an uprising inevitable?
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Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor. Pray God some day a kid can eat. I love you
And the association of owners knew that some day the praying would stop.
And there's the end.
What’s the importance of the closing paragraphs?