Tom shows how even though you may lose you are still courageous. This is how Tom displays true courage in the novel and how he is one of the most courageous…
He sees Tom as an intruder who needs to get out of his house and his first line of action to protect his wife by of pulling out his gun. Through his doubts about who Tom is saying he is, Tom asks questions that help move the story along making Tommy reveal more and more about the future. Diction is used to help make the characters become their own. As I was reading I could find myself taking on different ways of speaking as the characters became more and more familiar. You could picture Margaret crying and speaking to her husband then speaking motherly to Tom.…
All he wanted was to get the yellow paper and to receive the promotion. Overall Tom dedicates his time by working, he sacrifices spending time with his family to have his…
Although the salesman who works at the car lot is less intimidating than the cyclops the both have a one eyed character at one point in their journeys . In The Grapes of Wrath when the Joads are looking for a car for their "Road Trip" to California they visit a car lot. In this car lot they meet a one-eyed salesman with low self esteem who despises his boss. Through out their "stay" at the car lot the salesman spends more time complaining, wallowing in self pity and describing his struggles of only having one eye instead of actually doing his job. Eventually Tom has enough of his whining and lectures him, Which leads me to my next comparison; both roles have a good amount of arrogance attached to them.…
In the beginning, or the first stage, we are first introduced to Tom Joad, who has recently been released from prison. He is a simple man. He says what he says, and acts how he acts. He is pretty unsophisticated in that perspective. He is open about his past with a truck driver, he isn’t afraid to talk about how he got into jail and where he is headed now.…
John Steinbeck uses diction and detail to reveal Tom Joad’s character by giving his readers an image of Tom going up to a truck driver and manipulating him to get a ride, even if it causes the truck driver to lose his job and John gives his readers that image through his word choices he used to describe the scene of Tom and the truck driver. John was able to reveal Tom’s selfish actions through his word choices that gives his readers an insight of Tom’s true self. John uses the third person view and describes what’s going on in the scenery to reveal what kind of person is the character, a careless person, a caring person, etc. When Tom tricked the truck driver to giving him a ride, the truck driver tells Tom that “owners don’t want us to…
To conclude, in the beginning of the story, the only attention that Tom thinks about was the promotion. Later throughout the…
SYNTAX: The author switches back and forth between the Joad family and the migrant farmers in general. Quotations are used when the chapter is about the Joads. However, when it is about migrant farmers, Steinbeck does not put quotation marks. This is mostliekly he used these quotes to mean that any farmer in the nation oculd be saying that becasue they all share the same struggle. .…
The setting of The Grapes of Wrath sets the stage for the struggles and the change the Joad family has to face. The drought of the 1930s forces the Joads to leave everything they know and move to California in order to find a better life. The Joad family has a clue to what awaits them at their destination nor do they know what awaits them on the long journey itself. The author, John Steinbeck, develops three dynamic characters - Ma Joad, Tom Joad, and Jim Casy - to illustrate three similar, but different, journeys. They are all forced to evolve to survive and, with evolution, they lose a part of themselves, but they also gain a better understanding of their own individuality.…
While the Joad family moves to the state of California, the fambly endures the struggles of starting over. In the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Ma stays home caring for the house and children, and Pa works in the town to bring in money, because gender roles are prevalent in the world around them. Not only are are these roles spread throughout society, but they are followed by men and women alike. In the 1930’s at the time of the Dust Bowl gender roles were still widely diversified.…
The 1930’s were bleak years in American history, arguably some of the worst. Efforts made to improve rights for women in the 1920’s were abandoned with the onslaught of hardship brought by the depression. Steinbeck challenges traditional gender roles in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, by portraying male characters as impulsive or weak while introducing Ma Joad as the clear-headed matriarch who holds the family together. In the beginning of the novel, Ma is a silent supporter of the men of the family, as the novel progresses Steinbeck emphasizes the flaws in male characters, ultimately Ma evolves into the primary force holding the family together and making decisions for their survival.…
During the infamous depression of the 1930’s, the combined evils of America’s economic downturn and the Dust Bowl drought left many southern farming families landless, weak, and subject to relentlessly vexing circumstances. John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, tells the story of these displaced farmers and their travels, whilst also intertwining within the plot, a profound use of symbolism in various forms to convey the adversity and trying attitudes of society during the time. Steinbeck uses animals, women, and Christianity as well developed symbols to place into perspective the hardships of the Joad family. Furthermore, these symbols illustrate the identifiable characteristics which differentiate between those who prospered and those…
Even though newcomers often struggle to adjust themselves to the new culture in California, they still tries to stay optimistic and find their ways to make sure everything works out because America is now their new country and home. In John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, Okies perceive that “[their] people are good people; [their] people are kind people” (326). Steinbeck describes those newcomers by showing how they believe in themselves and have confidence even when they are going through many hardships. Moreover, by showing how the newcomers solve the conflicts over their wages between the landowners and the laborers because of the increase of starvation, Steinbeck portrays that the newcomers remain cheerful and positive.…
The novel takes on a different tone when Casy is killed by the police. Tom Joad is taken aback by the murder and is transformed into someone who is truly motivated to go about making change happen in the society. In the quote above Tom takes on an almost vigilante role in his rant, needing to take the law and justice into his own hands because he realizes the system is not going to fix itself. Tom adopts responsibility for all those suffering out there, setting himself on a mission to make things right. While Tom had seen some awful things…
Throughout the novel written by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, social injustice is illuminated. The human person is programmed at birth with certain necessities. The material programmed into the bodies of humans consist of rights and responsibilities. Catholic teachings teach us to be kind to others even when it is nearly impossible. The quote “treat others as you want to be treated” is a core value in the Catholic religion.…