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What is significant about Al and Aggie’s announcement?

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the tenant farmers were not profitable because of?

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why did the family have to leave their home

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In what ways were the salesmen trying to take advantage of the desperate farmers trying to buy used cars?

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How does the chapter make you feel about the situation of "okies" during the Dust Bowl?

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How does Steinbeck use religious imagery connected with the burial of Rose of Sharon’s dead baby in order to further the novel’s political agenda?

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How does the final scene draw a correlation between the theme of the cycle of life and the theme of change?

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How does the final scene of this novel, which is both poignant and controversial, illustrate Casy’s notion of the human soul?

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How do the sense of community and cooperation between the migrant workers in the cotton camp disintegrate in this closing chapter?

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What is the significance of the fate of Rose of Sharon’s baby for the cycle of life theme?

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What is ironic about the fact that the torrential rains and the floods they bring cause so much sickness and death among the migrants in this chapter?

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In this chapter, Uncle John says that he “don’t need no safety razor, neither. Stuff settin’ out there, you jus’ feel like buyin’ it whether you need it or not.” How does his statement function as a criticism of the nature of capitalism?

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How does Tom’s new philosophy/theology—which he learned from Casy—reflect Steinbeck’s Socialist views?

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What does the fact that the Joads buy new clothes for themselves reveal about their financial situation?

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How does Tom’s conversation with Ma establish him as a disciple of the Christ-like figure, Casy? How does Tom adopt Casy’s religious convictions?

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How does the chapter correlate the rainfalls with the theme of wrath?

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Chapter 27, How is the cotton industry corrupt on the part of the landowners as well as the pickers? What is ironic about this corruption?

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How does this chapter emphasize the theme of human endurance?

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How did Americans come to own land in California?

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why did you pick this name for the book?

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What do you think of Casys viewpoint that there is no sin and there is no virtue and only the actions of people?

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Muley and Casy each offer an alternative life to Tom, two ways to respond to crisis. Examine the central ideas and beliefs of each.

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do any of you feel some or part of this book is offensive?

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why is noah slightly deformed?

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why dos the book have some long full lengthen chapters and other are very short like inter-chapters? Is there an importance to it?

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