The Grapes of Wrath
Displacement in America
Displacement
• Watch this scene:
• Based off of this scene, what can you tell about these people? Answer in
complete sentences and address the following:
1. Speech (how they speak)
2. Situation (what is going on with them?)
3. Relationships (What roles do they have in the family?)
4. Appearance (Are they wealthy, poor? How can you tell?)
• How do you feel about them and why?
• What else can you tell me about them?
The Grapes of Wrath-Chapter 10
Period 1
Paperback: Turn to page 122 Chapter 10
Hardcover: Turn to page 116 Chapter 10
Period 2
Paperback: Turn to page 122 Chapter 10
Hardcover: Turn to page 116 Chapter 10
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 9
• What is my driving essay question?
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 9
• “Way Out” chapter without Joad character
• Find three quotes that show the effects of displacement on the
people. Make sure you cite the page number.
• Potential areas of interest: Family (gender roles/men/women), the
past, the future, possessions, identity (any time “you” is
mentioned).
• “…you’re buying a sorrow that can’t talk” (118 Paperback)
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter
Assignments
• How are these NOT on my own question?
• “Why does Casy keep asking himself about being a
preacher?”
• What does it mean to be a preacher?
• “Will Al’s role in the family continue to change?”
• What circumstances warrant a change in roles for family members?
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter
Assignments
• Take out a piece of paper
• Title it “On My Own Questions and Quotes”
• Organize it by chapters: For example: “Chapter 10: Is it
possible to have the gender roles reversed and still
maintain order in a family?”
• Each chapter will require the following:
– 1 “On my Own” question (use slide 37, “Grapes of Wrath Terms” as a
way to start questions.
– 2 quotes showing the effects of displacement along with page
numbers.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 10
• Based on chapter 10, would you consider Casy as
capable of still being a preacher?
• Why or why not? Use quotes to support your answer, along with
your understanding/expectation of a preacher.
• You can possibly use these quotes to show how displacement
affects your spiritual life.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 10
• Finish chapter 10 by tomorrow…possibly a quiz?
•
• P 146: “‘It’s women’s work,’ she said finally…’It’s all work,’ the
preacher replied. ‘They’s too much of it to split up to men’s or
women’s work…’”
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 10
• Page 129 “In the late afternoon” paperback
• Page 122 Hardcover
• Do the following for chapter 10
– 1 “On my Own” question (use slide 37, “Grapes of Wrath Terms”
as a way to start questions.
– 2 quotes showing the effects of displacement along with page
numbers.
Turn it in in the back tray.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 11
• Personification is always used to persuade the
reader of an argument.
• What objects is Steinbeck trying to make “alive?”
• Give me examples and page numbers.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 11
• What objects is Steinbeck trying to make into a
“machine?”
• Give me examples and page numbers.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 11
• Personification is always used to persuade the
reader of an argument.
• What is the argument Steinbeck is trying to make, using
personification?
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 12
• Watch “Drivelapse Route 66”
• Historical highway
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 12
• Write the following for chapter 11 and 12
• Chapter 11:
– 1 “On My Own Question”
– 2 Quotes to back up the effects of displacement
• Chapter 12:
– 1 “On My Own Question”
– 2 Quotes to back up the effects of displacement
• Turn the paper in
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• Finish Chapter 13 by Monday, 3/10/2014
• QUIZ
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• P 173 (paperback): “People moving. We know why, an’
we know how. Movin’ ‘cause they want somepin better’n
what they got. An’ that’s the on’y way they’ll ever git it.
Wantin’ it an’ needin’ it, they’ll go out an’ git it.”
• Reason for displacement.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• P 174: “Pretty soon you’ll be on the road yourse’f.
And it ain’t tractors’ll put you there. Its’ them
pretty yella stations in town. Folks is movin’,” he
said ashamedly. “An’ you’ll be movin’, mister.”
• The patterns of capitalism causing diaspora/displacement.
Watch “60 minutes” Reports on the Dangers of Walmart
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnvbpXmzA3A
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• P 190-191: “Pa said softly, “Grampa buried his pa with his own
hand, done it in dignity, an’ shaped the grave nice with his own
shovel. That was a time when a man had the right to be buried by
his own son an’ a son had the right to bury his own father.”
“The law says different now,” said Uncle John.
“ Sometimes the alw can’t be foller’d no way,” said Pa. “Not in
decency, anyways. They’s lots a times you can’t…Sometimes a fella got
to sift the law. I’m sayin’ now I got the right to bury my own pa.”
• Government, the law, are inadequate to help the people. In
fact, they hurt the people, get in the way. Sometimes, the
LAW is not enough. American history shows how the law can
destroy its citizens. Watch “Alabama City Remembered…”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUt0gJh9U8
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• P. 192: “Sairy said, “You shouldn’ talk like that. We’re proud to
help. I ain’t felt so—safe in a long time. People needs—to
help.”
• P. 196: “I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that
don’t matter much. He was alive, an’ that’s what matters. An’
now he’s dead, an’ that don’t matter. Heard a fella tell a poem
one time, an’ he says ‘All that lives is holy.’
• Displacement produces a kinship with those who suffer
together.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• Socratic Seminar…‘All that lives is holy.’
• Is this true? Why or why not? How should we judge a
person’s life? Should we judge a person’s life? How does
judgment play out in love?
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13
• P. 199: “Casy said, “he was foolin’, all the time. I think he
knowed it. An’ Grampa didn’ die tonight. He died the minute
you took ‘im off the place.”
• When you lose your land, you lose your entire life, your being,
your heart.
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14
• Read 204-205
• What separates us from animals, according to Steinbeck.
• Do you agree or disagree?
• ...”fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a
concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and
this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14
• Page 206
• Alienation from displacement: Steinbeck uses an amorphous 1st
person narration, of an unspecified narrator, who shows us how
displacement causes a sense of alienation. Can use this in essay.
Highlight:
• “One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car creaking
along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a single tractor took
my land. I am alone and I am bewildered.”
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14
• Page 206
• Capitalism is assaulted by Steinbeck:
• “If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that
Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might
survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning
freezes you forever into ‘I,’ and cuts you off forever from the ‘we.’
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 20
• Page 381
• “I know, Ma. I’m a-tryin’. But them deputies—Did you ever see a
deputy that didn’ have a fat ass? An’ they waggle their ass an’ flop
their gun aroun’. Ma,” he said, “if it was the law they was workin’
with, why, we could take it. But it ain’t the law. They’re a-workin’
away at our spirits. They’re a-tryin’ to make us cringe an’ crawl like
a whipped bitch. They tryin’ to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma,
they comes a time when the on’y way a fella can keep his decency is
by taking’ a sock at a cop. They’re workin’ on our decency.”
• How does the Joad mentality against injustice differ from the
Japanese family from When the Emperor Was Divine? (Think
Shikata Ja Nai).
The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 20
• Page 381
• Read last three paragraphs of page 381
• How is this persecution and mob mentality the same as the “Minute
Men?”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNBP3cU7-uI&feature=fvwrel