The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 21-22 questions

1. What are the causes that contribute to the changes in the character of the migrant people?

The fact that they were forced to move and the move its self changed them. Being forced to do something and to live a certain way changes the attitude of people, it fills them with anger and resentment. The moving itself, across the highways, from camp to camp, the people witness things that change their whole outlook. They see innocent children dying from starvation and sickness, and elders who aren’t strong enough to make the trip are dying as well. They see their families being torn apart by this heartless force (Moloch/The Monster) and it causes them to loose hope, but at the same time it fuels the fire and gives them a reason to live, and to fight, so they can overthrow this monster that is now controlling their lives.

2. As a result of the growing numbers of migrant people, what changes take place in the locals?

The locals start feeling threatened by the migrant workers that are moving in because they are afraid of them taking their land and their jobs. Things were hard enough with out the migrant workers and now it is making things tougher on the locals. So the locals had to defend what was theirs, by banning together and doing every thing in their power to keep the migrant workers in their place. The theme of “We” vs. “I” becomes very prominent, instead of every man for themselves like it was before in California they now realize that they have to ban together and stay strong against the migrant workers, and then the same goes for the migrant workers, they have to stay together so they can make a life in California.

3. How are the “little people” of California similar to the “Okies”?

The little people were farmers who didn’t own canneries. Because of this the “great owners”, banks and companies (who owned canneries) would take their land and farms. The little people then would do the best they could to make a living in town. But once they ran their credit dry they would hit the crowded road with crazed men in search of work. The little people are now joined with the Okies and are being called invaders from the west.

4. Explain this quote: “The great landowners were glad . . . And pretty soon now we’ll have serfs again.”

The Great landowners were glad because the handbills they had sent out had worked and attracted people to come and work in California. Because of all the people the wages stayed low and prices of the business profits went up. This made the landowners happy because their plan had worked and they continued to not help the ones in need such as the Okies/little farmers.

5. What are the major differences between Weedpatch and the Hoovervilles?

Weedpatch

· Government supported camp – part of the FDR New Deal

· “We” vs. ”I”

· Make their own rules; they police themselves; have their own government

· Everything is clean and kept clean by the people

· Committees oversee things

· The police can’t come in

· Everyone shares (Tom’s job)

· Dances and music

· People can work for rent

· Borrow money without fear of paying it back

· People here are human.

· Mr. Thomas

· Farmers association – Bank

· The bank told them they have to pay his people 25 cents because he was paying his people too much.

Hooverville

· Unorganized

· Cardboard boxes and tents

· Can be burned by police and citizens

· Lawless

· Dirty

· Mayor – is bull simple or whipped by the “I” (police) of the monster

· No one shares (jobs and things)

6. Is Weedpatch Steinbeck’s version of Paradise? Is there a serpent? Explain your answers.

Weedpatch is indeed Steinbeck’s version of paradise; it is a clean camp with a set up government, a place where people can find work and a camp with dances and music. As far as I can tell there is no serpent in Weedpatch. They keep the police out so they can’t be considered the serpent at this camp, and there is no one else who could pose as a serpent, except for maybe the crazy religious lady. She makes every thing out to be a sin and causes unpleasantness throughout the camp.

7. Timothy invites Tom to join Wikie and him at work, even though it means fewer hours for the Wallaces’. How does this action contribute to the “we” theme of the novel?

Timothy knows that in order to make it through these harsh times people need to make money, and they need to stick together. Timothy probably thought that if it was him in Tom’s situation that he would want the same treatment.

8. What is the connection between the Bank of the West and the Farmer’s association? How does the landowner explain this to the men?

The Bank of the West owns the Farmers Association. Thomas says that the bank owns most of his valley however, its got paper on everything it doesn’t own. Tom found out that it was the association that sent the men to burn down the Hooverville.

9. Why does the association dislike the government camps?

Because the government camps wont allow any cops or deputies in the camp. The Association is afraid the people in the government camps are going to organize themselves and rebel.

10. What does Ma mean when she says, “We come home to our own people…why, I feel like people again?”

She found out that in this camp the people are actually decent human beings. They are like the people they used to know back home, and it gives her comfort and a little sense of the way things used to be when they were back home.

11. Describe the atmosphere at Ma’s tent. What contributes to that atmosphere?

Ma feels that her family isn’t good enough to be at this camp and she thinks its important to make a good impression on the committee. Pa however, is suspicious of the people at the camp; such as the man that stopped by for coffee. He thought the man had an ulterior motive, however he was just being kind. All the tension in the tent is caused by the fact that no matter where they move, people don’t want them there so they continue to be untrusting and cautious.

12. what does the “sin-woman” represent? How does Rose of Sharon react? How doe Ma deal with her when she appears again.

The sin woman represents the serpent or the devil. She makes things that bring people joy into sins. She thinks that anything that people find pleasure in is a sin. She scares Rose of Sharon when she talks to them, and the next time she comes around Ma gets mad and tells her to leave.

13. The members of the committee have a sense of self-importance. Is self-importance of value? Explain.

In the women’s committee they take turns being chairman. Self-importance is what makes sure the chairman of the week is the one doing her job. In order to be on the committee you have to be elected by the people of the camp. If the women worry too much about themselves they wont last on the committee for long, so self importance isn’t really of much value.

14. How do the Children handle adapting to their new environment?

Ruthie has a little harder time then Winfield. Trying to impress Winfield, she runs in on the other kids mallet game and scares them. From then on the kids didn’t want to play with Ruthie any more. Winfield saw this entire thing happen and waited until the start of the next game to play.

15. What do Pa, Al and John discover about the availability of work?

They found out that there was no work available and that no one was hiring.

16. After their emotionally torturous ordeal, what are Ma and Pa finally realizing?

They realized that they are finally in a good place but they are upset that all the family that stayed behind will never get to see it or be a part of it. They don’t know who survived or not, and they just wish that they could all be together again.

17. The family is temporarily happy. What events foreshadow the problems to come?

When Pa and Ma talk about Doves sitting close together on the wires this represents the fact that if you get to close together you will get “zapped.” Which foreshadows the chances of what is going to happen if the people in the camp start to get to close, their future may not end well.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 23

Summary: (this chapter talks about how they migrant people are dealing with these hard times) the travelers continue to look for food and work as they have been doing for months. They share stories, some that are true, some are made up and some they stole from movies. some people are getting drunk, so they can lessen the pain they are feeling by the depressive state they are in. Others play music and dance to release all the energy they have from not working.

Themes:
People vs. "Moloch" - the people are doing everything in their power to stay uplifted during this harsh struggle despite getting kicked off their land, not being wanted in California, trying to get thrown in jail and starving to death. This is another connection between the people and the turtle and how no matter what they are going to fight for survival until their death.

"we" vs."I" - people are trying to make these hard times survivable by engaging in activities for people to try and get their minds of the glaring hazards of the present.

This is a "bigger picture" chapter so there are no specific characters.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 22

Summary:The Joads migrate to a new camp where there is an actual type of government set up. there are people who are elected to make decisions for the camp, create laws and people can get punished. The Joads get some new neighbors, Timothyand Wilkie Wallace. they invite Tom to come and work with them. Their boss however informed them that he was going to have to lower their pay because otherwise the bank would not renew the crop load that he needs in order to keep his work going and be able to provide people with jobs. He then lets them know that a couple of guys are going to cause a scene at the up coming dance so that the police force will have to get involved and then they will close down the camp. Then, the actual manager of the camp comes and greets the Joad family. Ma isn't to sure about what he wanted at first and wasn't sure whether or not he was a bad guy, but she soon came to realize that he was nice and respectful of the family. Ma gets comfort knowing that she is actually living in a place with kind and genuine people. The men go to find work while Ma and Rose of Sharon get ready for a "Ladies Committee" visit. Then an old religious woman comes over and puts the scare into Rose of Sharon. she says that women have started loosing their babies because of sinful things and that she should be careful. But Ma quickly stepped in and calmed her down. The Committee arrives and lets Ma and Rose of Sharon know about the rules of the camp and the "Sanitary Unit Number Four." Later when the men come home, jobless, Ma tells Pa that this is where they are going to stay and that its a great place for them to live. that gets them thinking about how great their life was in Oklahoma but then they realize that they don't live there anymore and they have to stop dwelling on the past, they can't control it anymore.

Themes:
everyone has a role - the men go out to find work as the women get caught up on the rules and things such as the "Sanitary Unit Number Four."

Importance of Land/home - Ma finally starts to get the feeling of what it used to be like because of how nicely they are being treated and it gives her a little sense/feeling of home.

"We" vs."I" - as soon as they get there they offer Tom a job. This shows the basic understanding that all the families are starving and in the need of a job and its important to help each other out.

New Characters:
Timothy and Wilkie Wallace - their new neighbors , they offer Tom a job.
crazy religious lady - puts a scare into Rose of Sharon

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 21

Summary: people started flooding out to the highways like a swarm of bugs in search of something to feed on. these people are agrarian people who too have been pushed off their land by "Moloch" and his machines. An agrarian society is based on agriculture as its main support and sustenance. The society acknowledges other means of livelihood and work habits but stresses on agriculture and farming, and was the main form of socio-economic organization for most of recorded human history. as they continued westward they became starved and broke. the people who live in the towns that the on coming settlers approach are frightened because they think that these settlers will do work for any food to feed their family, whereas these current towns people need work and have debts to pay off so they don't want these new settlers coming in and taking their jobs. These "great owners" are coming in and buying the canneries (factories that process fruit, fish, and vegetables) and underbids the small farmers forcing them to go broke and then join the rest of the people in the fight against starvation and death. These "great owners" think that they can just continue to take advantage of all these poorer folks but they don't realize that soon enough they are going to snap and a certain desperation is going to come over them and they are going to start acting on the anger that is being forced upon them.

Themes:
Machines vs. nature
people vs. "Moloch"
anger - the people are starting to get angry that they keep getting everything taken away from them by the rich or the "great owners.

Symbols
bugs

This is a "bigger picture" chapter so there are no specific characters.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 20

Summary: The Joad family took Grandma’s body to the coroner and they buried her. Then the family sets up at the first camp outside of town and they meet a young man named Floyd Knowles. He talks to him about how the police harass the people at these camps and the travelers in general. The police will put people in jail if they think they are heading workers, and they will kill anyone who speaks wrongly about how unjust the law is. Later Casy tells Tom that he was going to split away from the family because he doesn’t want to be a bother to the family anymore but Tom insisted that he stays because he doesn’t think its safe for him to leave yet. Then Connie says he is going to leave and go study about tractors, and not come back. After they all eat then Tom and Al go and help Floyd. Then a man in a fancy car shows up and offers the men jobs picking fruit. Then Floyd tries to blackmail them so they say that he tried to break into their car and they try to arrest him. But Floyd hits the cop and runs. The deputy that is with him shoots at him but hits a woman. Then Tom trips him and is knocked unconscious by Casy. Tom hides because he is on parole and doesn’t want to go back to jail, and Casy takes the blame and turns himself in. when night roles around Tom hadn’t come back so Al went looking for him. Uncle John tells Ma and Pa that he had kept 5 dollars so he could get drunk, and they tell him its ok because, after all, it is his money. Finally Tom comes back and the family decides to pack up and move over to Weedpatch. As they were leaving the cops stopped them and they were ordered to go to Tulare. Tom gets pissed, but he is restrained by Ma, but then decides that that they have rights and freedoms and that the cops cant tell them what to do so Tom turns around and cuts through town and headed to Weedpatch like they had planned on. As they left the Hooverville was burning down.

Themes:

People vs. “Moloch” – the cops trying to arrest them and force them to do things which took away their rights, this also shows how corrupt the government was and the injustices that were being done.

Strength of family

Characters:

The Joad Family

Floyd Knowles - a young man in a neighboring tent of the Joad family who explains the harsh harassment tactics of the police.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 19

Summary: This a chapter about the bigger picture. It talks about how when the people first came to settle in California they were just wanting land, and they would do anything to get it, including taking control of all the Mexican natives and driving them out of their own land. Then farms and the demand for crops grew and it became a major industry. Now as the new settlers are coming to California, they have the same desires for land. However, now few hold the land and you aren’t allowed to farm even on a small strip of land without getting charged with trespassing. Hoovervilles where burned down for being a threat to the peoples health. Parents and children pay for food, but then the parents decide to stop praying and actually do something about it.

Themes:

People vs. “Moloch”

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 18

Summary: the Joad family arrives in California and then several men go and bathe in the river. They decide they are going to cross the desert at night because it is too hot during the day. Grandma gets ill, however the big worry on everyone’s mind is how much money they have, and how long it is going to take them to get to California. When the men are in the water a man and his son come along and take a dip in the water as well. They tell them what life was like in California and about how none one from California wants them there, and how badly you are treated once you get there. The on traveling families are referred to as Okies. Then they all get out of the water and head to bed, but Noah tells Tom that he needs to separate from the family, and that he wont go on to California and that he will follow the river and fish for food. Then while Ma and Rose of Sharon are sleeping the cops come and tell them that they need to be gone by the morning, and that California didn’t want any more Okies settling in their town. Then Ma threatens him with a skillet and then he leaves. After being talked to by the cops the Joad family decides its best to move quickly, however the Wilson’s’ know that Sairy wont survive the trip so they decided to stay behind. On the drive they run into an agricultural inspectors wanted to check and see if they had any produce. Ma explains that Grandma is really sick and they need to get her to a doctor, so he lets her go on by. They continue to drive and then they come to a beautiful spot along the way and they all get out to take in the beauty of California. Then Ma tells them that Granma had died, before the inspectors stopped them.

Themes:

Importance of Family

Strength of Women

Importance of land

People vs. “Moloch” – causing people to move is killing them…literally

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 17

Summary: this is more of a bigger picture chapter. As families move west they started creating their own communities with their own laws and rules. It starts with one family and then turns into 20 families until finally there is a community. The only difference however the family packs up and heads west on the road to California together.

Themes:

“We” vs. “I”

People vs. “Moloch”

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Summary: The Joads and Ivy and Sairy travel together across Oklahoma to Texas, then through New Mexico. Roseasharn tells Ma that Connie wants to take classes and get a job in a factory. Ma really doesn’t want to split up the family though. Then Al realizes that a connecting rod is broken on the car. Tom suggests that a couple of the men stay behind and fix the car while the rest of the family goes onto California. Ma refuses and says that the family needs to stay together. She threatens to hit anyone who make them split up the family, so they all decide to stay together. Al and the rest of the family head over to a camp, while Tom and Casy find a new connecting rod. They went to a junkyard and bought a connecting rod and a socket wrench. They replace the rod and drive over to the camp. They wanted to charge Tom and Casy $50 to go in so instead they park outside and walk to meet their family. Then they all talked about what lies ahead for them in California.

Themes:

People vs. “Moloch”

Strength of women

Importance of family

Characters:

The Joad family

The One eyed man – a symbol of the fact that all the farmers are getting kicked off the land but they aren’t giving up, where as all this man has lost was an eye and he gave up. People vs. “Moloch.”

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 15

Summary: this chapter switched between the bigger picture and more specific people. It talks about the burger joints along route 66, saying that Alyheru4 is like the generally silent person who does not acknowledge the people in the diners. Then there is Mae, who is the person behind the counter who is friendly and kind. As people with expensive cars and money head west and stop at these diners they manage to go in and piss off the women behind the counter because they don’t by anything and they complain and have the audacity to waste napkins when money is scarce as it is. (on a more specific note) Two truck drivers stop by a diner and while talking to Mae that explain an accident that they saw caused by a reckless driver. While this is going on a man and his two kids come in and ask for some bread. Mae doesn’t want to because the people traveling west aren’t the only ones who need to make a living, and she insists that they should buy a sandwich. But they only have so much to get them to California so Al just gets fed up and tells Mae to give them the bread, and then she ends up giving them two peppermint candies for a penny. Kind of like a domino affect, the truckers see the nice and selfless thing Mae did so they left a 35 cent tip. That shows how much doing the right thing and staying together during this hardship that everyone is facing is what its all about and nothing else can really compare, even money.

Themes:

People vs. “Moloch”, causing people to continue west and have a hard time making it, showing how scarce their money is.

“We” vs. “I” – people come together because they all know they are going through a hard time so they decide to try and stick together.

Characters:

The Truck drivers

Mae

Al

Men and Boys

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 14

Summary: this chapter is the beginning of a social shift. The theme of “I” to “We” begins to increase. And the people of California started to worry about all the on coming travelers and they started to grow anxious. The people are unaware that the changes that are happening around them are the results of circumstances, not the causes. There are many causes, such as hunger, in millions not just in a few people, like it had been in the past and men had an actual desire to work and do something useful and be productive.

Themes:

Meaning of family

“We” vs. “I”

No specific characters

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 13

Summary: the truck continues westward and eventually hits the paved highway. This makes Al worry about possible things that could cause the truck to breakdown. Al and Ma talk about what is going to happen when they get to California and Ma told Al that all that he needs to worry about is what is going on right now, and not what is in the future. They continued to drive until the sun went down and then they pulled over at a camp. They ended up camping next to a couple from Kansas whose car had broken down. The woman, Sarah or Sairy, was sick but her and her husband invited the Joad family in anyway. Then Grandpa get sick, suffers a stroke and dies. Since it costs 40 dollars to report someone dying, they decide to bury him during the night. Then Tom wrote down the cause of grandpa’s death on a page from the couple’s bible. Then, during supper, the couple talks about how Sairy being sick and their car troubles have slowed them down. So Al and Tom say they will fix their car and they suggest that the two families travel together. Sairy and Ivy refute the idea at first but then Ma convinced them that it was a good idea.

Themes:

Connection to Land

Machine vs. Nature (Car runs over the dog)

Meaning of family

Characters

Sairy and Ivy, a couple from Kansas

The Joad family

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 12

Summary: this is a chapter is about the bigger picture. It talks about route 66, which was the main route taken by the travelers heading west. It stretched from Mississippi to Bakersfield, CA. As the travelers headed west on this road they worried about their vehicles breaking down and about them running out of food and money. But they continued on hoping that what they would find in California would lead to better lives.

Themes:

People vs. “Moloch”

No specific characters

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Summary: (a poetic chapter) All the Tenant farmer’s house are empty. The only living things left are the people who run the tractors. There is a comparison between the horse and tractor saying that a horse continually lives, even after a day’s work however a tractor dies once the motor is shut off. (This represents the theme of Nature vs. Machine). Eventually the land will become completely vacant and the only creatures or life that will disturb the dust that covers the land will be the wild animals, the wild animals mind you that are not being controlled by “Moloch.”

Themes:

· Nature vs. Machine

· People vs. “Moloch”

No specific characters

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Summary: Tom and Ma talk about what they will be doing when they get to California, such as working of fruit farms picking fruit and working in the shade, and they talk about how much it sounds too good to be true. Then Casy asks if he can ride with the family and go west with them, and Ma says it is all right with her, but when the “Council” gets together tonight she will let them decide. Then the truck returns to the house and Ruthie, Winfield, Rose of Sharon, Pa, Uncle John ad Al all get out of the truck and are all happy to see Tommy again. However they are discouraged because they only got 18 dollars for all their belongings and household items. Later that evening the “council” met outside the truck. They talked about letting the preacher come along. And they decided it was a good Idea to have a preacher on the trip incase there was a wedding or a death. Then they start getting all packed up for the trip, by slaughtering the pigs and salt-packing the pork into barrels and then load the rest of the belongings into the truck. The truck is ready by the next morning. In the morning before they leave Muley Graves comes to see them off, however, Grandpa decides he doesn’t want to leave and starts refusing. So Ma puts sleep medicine in his coffee which knocks him out fast. He gets loaded into the back of the truck and then they take off. They all watch their home disappear into the distance.

Themes:

· The importance of the land to the people (it was hard for them to leave their home and they all watched it as they drove away)

· The importance of family (they wont let grandpa stay behind)

· People vs. “Moloch” (they could only get $18 for all there household items and belongings)

Nature vs. Machine (the car is what is most important to the family now, not the land)

Characters:

· Pa

· Ma

· Uncle John

· Muley Graves

· Connie

· Rosasharn

· Ruthie

· Winfield

· Al

· Casy

· Tom

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Summary: This is a chapter that refers to the bigger picture in the book. The Tenants have to decide what belongings they get to take with them and what ever they decide they can’t take with them have to be sold for very cheap prices. People try and bargain for the tenants personal belongings and they don’t realize what some of the items mean to the people. They are able to get the belongings for way lower then usual prices because they know the desperateness of the farmers and they know how much they need to sell the items in order to move west. What ever the Tenants couldn’t sell had to be burned. Realizing that all their belongings and items that meant a lot to them had been sold or burned made them want to leave quickly.

Themes:

· We vs I

· People vs Molach

No specific characters.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Casy and Tom leave for Uncle John's house early in the morning. While walking, Tom tells Casy about Uncle john on their walk. He tells him that he was married once but then his wife ad a stomach ache and he said that she was fine, but then she died of appendicitis and he blamed himself for it for years. Then they approach Uncle John’s house and they see that they are getting ready to head west. Then Tom surprises Pa and they plan a surprise on Ma who is cooking breakfast. Both the parents suspect that “Tommy” broke out of jail, but he reassures them that he didn’t. Tom is angry that they have been forced from their home, but Ma cautions him that he can't fight the bank alone. She Figures that if they are all angry and they ban together, then the bank wont be able to stop them. Then they sit and eat breakfast and he is reunited with his Grandpa and Grandma. Grandma makes Casy Say Grace even though he isn’t a preacher anymore and they wont eat until he says Amen. He is also reunited with his Brother Noah who looks up to him. He learns that his younger brother, Al, is out chasing girls, and Rose of Sharon, his younger sister, is now married to Connie Rivers, she is pregnant. And the two youngest in the Joad Family, Winfield who is 10 and Ruthie who is 12, have gone to Sallisaw with Uncle John to sell a load of household belongings. Once they get everything sold they should have about $150 for their trip and they decide they will be leaving in a couple days.

Characters:

Grandpa – hilarious old man

Grandma – super religious

Noah – oldest son, an impression that he is deformed, but we don’t know how. He is quiet and not interested in anything.

Al – he is 16, out chasing girls, younger brother, the mechanic, he looks up to Tom because he killed someone and that makes him cool.

Rose of Sharon – younger, sister, pregnant, married to Connie Rivers..

Ruthie – younger sister

Winfield – Youngest Brother

Uncle John

Pa Joad

Ma Joad

Tom Joad

Jim Casy – become the first member of the extended family.

Themes:

Importance of family

Words of the day

Zenith - anna's anger reached its zenith when danny wrecked her brand new car.

Scuttle - anna scuttled along the street in an effort to make it to the store to get candy before it closed.

Declivity - the Declivity of anna's effort in school made it hard for her to pass.

Bemuse - anna's constantly bemused face in english class started to get on fielding's nerves.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Summary: this was one of the poetic chapters and one of the "bigger picture" chapters. Once again the Farmers who have been mistreated and kicked off their land are facing worsening prospects. They are trying to sell anything thing that they have left such as household goods so they can buy cars and transportation to carry them west. A salesman does well to sell them barely running jalopies at way higher than usual prices so he can make a large profit. He manages to make them seem like good cars by pouring sawdust into the engines to make them sound like they are running good. And even though the tenants realize they are being taken advantage of, they are no other options and there are no better cars around that they can afford so they have to settle with the piece of crap cars this salesman is selling.

Characters: (this is one of the bigger picture chapters so there aren’t real characters just some random ones that don’t matter)

· Jim

· Joe

· Salesman (fast talking B.S.er)

Theme

· People vs. “Moloch”: I would say this could be a theme in this chapter because it was because of Moloch that they were kicked off their land and it was because of the Monster as well. And because they were kicked off their land they had to buy these crappy cars so they could continue to move west so they could try and start their lives over again and gain some more land. And it shows the struggle the people are having because of Moloch.

The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Summary: Casy and Tom went to the Joad house and they see that the fences were taken away and that the cotton was growing all over the place. And then they see that the house is all pushed out of shape and they check to see if the Joad family had left Joad a note but there isn’t one so they realize the house was just deserted. Then They are sitting out on the porch and Tom remembers he still had the turtle with him, so he un wraps the turtle and lets him go, and he heads off in the same direction he was going when Tom picked him up. Then they see Muley Graves approaching them, and Tom demands to know if he knows where his folks are. He says that they got pushed off the land and they are staying with Uncle John. Muley’s family went to California with out him because he was unable to leave the land that he grew up on. Then Muley has them eat dinner with him and he talks about how hard and different it has been living alone and it make Casy realize that what he needs to do is go on the road and comfort all the other deprived people. Where as Tom realized that he would be breaking his parole if he goes out of state with his family. That a car pulls up and the three of them hide so they wont get busted for “trespassing.” Then they go hide and sleep in a small cave and they plan to move to Uncle John’s the next day.

Characters:

· Casy

· Tom

· Muley Graves

· Willy freely - the tractor man/deputy - sheriff/the man owned by the bank - the $3.00 a day man

Themes:

· We vs. I

· The importance of the land to the people (Muley stayed on the land he grew up on instead of going with his family because he didn’t want the monster to take it away from him.

· The Importance of family (Tom is determined to get reunited with his family)

Words of the day

Rivulet - the rivulet ran along the train track and all the tourists awed in its beauty as they rode by in the train.

Germinate - Jayce germinated in to a potty mouth after hanging out with rori to much.

Words of the day

Anna's Pique attitude about failing english caused her to lash out, which landed her in detention.

Although Polly had an imperturbably personality, Jayce still knew how to get under her skin and make her angry.

Chapter 7 Study Questions

1) It means that Gatsby’s life is over as a famous, wealthy and luxurious man who throws parties and things.
2) At the beginning of the chapter she kisses him in her own house and she is in love with him and she is determined to leave Tom for Gatsby.
3) They both discover that their wives are cheating on them, George doesn’t know who Myrtle is cheating with but Tom knows Daisy is cheating on him with Gatsby. George gets sick and pale and Tom gets angry and he wont stand for it so he exposes Gatsby’s money secrets.
4) She loves the idea of Gatsby, he is mysterious, he makes her feel good about her self, they don’t really know each other though so they cant really be in love.
5) Tom finds out Gatsby has been seeing his wife, so he exposes the secret of where Gatsby gets his money. They both hate each other.
6) Turning thirty means responsibility, time to quit playing games, be an adult, reality starts to set in
7) I think they are deciding or talking about moving, because that is what they did before when Daisy found out Tom was cheating. Tom probably knows she was driving which is another good reason for them to leave town.
8) Because Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle. However Daisy has no idea who she is and Myrtle thought it was Tom in the car because she saw him in the car because he was driving it to New York.
9) He is a ghost, kind of like Gatsby’s past. He shows up out of nowhere, and no one knows anything about him.
10) Because Tom and Daisy’s marrige was supposed to be ending, and the plaza hotel in New York is Ironic because New York is a place where dreams meet reality.
11) Being full of money. And is like the American dream, it also really attracts people just like he voice does.
12) Jordan invites Nick in and he says no he is going to head home because he is dealing with all that is going on. Jordan doesn’t really seem to be affected by what is going on and that kind of worries Nick.
13) With Daisy and Tom leaving town. Gatsby keeps tabs on them and secretly follows them.

Words of the day

aspirations - i have great aspirations that i will pass english 11

Words of the day

Affable: Jayce was no longer affable when she found out she had a quiz

Exasperate: Mr. Fielding Exasperated Jayce when pretend to give her a quiz all class period.

Words of the day

rendezvous - Jayce and anna planned a rendezvous at polly's house with out her knowing.
indulgence - Anna's indulgence in the icecream was sickening.
prestigious - Jayce was a Prestigious girl who was missed by all when she left for haines
prominent - Jayce was the prominent leader of the class.

Video Questions 1-7 (sorry fielding, forgot to post)

1.
Capitalism – Tom,
Southern tradition - Daisy
Middle class - Nick
Lower class – George, Myrtle,
Midwest – good calm
East – power and corruption

2.
• I would want to belong to more of a middle class because it would actually show that you worked harder for your money, rather than just inheriting it. People who actually put hard work into things are well rounded and would have better opportunities.

3.
• The Valley of Ashes represents the death of the American Dream.

• The Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg are the eyes of God. They are on a billboard in the valley of ashes.

• The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock represents Gatsby’s hope for him and daisy being together one day.

• The mantle clock represents Gatsby’s connection to time. He wants to stop time and go live in the past. When he is sitting there talking with daisy in Nicks house, where they were reacquainted for the first time in years, his mind goes back to before he left for the military and how happy they were. Then when the clock falls, it shows that he can’t go back in time and that he is living in the present.

• She came from a wealthy family, which can be why her voice is “full of money”. And Gatsby starts to think that she is just staying with tom because of his money, so when she says she is staying with him her voice is being full of money.

4. Tom is old money. He is a racist and very controlling. He is also a womanizer and has cheated on Daisy with several women since they have been married.
Gatsby is new money. He wants Daisy more than anything else and he genuinely cares about her. He is one of, if not the only, nice character in the novel.

5. Daisy loves Gatsby, but she wont leave Tom because he has money, which makes her feel safe. When you love someone, which is all that is supposed to matter, as long as you are together. This shows that the American Dream is corrupted by the desire and security of money, and it manages to ruin the one pure thing in the world. Another example is the World Series in 1919, thrown by Wolfsheim. Baseball was an innocent sport and represented the American dream. But when Wolfsheim Gambled and brought money into the equation, he corrupted it.

6.
• In the Jazz age, everything was going, going, going. Great music, people were cheerful, there were movie stars and glamour. Much like how Gatsby’s parties are ran. He has party’s all the time (mostly to attract Daisy), and all sorts of people from West Egg, East Egg and New York come and just have a good time.

7.
• In New York City, a places where dreams meet reality. Tom knows where Gatsby gets his money from and so Daisy isn’t strong enough to take the risk and leave the security of Tom’s money for Gatsby.

Words of the day

Mesmerize (V) Anna was able to mesmerize the security guard with her beauty while Jayce and Rori snuck into the icecream factory

Sardonic (adj) Anna's sardonic attitude started to annoy Mapi.

Word of the day

Fractiousness (N) - Anna's Fractiousness at the party got her beaten up and kicked out.

Words of the day

infinitesimal - Anna was jealous of Mapi's infinitesimal physique.

supercilious - Anna's supercilious attitude causes people to resent her.

Chapter 2 questions 1-14

1) it is halfway between West Egg and New York, and it is a farm where ashes build up, like an old industrial site. Everything is grey, and it symbolizes shadow of death.

2) They are the eyes of God. His face is on a billboard, they are watching everything and they see everything, even though there is no one there.

3) Spiritless, Anemic, faintly hansom. His wife, Myrtle Wilson, is kind of opposite because she is so lively. She walks by him like he is dead and metaphorically he is.

4) New York is the place where dreams hit reality. Every time they go there their dreams run into reality. Myrtle dream disappears in New York and realizes Tom will never leave Daisy for her. And Tom smacks Myrtle in the face and breaks her nose.

5) It is a gossip magazine, it symbolizes that New York is a gossip town. And it is a foreshadow that they are going to be in the Town Tattle.

6) They live below the apartment that Tom and Myrtle have their affair in. He is not very successful, he needs an entry into the photography business.

7) She is the only one sober and she is Myrtle’s sister. She likes to butt into everyone’s conversations. Not the nicest character.

8) That she is catholic and she doesn’t believe in Divorce.

9) Everyone has dreams, he dream is to be rich and famous and admired. But when she married George he lied about what he said he was and so now she resents him for it.

10) She thinks of the dog the way Tom thinks of women, and her. “I want to get one for the apartment, they are nice to have, a dog.” She wants dogs of really true breading but gets a mutt, like her.

11) All of her money was stolen in Monty Carlo.

12) She says he is related to Kaizer, which makes people think that he is from old money when they really don’t know that he comes from new money.

13.) She married George because he had dreams and she thought he was going to do good things. She found out thought that he had become worthless and she regrets the marriage. When she was choosing her dog she first asked for a police dog an then a few more pure breeds but there were none so she had to get the mutt, now she has a mutt instead of a pure bread just like her marriage she is married to a worthless man instead of a rich confident man.

14.) Myrtle was bugging Tom about Daisy she was saying Daisy’s name repeatedly in order to anger Tom, so he hit her. This shows how much Tom really doesn’t care about Myrtle. Myrtle feels way more for Tom then he does for her. To Tom she is just another woman to sleep with, but to Myrtle Tom is this life that she has always wanted.

Words of the Day

Levity - Jayce made Levity of the water fight that the principle walked in on by asking if he wanted to join

Extemporize: (verb) Jayce began to extemporize an excuse for why she came home at 3 in the morning.

Words of the day

Feigned - anna's feigned attitude about her shin hurting started to get on her teammates nerves
Languidly - Anna's languid state of mind made her class upset with her because she was the only one not applying herself.
Colossal - anna's uses he colossal butt to box people out in the basketball.
Complacency - Anna's complacency about her grades caused her to be a super senior

Chapter 1 1-11

1.) Notice how Fitzgerald uses the words hope, or dream. Why does he do this?

It’s setting up the theme the death of the American dream, he uses them to show that although many say they want to live few do. The use of these words show that the American dream is close to impossible.

2.) Nick starts the novel by revealing his father’s advice “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” List Nick’s advantage. Does he reserve judgment in the novel?

Nick is not poor; he brings up the idea of new money. He has to work for money but he didn’t come from nothing. He has had the opportunity to travel across the country which shows how not poor he is. When he hears things about other he will keep his judgments to himself.

3.) Pay attention to time. What is the day and year during the first scene at Daisy’s house?

June 7th, 1922

4.) Describe Nick. What facts do you know about him, and what do you infer about him? What kind of narrator do you think he will be?

He was west born, but wanted to move east to go to school at Yale. He is originally from Chicago, and does not come from old money. Although he is not extremely wealthy he is not poor either, his family owns a hardware store that has been in his family for 3 or 4 generations. He will be a reliable narrator because he is honest and good.

5.) What image does the author use to describe Jordan Baker? What does it mean?

She is not like average women of that time. She is smart and individual, and when talking to Nick she seems a little standoffish. She raises her chin, which is one of the first things Nick notices, she is holding something up and it will easily fall.

6.) How does Nick react to Jordon?

He was intimidated.

7.) What does Tom’s behavior reveal about his character?

Tom, although an ex famous college football player is a total jerk. He is racist because he is racist and sexist, but he thinks that he is super smart and clever because he is reading a “scientific” book. He is living in the past because he can’t get over is glory days as a football player.

8.) What does nick say about Daisy’s voice? What does this say about Daisy?

Her voice is very calm and it draws people in, her laugh is described as charming.

9.) Daisy says, “The best thing for a girl is to be a beautiful little fool”. Why does she say this and what does she mean by it. What do you think it infers about her?

They are living in a mans world. Daisy was very sad when she found out that her baby was a boy because a girl can’t live in this time unless she acts as a beautiful little fool. It shows that she is hiding back her true self so she doesn’t lose her wealthy life.

10.) How do you feel about Tom? What details about him stick out? How is he an allied to Nick? What type of husband is he? Why? What books has he recently read and what does this infer about him? How does Nick respond?

He is a racist, sexist womanizer. You can tell that he is a typical rich boy who does whatever he wants because he has money. He is a terrible husband because he is having an affair with a woman in New York also he is very controlling. He is reading a book about the other races taking over the white population, which he thinks is scientific because he is racist. He belongs to old wealth.

11.) What is the difference between Nick and the Buccanhans?

Nick is not from old wealth he is from new wealth he lives on the west egg, which represents new wealth and the east egg represents old wealth. Nick doesn’t care as much about money as tom and daisy do.

Words of the day.

Wan (Adj) - Anna had a wan complexion that worried her parents, they thought she had become deathly ill.

Prodigality (adj) (but i used it as a noun) - Anna's prodigal attitude toward money set her up to live at home for the rest of her life and live off of her parents money.

Semester 2 Vocabulary words

Wan – (Adj) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion
Prodigality – (Adj) spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant
Feigned – (V) pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury)
Languidly – (Adj) displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed
Colossal – (Adj) extremely large
Complacency – (N) a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements
Levity – (N) humor or frivolity, esp. the treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect
Extemporizing – (V) compose, perform, or produce something such as music or a speech without preparation; improvise
Supercilious – (Adj) behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
Infinitesimal – (Adj) extremely small
Fractiousness – (Adj) easily irritated; bad-tempered