Saturday, April 23, 2011

Grapes Of Wrath: Chapter 6

Themes:
People vs. Moloch, Connection to the land

Characters:

Muley Graves-

symbol of a man who cannot leave the land. Symbol that a poor man is something; he has land. What is he if he leaves? He sends his kids and wife to California but he can’t leave.

He is stubborn- he will not leave until he is dead

Willy Frewley-

The tractor man/deputy-sheriff/man owned by the bank/$3 a day man

He is not free, he has to work

Tom Joad-

Main character

Jim Casey-

He was a preacher. He found something to live for again, he would go on with the Joad’s


Summary:

They find that the Joad house has been pushed over but is not yet destroyed totally. Tom finds out that something is wrong, nobody is there, not even neighbors. Something really bad has happened because nothing was really taken, just destroyed. As if whoever did it wasn't looking for them, they were just in the way.

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