The Grapes of Wrath (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Fill in the gap: "One man on a ＿＿＿＿＿ can take the place of twelve or fourteen families"
Narrator, Chapter 5
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Fill in the gap: "One man on a ＿＿＿＿＿ can take the place of twelve or fourteen families"
Narrator, Chapter 5
Answer: "One man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families"
Fill in the gap: "the ＿＿＿＿＿ of the family"
Narrator, Chapter 8
Answer: "the citadel of the family"
Fill in the gap: "you can reach out anywhere and pick an ＿＿＿＿＿"
A landowner, Chapter 5
Answer: "you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange"
Key quote: "but the monster's sick. Something's happened to the monster"
Narrator, Chapter 5
Analysis
The economic system is personified as a creature nobody controls any more. Calling it sick suggests the crisis is beyond any single owner's power to fix.
Key quote: "Only the tractor sheds of corrugated iron, silver and gleaming, were alive; and they were alive with metal and gasoline and oil"
Narrator, Chapter 11
Analysis
The machinery is described as alive while the land and the people are not. Petrol and oil take the place of blood, so industry now holds the life of the farm.
Key quote: "Gonna get me a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush, or whatever, an' I'm gonna squash 'em on my face an' let 'em run offen my chin"
Grampa Joad, Chapter 8
Analysis
Grampa imagines California as pure appetite, with fruit he can crush against his face. Making the American Dream so physical is what makes his death before arrival so bitter.
Key quote: "And still the family stood about like dream walkers, their eyes focused panoramically"
Narrator, Chapter 10
Analysis
The family look at everything at once and take in no detail. The imagery of sleepwalking suggests their dream has stopped feeling real.
Key quote: "The eyes of the whole family shifted back to Ma. She was the power. She had taken control"
Narrator, Chapter 16
Analysis
Short, plain sentences mark the moment authority passes to Ma. The family turning to her shows gender roles changing under pressure.
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