Chapters 1-10
Prompt: F

In this novel there is a repetition in theme as theme occurs often.  As there deciding to make there move to the west, family is very important to them as they have to decide on many things as for their trip.


"And then all of a sudden, the family began to function. Pa got up and a lighted another lantern. Noah from a box in the kitchen, brought out the bow-bladed butchering knife and whetted it on a worn little carborundum stone. And he laid the scraper on the chopping block, and the knife beside it. Pa brought two sturdy sticks, each three feet long, and pointed the ends with the ax, and he tied strong ropes, double half-hitched, to the middle of the sticks." (Chapter 10.Page 114)

This paragraph illustrates how they all have to work together.At times the Joad family does not even need to communicate as they are all working together very well. When they are working well together, they are at their bests, but when they begin to become distressed and scared, there communication does not work well. They have yet come to realize that they will only make it though this with each other, but once they realize this, going west will become easy for them, .

                                  

Poem Chapter 16-19

 In this poem we experience some of the feelings of a third person seeing a traveler,  and how this "Okie Girl" must feel. In this poem we are given examples of how these experiences has changed them. Like in the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, people want to move west for the oppurtunites as well as a fresh start at life. This poem expresses how many feelings this girl feels and how in the end they "love" the adventure. 


David Nelson

Okie Girl

Okie Girl

When I look at you,
I see my version of heaven
with all the stars that fill the skies
right there in your eyes

When I look at you,
I see my dreams come true
everything I ever wanted
everything I ever needed

When I look at you,
I see the sadness on your face
I hear the tears come falling down
the tears I sometimes cause

When I look at you,
I feel the pain you have inside you
I hear the laughter you sometimes release
the laughter I sometimes create

When I look at you,
I weep because I cannot have you
I cry because I cannot please you
feelings of ineptness fill my mind

When I look at you,
I know I have no answers
no ways of resolution
to fill your void

When I look at you,
I condemn the day I wandered in
into your life to complicate
into your world where I had no place

When I look at you,
I know no way to step aside
to leave where I do not belong
to put things back where they were 

When I look at you,
I wonder how are lives will ever be
ever be the same again
ever be the way we want them to be

When I look at you I know
I cannot ever be with you
I do not want to be without you
I depise my life and the mess I have made

when I look at you
I wonder if you will ever forgive me
I wonder how I will go on if you don't
I know how much I love you


Gomer LePoet...


 http://hellopoetry.com/words/149614/okie/poems/

Chapters 11-15 Grapes of Wrath
(B)

Route 66

During the time of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s many migrators moved West from the drought in hope for a new life away from the dryness of the past. Many migrators were in need for an easy route to get to the west, to on November 11, 1926 the Highway 66 was made for the benefit of the travelers. The route is about 2,448 miles long. This highway has also been known to be called the "Mother Road"/

                                          
This route allowed many to travel easier and faster. This route is significant to Joad and his family because this was the road that was going to take him away from the drought-ridden Oklahoma, and to a hopeful new future in California. Many families   like Joad's were in hope for a new future that they could start their lives and this was the highway to take them.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66
https://www.google.com/search?q=highway+66&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Rn0iU6XaGsbeoATguIBY&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1680&bih=904
 

Journnal (F)

"A little bit ahead he saw the high-domed shell of a land turtle, crawling slowly along through the dust ... Joad picked it up and turned it over. The back was brown-gray, like the dust, but the underside of the shell was creamy yellow, clean and smooth." (page 18)

The turtle has been reoccuring in the novel in these early chapters and the turtle can be shown as a symbol of hopes and dreams. In chapter three, the turtle had been turned over and eventually got back up to strolling along. That showed that although it took a while for the turtle to turn back over, he still managed to do it while not giving up. In this quote, the turtle has been mentioned again. Though this time Joad notices it and takes hold of it. The way the turtle is described is important, because on the outside of the turtle is, "brown" and "like the dust" meaning that it has been through hard conditions. Although, the inside of the turtle on the bottom is, "clean" and "smooth" meaning that side has been undamaged. The description can be connected to a dream, because perhaps on the outside of your dream can be warn down and damaged by continually trying to strive for it, but on the inside it is still your dream and you must continue to work at it. Joad has hopes and dreams himself, and picking up this turtle can forshadow that although maintaining his dreams will be difficult, if he continues to try, he will eventually succeed.

"Well, they been choppin' cotton, all of 'em, even the kids an' your grampa." (page 46)

This quotes illustrates the theme of family and community. Everyone has to work together in order to be able to survive as a whole. This shows how family is very important because without the help of everyone, young or old, their communtiy will not work. This has been a reoccuring theme because working in numbers is best at your advantage. Plus, it makes everyone thankful that they have people to stand by them through hard times. Which they do need during this drought, to obtain closure.