John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Title: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Category: Literature | Words: 1982 | Pages: 8.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
"And this I believe:
that the free, exploring mind of the individual human
is the most valuable thing in all the world.
And this I would fight for:
the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
And this I must fight against:
any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."
In 1939, as the United States was nearing the end of the Great …
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showed last 75 words of 1982 total…lose their dignity. This notion receives particular reinforcement in Steinbeck's images of the festering grapes of wrath (chapter twenty-five), and in the last of the short, expository chapters (chapter twenty-nine), in which the worker women, watching their husbands and brothers and sons, know that these men will remain strong "as long as fear [can] turn to wrath." The women's certainty is based on their understanding that the men's wrath bespeaks their healthy sense of self-respect.
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