Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Questions 12-15

1. To show the regular life as families in the great depression, because it happened so much during that time it shows it from a bigger point of a bigger view. 
2. Highway 66 was very important because it traveled through so many states: Chicago, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. It represents a road to a new place a better and more safe place. Like getting lost in a cave and finding the light out. In north africa there was a magic square that the numbers inside it made 66 and it ment complete wealth or get rich quick.
3. It means there screwing someone over because service means getting a cow pregnant while in business it means screwed. Hes in it to make money that is all not because he likes it but the money 
4. People are scared of some strange things and try to run away from it being cruel but it can be beautiful which makes it strange and its weird you dont believe it so you have to forget what you believe in.
5. Its like there asking questions just because they want to and not answers its repeating over and over again like a broken record.
6. He says the greatest evil is suppose to be the devil because he was a paster but really thats not the greatest evil he could be referring to the hungry monster
7. Its like you can't teach a old dog new tricks so grandpa died because of that, and so did the dog maybe the dog wanted to die because it couldn't take traveling. That old people can't go on after they live for a while.
8. Because a bunch of people are moving to the states and there might not be enough jobs and it will be gone. The major problems is that there the enemy because of that.
9.We and I fits because at first your just I and low and weak but if you are we you work together and will go through challages together, Like a track team for a 4 by 4 is useless unless you have a team and are we.
10. They convince people to buy Coke by saying male or female get results. It shows the american dream as for woman, rich, power, and fame.
11.) Concerns are growing old and ugly. They use oils, creams, everything they can to make themselves look younger. They are afraid of the sun, earth, and food in general. The men are worried about businesses.
12) The wealthy and the poor fight in this part of the book. The wealthy will take everything and give nothing in return like the business man just trying to get a good deal. The poor however show high standards and are a better person and dont just try to get money

Monday, April 23, 2012

questions part 3

1. He wants to show corruption and the greed of the salesman. The sales man wants to sell every car so, to guilt them into buying, he makes them feel like they wasted his time. Any money is good for the sales people.
2.She is a building that helps and protects her family and what keeps the family up
3. Basically, grandpa and grandma were both hasty and mean and loved to start stuff. They could argue to each other and they loved. They needed it to get their anger out to stay together it was what brought them close.
4.Reference to Noah's Ark in bible
5. There saying its not just junk, its part of their lives its their items they have had for years and years but now they have to sell it and everyone is calling it junk.
6. We could've helped you but you stopped us and destroyed us, but now your going to fall and i nobody can save you but now we cant because of your own doing
7. It sounds to good to be true but the posters say "yea its amazing" and everything so she seems she has to believe it but its really not.
8. Casey wanted to go to California to just observe like a tourist not a actually hobo or trying to find a job.
9. The Rose of Sharon was a high spirited and happy person but once she became pregnant she became more like a mystery. Hes proud of her because she is going to be a mother but he is feared because she is acting so different now that she has the baby.
10. The Joads dont understand why the buyer wants it for so little to just get the object for the least amount of money when the Joads could have sold it for more  

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Discuss quesiton 2

1# The owners are  banks, characterized by a large, destructive monster who sucks up everything and eats the farmer's. The banks are used because they are involve money and only get it; the top priorities, leave little room for farmers of the land that they work. It repossesses the land and does it for money.

2# IT GROWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3# Tractors= insects= locust= plague

4#

5# They feel that the repossession isn't fair because it is the farmers life. They work it hold on to it mentally want it its there home. They are not wanted and need to get out. However, the irony is that the farmers are mad that they are getting kicked off their land, when grampa got the indians kicked out.

6# The gate was never kept open after the incident. It showed no one was there or they were all dead
 
7# Its like the bank is the white people and the land is the Indians where what they want is taking away.

8# Muley means hornless. He wants to be stubborn and keep his land. Graves= death or where the dead remain. It fits like its a ghost town its gone no one lives there 

9# It's too costly to keep people all the land. The bank ignores this completely. The bank is greedy and just wants more and more money.

10# He feels as if he haves to becasue they doen't have any food while Murray does.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Questions of 24

10. Consumers would pay a small average amount over a period of time

11. He was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

12. Bessie Smith. Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington.

13. The government attacked communists. The government raided homes, and arrested people in the thousands. They were trying to find dynamite and and a lot of weapons.

14. He did not want to join them he actually hated them. 

15. New music, radio, baseball, football.

Monday, April 2, 2012

discuss questions

2. The woman act on the man while the man appear strong and they dont know what to do so the woman stand their and wait for the man to act. And as long as the men dont give up then there is hope.
3. It shows part of his background and it makes you wonder what happened and also where is he going to go to the city to drink or commit a crime or maybe go back home to mommy to say i'm sorry
4. That the flies can't do things and go to inside but the farmers are trying to do something and they can't do it.
5. He just got the clothes that were standred and it shows you had a very bad past.
6. That he is a good guy that just tries to not be nosy and mean to people. He was proving that he wasn't like the rich basterds. We vs I.
7.  They attention or to do differnt things then there boring jobs
8. it shows workers, because they work had no matter what.
9. they're just what people say and do thats it.
10. because he was like moses and he followed god until he couldn't make sence anymore
11. People vs Molloch, because its like the saying don't let the flame die out for the people to keep going even though the bank is mean.