DAY 3 - Grapes of Wrath (sitios de interés)
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611 MilesChapter Sixteen: The Wilson's car breaks down outside of Santa Rosa, NM
Connie and Rosesharn tell the family about "their dreams." Ma gets upset realizing that the family might break up. Have you ever made a choice that required you to "abandon" something or someone that you really cared about? Have you ever given up a dream because you realized it would upset someone you cared about?
Many people find the scene where Ma revolts and threatens to "whup" Pa to be funny, but in the end there's a sadness too. Have you ever found something to be funny and then realized it was sort of sad? How does this scene help explain the old saying, "I had to laugh so I wouldn't cry"?
Casey hints that he is worried about what is happening in the country and Tom doesn't want to deal with it. He just wants to "put one foot in front a the other." Do you think Tom is wise not to worry too much or is he in denial about something he should really be thinking about? Have you ever "put something important out of your mind" because you just didn't want to think about it? How'd that work out for you?
Tom has a lengthy conversation with a one-eyed service station attendant. What are your opinions of Tom's advice to the one-eyed man? Was Tom being cruel or helpful?
At one point in the chapter Tom gets upset because the family is too poor to pay fifty cents to camp. Tom complains and the man responds,...
"Well, we all got to make a livin'."
"Yeah," Tom said. "On''y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
We all have to make a living. The question is, do we have to take advantage of others to do so? What kinds of jobs require people to take advantage of others?
Though not educated, the Joad family is hard working and proud, but they have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own. Yet, because they must be very frugal with their money and because they have to scrape just to get food, they are perceived as vagrants and bums who are "no better than animals." Why are some people prejudiced against the less fortunate and therefore allow themselves to treat the unfortunate as bad people not worthy of compassion?
Near the very end of the chapter, Tom responds to a taunt that he is "one of these here troublemakers" by saying, "Damn right,...I'm bolshevisky."
See if you can figure out what he's saying by reading this short definition of Bolshevik. Do you think Tom seriously considers himself to be a Bolshevik? Why?