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- 91: Grapes Of Wrath, Ma Joad
- Ma Joad is one of the main characters in John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath. Ma is a strong, wife and mother who is the leader of the family. She does anything to keep the family together. In Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck uses two literary techniques, direct description and portrayal of characters behavior, to create the character, Ma Joad. With the use of the literary technique, direct description, Steinbeck describes Ma's physical appearance. He describes her as, "heavy, but not fast; thick with childbearing and work." "Her thin, steel gray hair was gathered in a spore wispy ...
- 92: East Of Eden
- East Of Eden When a person is rejected they form a resentment towards others. This resentment forms anger. "And with rejection comes anger"(steinbeck, p. 355) This is a way rejection leads to anger. Resentment can start at an early age and never go away. Cathy was rejected as a child and then she ... and guilt. Revenge is pursued when a person is rejected by others. With revenge comes more evil and crime. "I am sure my self that there would be fewer jails"(Steinbeck p.355) Revenge causes people to do bad things which gets them into trouble. When revenge takes over the person becomes obsessed and they tend to go physco." I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be who he is. Maybe there would be fewer crazy people"(Steinbeck p.355) The people are crazy becasue they have been rejected and obsessed with revenge. This revenge just manifests to crime and more evil. After anger and revenge the ...
- 93: A Literary Analysis Of East Of
- ... another person. Love can bring two people together but it can also have a person be rejected by another because of love. In the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck, the main character, Adam Trask, confronts a feeling of love throughout the whole book but he either rejects the love of people who care about him or has his love ... she shot him. Even though Adam survived he was demoralized for most of his life because he still loved her. Through Adam’s experiences of love in the novel, John Steinbeck shows that Adam Trask has an inability to handle love. When he first appears in the novel, Adam Trask is a young man who is not loved by his brother ... have. This may be a bad thing to tell you, but it’s true. I love you better. Else why would I have given myself the trouble of hurting you?” (Steinbeck 28). Cyrus is telling Adam that he has always loved him and that the only reason that he punished him is because he loved him. He wants Adam to ...
- 94: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath has left much specifically untold about the authors true intentions on this book. His epic chronicle has been described as being "Written with passionate conviction" (Dorothy Parker). This passionate conviction has led John Steinbeck into mastering bold dramatization. His skills at the art of dramatization in literature was not solely used in The Grapes of Wrath, but also used in another of his twisted and possibly controversial works called Of Mice and Men. One of John Steinbeck's main and possibly most obvious themes, is the hostility and frequent hatred between the migrant workers and the already socially and financially established Californians. There are many examples ...
- 95: Grapes Of Wrath, Ma Joad
- Ma Joad is one of the main characters in John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath. Ma is a strong, wife and mother who is the leader of the family. She does anything to keep the family together. In Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck uses two literary techniques, direct description and portrayal of characters behavior, to create the character, Ma Joad. With the use of the literary technique, direct description, Steinbeck describes Ma's physical appearance. He describes her as, "heavy, but not fast; thick with childbearing and work." "Her thin, steel gray hair was gathered in a spore wispy ...
- 96: Of Mice And Men 2
- ... Curly and George, but Slim, Candy and Carlson were there too. The setting of this scene was in the bunkhouse in the ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made ... far we get the idea that the bunkhouse was not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of entertainment in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this setting with images of light and darkness next to each other. As Steinbeck said outside there is "evening brightness" and inside there is "dusk". When Steinbeck says that inside there is dusk, it's almost like a foreshadow of what's going ...
- 97: Themes of Struggle, Social Oppression and Money in The Pearl
- ... Spanish people took advantage of this acceptance when the priest said that it is not an Indians place to try to break out of oppression and the Indians accepted this. Steinbeck used many other species of life to show that man is a part of nature. For example, Steinbeck uses the image of the quarreling ants as a comparison to the town. When Kino catches his wife throwing away the pearl, he hisses like a snake and beats her ... make it to the capital and is again refered to as a snake slithering stealthily through the sand. Another comparison between man and nature is that of the colonial animal. Steinbeck says that the village is a lot like the colonial animal in that if one person does something the rest react. This also carries on to suggest that just ...
- 98: Character Roles In Steinbecks
- Character Roles in Steinbeck s The Chrysanthemums In The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck, the role of Elisa shifts several times throughout the story, from the loving, sensitive wife, to strong, independent woman and back. This all comes about from a meeting with a ... she stands in front of the mirror naked, staring at her body. Upon Henry s return, she presses him for his thoughts on her appearance. These things make Elisa a Steinbeck strong woman, with seemingly masculine traits: The woman chooses a traditional feminine activity, gardening, as a creative outlet, yet the dedication with which each undertakes her project is of ...
- 99: Grapes of Wrath: An Undaunted Journey
- ... a salmon swimming up stream to fullfill it's life line. Intense drive and extreme fortitude are qualities they had to possess during their travels. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck shows the Joads endurance by his use of extended metaphors in intercalary chapters. Steinbeck uses intercalary chapters to provide background for the various themes in the novel. This effectively forshadows upcoming events by telling of the general state of the local population in the ... then narrowing it down to how it effects the main characters of the novel, the Joads. Setting the tone of the novel in the readers mind is another function of Steinbeck's intercalary chapters. In chapter three, Steinbeck emaculatly describes the long tedious journey of a land turtle across a desolate highway. From the onset of his journey, the turtle ...
- 100: East Of Eden
- East Of Eden When a person is rejected they form a resentment towards others. This resentment forms anger. "And with rejection comes anger"(steinbeck, p. 355) This is a way rejection leads to anger. Resentment can start at an early age and never go away. Cathy was rejected as a child and then she ... and guilt. Revenge is pursued when a person is rejected by others. With revenge comes more evil and crime. "I am sure my self that there would be fewer jails"(Steinbeck p.355) Revenge causes people to do bad things which gets them into trouble. When revenge takes over the person becomes obsessed and they tend to go physco." I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be who he is. Maybe there would be fewer crazy people"(Steinbeck p.355) The people are crazy becasue they have been rejected and obsessed with revenge. This revenge just manifests to crime and more evil. After anger and revenge the ...
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