The Grapes of Wrath AO5
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- Created on: 20-02-20 16:15
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- The Grapes of Wrath AO5
- Spangles
- 'Steinbeck has smashed the notions of the American Dream'
- Malcom Bradbury
- 'the dream of an innocent pastoral America created by man's desire for wonder
- Steinbeck
- On the migrant crisis
- 'Dignity is all gone, and spirit has turned to sullen anger before it dies'
- 'rip a reader's nerves to rags'
- 'hit the reader below the belt'
- 'Dignity is all gone, and spirit has turned to sullen anger before it dies'
- 'I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this'
- On the migrant crisis
- Alan Yuhas
- 'Steinbeck was unapologetic about certain socialist views'
- Steinbeck observed that 'cruelty comes from fear and siappointment'
- 'The Grapes of Wrath is simply a parable of disillusionment and survival set in the American west'
- 'people were always better than the hardships they suffered'
- 'he wanted us to get angry at those who would ***** hope from us'
- Robert McCrum
- GoW 'is a novel with blood on its teeth'
- 'the book was written in a white heat'
- 'it is the women who are strong'
- Fitzgerald
- Called Steinbeck a 'rather cagey cribber'
- 'Cribber' - a habit of biting - he was too pushy in his politics
- Called Steinbeck a 'rather cagey cribber'
- Peter Monro Jack
- GoW is 'pitiful and angry'
- On the Californians hostility towards migrant farmers
- 'This part of the story reads like news from Nazi Germany'
- 'The promised grapes of California have turned into grapes of wrath'
- BBc: John Steinbeck 'Voice of America'
- 'catastrophe of biblical proportions'
- 'biblical exodus'
- Steinbeck wanted to be a 'recording consciousness'
- Dorothea Lange's photography
- 'Migrant Mother' photo
- lack of hope, shame and dignity
- 'Migrant Mother' photo
- Harold Bloom
- 'Rosasharon shares the milk of human kindness'
- Rosasharon was a 'modern Madonna'
- 'Jim Casy is secular Jesus Christ'
- 'Tom Joad is a king of St Paul of social rebellion'
- 'The endurance of Ma Joad and Rose of Sharon is one of the ornaments of The Grapes of Wrath'
- The women have 'indestructible endurance that rises up from the wisdom of an ultimate skepticism'
- 'Rosasharon shares the milk of human kindness'
- Alfred Kazin
- 'The most influential social novel of the period'
- Susan Shillingshaw
- 'Anger is not Tom's story nor Casy's story nor is it Steinbeck's final response to a system that starves children'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- TGoW is 'unforgettable'
- 'The book is coarse but life is coarse in spots'
- 'The novel was never exaggerated, if anything the novelist had underestimated the violation of human rights'
- Borden
- 'the book is a black infernal creation of a twisted distorted mind'
- Spangles
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