During the great depression, the midwest underwent a long drought. Exposed dry earth swept away with the wind and caused huge dust storms that prolonged the dry weather. With the lowered selling prices and the lack of crops the farmers had some major economic trouble. In Black Blizzard and John Steinbeck 's Grapes of Wrath, the literature develops the ideas of the poor distribution of wealth within the populations and the social aspects of people of different economic class. Social differences arise in the wealthy, the employed, and the unemployed throughout this period of hardship.
In chapter 8, pages 71-74, Tom Joad finally returns to his home after four years of imprisonment at McAlester, a state prison. Tom’s arrival causes his mother to react with happiness and surprise. Throughout the entire novel, Ma Joad is like a thread which holds the family together. She very rarely loses her composure, but her son’s arrival is one of the few occasions. In fact, “her hand sank slowly to her side and the fork clattered to the wooden floor” (Steinbeck 50), displaying her complete astonishment.
Currently her dad has a financial issue and Ashleigh has a choice between, letting her mother down by stealing her emergency money or letting her father down by not stealing the money. Ashleigh takes the money because she wants her father’s life to be set, her dad cheers on her dreams which makes her feel obligated to help, and she prefers her father over her mother. Ashleigh wants
The tone of chapter 11 in John Steinbeck's, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is sympathetic, sad and hopeless. His word choice and syntax show how the sad houses were left to decay in the weather. His use of descriptive words paints a picture in the reader's mind. As each paragraph unfolds, new details come to life and adds to the imagery. While it may seem unimportant, this intercalary chapter shows how the effects of the great depression affected common households.
First, Ashleigh took the money because her dad isn’t very wealthy and he needed the money. Her dad owes someone some money in the text it said that “you owe them two hundred dollars?” She asked her dad if he had enough money to buy them dinner. In the text it says “can you
Case Conceptualization Notes: The Solitano Family Identifying Information: The Solitano family consists of Mom, dad and Pat and brother. Mom and Dad seem to have been married for a long time. They live together in a house in Philadelphia. Pat recently left a hospital that he had been staying at for 8 months due to an ‘outburst’ he had after finding his wife in the shower with another man.
Ashleigh’s dad needs the 200 dollars of emergency money to invest in a suspicious deal to become wealthier. Ashleigh didn’t steal her mom’s emergency money because she knows her mom is correct in saying that her dad is untrustworthy; she has had many opportunities to steal the money before, but never has, and Ashleigh knows her dad is using the money for dubious purposes.
“All right I said, I reached to unlock the car door.” say the author Susan Beth Pfeffer. Ashleigh is basically saying, she will lend the money because she loves him and she feels like she has to so her dad can get back up on his feet financially. Also, she would do anything for him because he’s her dad and you would do anything for your dad too. He raised you and cares for you and loves
We all desire the warmth of feeling special and loved, especially from our parents, but at what point is our desire no longer a playful hope, and turns into a conflicting argument? Ashleigh, or Ashes as her father calls her, is the teenage protagonist in the short story, “Ashes”, by Susan Beth Pfeffer. She is stuck between wanting to believe in her dad’s love for her and knowing deep down inside herself that she is being manipulated. Her dad is the dreamer and her mom is the “level headed” one. In the story, Ashes must decide whether to “borrow” her mother’s money for her dad, finding herself in a spot where her integrity pushes her to do what is wrong.
It’s difficult to get kicked out of a land you have lived in for so long and end up having nowhere to go. In this novel, Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, shows Tom Joad’s journey with his family to a new place where they've never been. They travel from Oklahoma to California and encounter a lot of hardship. Tom Joad is the main character in the story and is portrayed in the beginning as someone who can’t control their anger. He shows development in managing his anger issues as a result of his family’s unwavering emotional support.
Ashleigh’s dad urges her to “borrow” (steal) the $200 her mother keeps hidden for emergencies so he can pay off his debt. Ashleigh will take the money because she thinks her dad will pay her back, she doesn’t want to disappoint her parent, and she believes her father is always doing the right thing. Ashes believes that her father will pay her back the money he owes her on Friday. “ ‘And I swear to you, Ashes, I’d have the money in your hands by Friday at the latest.’ ”
In the history of America, Americans have had to drastically change their livelihood several times. In the 1930s, John Steinbeck became a writer of the struggles Americans faced at the time. Steinbeck’s writing style was quite particular, detailing many aspects of the times and what people were going through. He focused on the lives of average American families and their struggle to make it through the times. The Grapes of Wrath is one of several novels he wrote to express this.
Intercalary Chapter Literary Analysis During the Great Depression, the nation as a whole was stripped of financial security and forced into a survivalist way of living. This changed the ways that people interacted with one another and the overall mentality of society. In the Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family is torn from their land and find themselves with nothing, a common story for migrant farmers of that time, derogatorily called “Okies” by Californians. But this is not the only group that is struggling, the entire county was in a state of panic and bruteness, no matter how “well off” they seemed to be.
The dad wants Ashleigh to steal $200 from her mom so the dad can pay off a deal that he made. Ashleigh didn't take the money because she wouldn’t want to take her mom's money that she worked for,the dad can get the money from somewhere else,and the dad would forgive Ashleigh easier than the mom. Ashleigh wouldn’t take her mom's money that she worked for. One reason is her dad doesn’t work,her mom does all the work[b].In the text it says “ i’m a dreamer….. He’s an irresponsible bum…..
In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the chapters alternate between two perspectives of a story. One chapter focuses on the tenants as a whole, while the other chapter focuses specifically of a family of tenants, the Joads, and their journey to California. Chapter 5 is the former and Steinbeck does an excellent job of omniscient third person point of view to describe the situation. Chapter 5’s main idea is to set the conflict and let the readers make connections between Steinbeck’s alternating chapters with foreshadowing. Steinbeck is effectual in letting readers make connections both to the world and the text itself with the use of exposition, and symbolism.
