Chapters 1-10 (E)
"Banks breathe profits; they eat interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." (Chapter 5)
The banks are not human but they are described like carnivores that cannot survive without eating meat (profit). How this contributes to the text is the banks kick out the tenant farmers which makes them move to places such as California. Like other families, the Joads were kicked out of their home and forced to move.
"You know what cotton does to the land; robs it, sucks all the blood out of it." (Chapter 5)
Cotton cannot suck blood from land but it can suck the nutrients from the soil. This makes the other plants on the field difficult to grow because they have no nutrients so the farmers cannot make profit. This may force them to relocate to an area where the land is rich so they can make money and grow better produce.
"In the middle of the night the wind passed on and left the land quiet. The dust-filled air muffled sound more completely than fog does." (Chapter 1).
This is saying the dust storms are more effective than the fog and the wind.. The dust storms are another factor to why people in the dust bowl move out because it ruined their crops resulting in unemployment. With the plants and crops are covered with dust, many families decided to move away from the dust and head west.
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Great visual!
ReplyDeleteWould like some discussion of personification overall - why does Steinbeck use it so frequently?