THE GRAPES OF WRATH
What's New? For Teachers For Students Steinbeck and the book The Play
Study guide for a collaborative project
of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and
the University of Alabama at Birmingham
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DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 3:


 · The opening paragraph of this chapter contains a powerful metaphor in the seed. Deconstruct this metaphor, and explore its implications.

 · Analyze the turtle's progress and setbacks. What, in addition to Tom Joad, might the turtle represent? Explain.

 · Compare the turtle to Tom Joad.

 · See more about the Eastern Box Turtle, a species which ranges from Maine to Florida, and from the Atlantic Coast to Oklahoma.


Eastern Box Turtle




farmhouse
Lange, Dorothea “Abandoned house of small farmer. Southwest Oklahoma.” 1937. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945