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 4:


 · Write a character analysis for Jim Casy.

 · What does Casy philosophize about religion, spirit, and sex?

 · Compare Casy's philosophy to what you know about the transcendentalists, particularly Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 · Compare Casy's philosophy to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."

Related Web Sites:

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson & the Transcendentalists



dying farm
Lange, Dorothea. “Worn-out land and abandoned cabins near Newport, Oklahoma.” 1937. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945