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 5:


 ·  Contrast the physical characteristics of the owner and the farmers. What does Steinbeck communicate about each through these details?

 ·  What makes ownership?

 ·  Analyze the rape imagery in this chapter. How is that an appropriate metaphor for the farmers' experience?

Related web sites:

Bank Foreclosures - From the "Living History Farm" website, Hear a firsthand account of a farm being foreclosed. Also contains links and topics relating to other aspects of the 1930's farmer in the Great Depression.
after the dust storm
Lee, Russell. “Tractor plowing near abandoned and wrecked tenant house, Wagoner County, Oklahoma.’ 1939. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945