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. |
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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
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