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 6:


 ·  Write a character analysis for Muley Graves. Consider the potential for meaning through his name symbolism.

 ·  Describe Casy's epiphany. What is his newfound purpose?

 ·  Research "Plato's Allegory of the Cave." Where do you see elements of that philosophy in the men's sleeping arrangements at the end of Chapter 6?

Related web sites:

Plato's Allegory of the Cave explained in brief with illustration.

How to skin and field dress a rabbit
For those of you carnivores who would like to be able to prepare wild game.
what's left of the farm
Lange, Dorothea. “Drought-abandoned house on the edge of the Great Plains near Hollis, Oklahoma.” 1938. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945