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 10:


 ·  Examine Rose of Sharon's role as a fertility image. How does she exemplify that symbol?

 ·  Draw a diagram of the "family congress" as it meets in this chapter. Analyze the significance of each person's placement in the meeting.

 ·  What is the "new hearth" of the Joad home? What is the significance of its transference?

Related Web Sites:

Slaughtering and Butchering - An article from Backwood Magazine's online web site. Note, this a slightly more practical and graphic article on slaughtering and butchering pigs, goats and cows. Thankfully, it is sparse on photographs, but strong in detail. For those students who are interested in where their pork products come from.

feeding pigs
Rothstein, Arthur. “Howard Crowder feeds a litter of pigs raised on his homestead at San Luis Valley Farms, Alamosa, Colorado.’ 1939. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945