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 16:


 ·  Discuss Ma's "revolt" in this chapter. For what does she fight? How does her revolution further expand the previous revolutionary references in the novel?

 ·  How does the one-eyed man epitomize the isolated "I" perspective, versus the novel's dominant "We" message?

 ·  How does the microcosm of the campground owner parallel the macrocosm of ownership elsewhere in the novel?

Related images:

Dodge Trucks from 1918 - 1928





Motor Camp at Mt. Pleasant
America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945