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| DISCUSSION PROMPTS for Chapter 18: · What does "Okie" mean? How does the way it is said change its potency? Can you think of other labels used in comparable ways today? · Look at Ma's counsel to Rose of Sharon in this chapter. How does she link birth and death to comfort her daughter? How can you extend Ma's wisdom to other parts of the novel? Related web sites: OKIES - A brief discussion of the term from the Living History Farm website: Steinbeck's Myth of the Okies - an article by Keith Windschuttle - refuting the historical accuracy of Steinbeck's work and therefore placing the actual truth of the circumstances of the novel into doubt.:  Interview with Jose Flores discussing the attitudes of Mexican Americans
towards "Okies " and
how the land
owners played the classes off
each other.
Recorded in El Rio, California,
probably
in 1940. From The Library of Congress collection "Voices
of the Dustbowl." |
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