DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 20:
· A term used to describe
the way the California landowners hire and
pay laborers is "California mathematics".
Explain the numbers game they're using to
reap the most profit possible. How, ultimately,
do these numbers end up sacrificing human
life?
· Jim Casy can be interpreted as a Christ figure.
JC makes a sacrifice in this chapter that
bears out this symbolism. Explore this idea
by discussing various ways JC parallels Christ.
Include material from earlier chapters where
the reader first gets to know him.
Some related images:
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Lange, Dorothea. “Hooverville of Bakersfield,
California.” 1936. America from the Great
Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL,
1935-1945
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