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 21:


 ·  How bad is the situation in California? How do the details provided here justify the war imagery used previously?

 ·  It is in this chapter that you find a veiled reference to the title of the novel. Discuss its ominous usage here and the threat implied therein.
migrant workers
Lange, Dorothea. “Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cents a day. Muscella, Georgia.” 1936. America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945