DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 26:
· Discuss the metaphorical
implications of Ma's "stick": "I
got a stick all laid out too." Take
into account what you know about the structure
of the family and typical representations
of the stick.
· Discuss the parallels to Plato's "Allegory
of the Cave" surrounding the capture
and death of Jim Casy.
· Discuss the parallels between Casy's death
and the death of Christ.
Related web sites:
Happy Hooligan
A comic character from the early days of
newspaper funny pages.
J. P Morgan
The Columbia online Encyclopedia has a brief
biography of the entire Morgan family.
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| Lange, Dorothea. “Striking cotton pickers
talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern
County, California. `I don't care: Let
them throw me in jail. There's somebody will
take my place.'” 1938. America from the Great
Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL,
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