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 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.
cotton strikers
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, 1935-1945