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
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17
18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30
DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 30:


 ·  Create a parallel between the work of the men and the work of the women in this chapter as each group "labors" to bring forth something.

 ·  The final scene of the novel, where Rose of Sharon saves the dying man's life, offers the most visible construction of Ma Joad's counsel in Chapter 18. Explore the connections between these two scenes. How is this an apt metaphor for the entire novel?

clouds