They talk about how the turtle attempts to cross the road, and he is nearly crushed twice by passing motorists, and is flung off the road by a motorist who tried to squash the turtle in its tracks. ... The turtle struggles to cross the street while looking in the eyes of failure from the motorists who tried to knock him off the road and the motorist who succeeded in knocking him off the road. ... (Steinbeck) We see many examples of this, and one is in chapter 15 at the truck station. ... Then we look at chapter 17 and we see the person at the car dump giv...

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They talk about how the turtle attempts to cross the road, and he is nearly crushed twice by passing motorists, and is flung off the road by a motorist who tried to squash the turtle in its tracks. ... The turtle struggles to cross the street while looking in the eyes of failure from the motorists who tried to knock him off the road and the motorist who succeeded in knocking him off the road. ... (Steinbeck) We see many examples of this, and one is in chapter 15 at the truck station. ... Then we look at chapter 17 and we see the person at the car dump giv...

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What important qualities does the land turtle have as described in Chapter 3? ... The tractors moved like insects over the roads and fields that were worked by the hands of the farmers. ... What is the function of the other short chapters (1, 3, 5, etc)? What does Chapter 7 imply about used-car salesmen? ... (Steinbeck, 22) How the turtle struggled to cross the road represents the troubles and hardships that the farmer's and their families would endure as the coming of the great migration approached. ...

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When we first meet Tom in chapter two, he is walking down the road in a cheap new suit because he was just released from prison. ... When Casy is saying grace in chapter eight, he compares himself to Jesus. ... In the last chapter, Rose of Sharon breast feeds a starving man from her milk that was meant for her baby. ...

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He was walking down a road when he meets a trucker at a roadside restaurant. Even though the trucker has a sticker to discourage hitchhikers, he gives Tom a lift to the road where his family, the Joads, lives. While walking down the road, Tom meets up with Jim Casy, the preacher that baptized him. ... While driving down the road the Joads notice some hostility towards Okies, or farmers who left Oklahoma. ...

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In the next chapters, it tells about how used-car salesmen are cheating families that are going to California. ... In this chapter, the Joad's have travelled for a day and decided to camp on the side of the road when they meet the Wilson's, whose car has broke down. ...

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The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes ...

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