In Chapter 18, what sin' does Uncle John have on his conscience? What does Jim Casy say about it?.
2.In Chapter 19, what sin' does Steinbeck bring up?.
3.How are these sins' similar? Different? How do the differences reflect a change from Christian to Communist morals?.
1. Uncle John's wife, one night, got a pain in her stomach. She told Uncle John to get a doctor but he refused. And so his wife groaned all night and died the next morning. Uncle John thought that was his fault. He felt like he had just killed and murdered his wife and broke the laws of God that he believed, and this turned out to be a sin to him from God. .
2. In chapter 19, Steinbeck stated hat to a homeless hungry man and his family, a fallow field is a sin and unused land is a crime against the thin children. The reason is because a field normally should be use to grow and produce food. And if you are not doing that and not the field using the field, you are wasting the land and also holding back the food, the chance to make hungry people, children survive.
3. The different between both sins is very clear. Uncle John's sin was because he bought that he killed his wife and it against God's law and will. But the death of his wife was just a mistake, not really a sin, the mistake became a sin of him because he believe in God. The sin that Steinbeck brought up was described as the wasting of land became a sin because it was against normal nature, just like wasting of food, it was unreasonable to do it since all humans were fed on food for survive. And this idea totally different to Uncle John's sin idea because it didn't include any idea, believe of God, it just a normal observation and situation.
