Battle of Matewan, Labor Unrest by Kyle and Noah

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Prohibition and its Repeal by Kori and Mercedes

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March of Dimes by Devon and Rhonda

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          I found chapter thirteen very interesting. They find a dead dog on the road. Their grandfather ends up dying as well.  They are not allowed to bury him for it is against the law. But, they end up doing it anyways with having the family and the preacher their. It is so depressing to read that they couldn't even bury him, let alone a proper funeral. It shows that without money you couldn't do anything. It is not only affecting the people but also the animals. As they are just running around everywhere, probably starving. Nobody can take care of them as people are trying to feed themselves.
       People are rushing from one place to another, running after money.The fat man talks about how people are going somewhere and they all got somewhere to go.My favorite passage is " I don' know what the country's comin' to," the fat man continued. His complaint had shifted now and he was no longer talking to or about the Joads. "Fifty-six cars a folks go by ever; day, folks all movin; west with kids an' househo' stuff. Where they goin'? what they gonna do?". I think the theme would be the country if falling apart without the money, that they are going to be end up like grandpa and the dog.
   

                                                                                            

Chapter 14 had an impact on me...

Chapter 14, to me, was very powerful in the sense that these folks figured out what they were up against - like they knew that the "monster" was out to divide and conquer them. They knew that by coming together through these perilous times, that it gave them some power. It may not have been much, but it was enough to make them realize that although they were divided from their land, they do not have to be divided from each other in community. I highlighted the passage:

"This is the beginning - from "I" to "we." If you who own things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes form results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.""

This is the true meaning of revolution; when two or more people can come together in the midst of the very thing set out to tear them apart and dehumanize them. The events that lead up to the Great Depression, and the depression itself marked a new era in the banking and financial world. It is unspoken that it was also a start of a new era when people lost their sense of community and focused more on themselves, regardless of the welfare of others. The illustration of The Joads and the Wilsons; two families who never knew each other who crossed paths at their lowest points - when it is said that people cannot trust each other- is a prime example of the genuine form of revolution that I have expressed here in this post. 


 

Chapter 14

I found that chapter 14 was most important because it focus' on change, and that the unfamiliar is almost always scary even more so when your doing it because you have no other choice, which was the case for many farmers driven out off their land and forced to relocate themselves and their families somewhere else. I found this important because we can all relate to unfamiliarity being scary, and causing hesitance, and how i can eventaully bring us together. " This is the beginning-from "I" to "we"". Though the unfimiliar is scary, bein

The Grapes of Wrath

The chapter I thought most important was 13. It expands on how hard the times were for more then just the farmers. At a gas station Al gets into an altercation with the attendant. The attendant assumes they don't have the money, this is because most of the visitors he has are people begging trying to make it out west. He goes on to explain how the customers with money go to the fancier gas stations. This shows not only farmers have run into trouble. Nobody had money to spend in the depression, this led to the down fall of many other markets. Their dog gets hit at the gas station adding more disgust to the family then soon after their Grandpa passes as well. They didn't have the money for a funeral so they did a small illegal burial. This shows the tragedy of the depression in a more physical way. Compounded with a lack of money, the death of their loved one only makes it harder. The author seems to keep kicking the characters down in this chapter.