Chapter 19-21

Chapter 19: Grandma is now dead, Ma is in a whole lot of pain but she tries not to show it. The family is at the very top of the road to California. As their still traveling to the town, they meet up with all these farmers that keep complaining about not having food for their families especially their children.
Chapter 20: A couple different people have died; the priest, and Al but the family still goes along hoping to make it to California without anymore dreadful stops. They find a car dealership where they buy a Model T which will hopefully help them out on the rest of their journey.
Chapter 21: There are still problems where people are loosing their lands, the feeding of the children, and all that other stuff they've talked about in previous chapters. Their has been a fight over what some people are getting paid, this all goes back to the children and what their families want them to have, and what they need to survive this tragic time. Some workers were getting paid fifteen cents, while others were getting paid twenty-five cents.

Chapters 13-17

Chapter 13: While the family still has quite a long way to go, the run into a couple of big problems. Ma still has a couple of different fears about California she keeps telling herself that everything is going to work out. They stop at a gas station where Al gets into an argument with the guy who is running the store, when the guy accuses the family of not having enough money to pay for their gas. Before the family decided to move on, they pulled off onto the side of the road for a break, and while they were relaxing the dog got hit by a car and died. The very last thing the family did before taking off was burring Grandfather into an unmarked grave.
Chapter 14: A lot of towns from all over Oklahoma City were so frightened about what was going to happen to them, that they couldn't even remember why they had to leave. For weeks roads were covered with families, farmers getting together, and just people from out of no where.
Chapter 15: On route 66, there was a waitress named Mae and a cook named Al who hardly ever get any business because of where they are located. There would be days where the store was loaded with truck drivers, and on one particular day two truck drivers came in. Mae offered the two men a loaf of bread for a dime and one of the guys said something sarcastically so Mae brushes them off. Somewhere in the story a conversation pops out that Mae told the truck drivers that the farmers were turning into thieves. Towards the end the truck drivers are extra generous and leave Mae with an extra long tip.
Chapter 16: The family has now been traveling for two solid days, so finally on the third day they find a spot that is almost like a home. Rose and Sharon start deciding that they are going to live in town once they get to California, the kids all start dreaming about what they are going to do in California. That's when Pa gets upset but shows it with anger. He keeps telling everyone that there are no good jobs in California. Then stated that there were farmers there who did need a couple of extra hands to run their farms.
Chapter 17: All the families who have met one another, decide to turn into one big family. In all the small communities families still tagged along.

Chapters 9-12

Chapter 9: The writer talks about what the family has to do in order to get to California. On the way the family runs into a whole bunch of farmers who are trying to sell the belongings, because the farmers need the money to pay the bank so that they wouldn't get their homes taken away. Another reason why the farmers are neither trying to sell or give away, is because their trying to raise money to go away for a little while.
Chapter 10: The family is still have a little bit of difficulty getting to their new home. Ma is worried, she doesn't know if life is going to be better there, or if their just going to run into the exact same problems. Pa and Joad set off downtown to sell some of the families belongings just to make sure that they don't run out of money. During a meeting the family decides that Casey should tag along with the family just incased something were to happen to her.
Chapter 11: Before the farmers take off they give Pa and Joad very few tips on how to run a farm. Neither one of the guys could figure anything out, but they new that this would be the only way for them to move on. So they tried to understand it as well as they could. Towards the end once all the farmers and everyone leaves, the farmhouse is turned into a big shelter when all the farm animals come running in, to if there was a hurricane.
Chapter 12: While ever farmer was trying to leave town, the dealership was not being one bit helpful at all. The dealership new exactly what they were doing, they were trying to sell their bad cars for way over the price that they didn't even buy them for.

Chapter 7-8

Chapter 7 They had to sell their house to buy a vechicle so that they could leave right away. When the family got to the car dealership, the family really didn't have much chose they just had to buy whatever car they could afford. Once the car was bought they headed off.
Chapter 8 Tom is reunited with more family members at breakfast. Granpa and Granma were excited to see Tom. Behind them is Noah, the eldest son, who is quiet and slow. At Granma's insistence, Casy says grace over the meal, although he explains he is no longer a preacher. In his prayer, he says that holiness is when all people are working together, not focused on their individual desires. Tom asks after the rest of the family members and learns that his younger brother, Al, is out chasing girls, and Rose of Sharon, his younger sister, is now married to a neighboring boy, Connie Rivers. She is in the early stages of her first pregnancy. The two youngest Joads, 10-year-old Winfield and 12-year-old Ruthie, have gone to Sallisaw with Uncle John to sell a load of household belongings. Once everything has been sold, they will have about $150 for the trip. Within a day or two, the family plans to leave for the west.

Vocabulary 4/13/10

Monica
English
4/6/10
1) Pique- verb to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, esp. by some wound to pride. Amanda felt Pique when she finally passed the high school qualiffing exam after the third time.

2) Imperturbability- adjective incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure. Amanda was always imperturbability all the years she wasn’t able to pass the high school qualifing exam.

3) Rivulet- noun a small stream; streamlet; brook. Amanda loved going to her grandmother’s because her grandma had a rivulet that Amanda could always go and swim in.

4) Germinate- verb to develop into a plant or individual, as a seed, spore, or bulb. Amanda took a seed and germinated it into a beautiful willow tree.

5) Zenith- noun the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer. Compare nadir. Amanda discovered a zenith which she used as a protector whenever she went hiking.

6) Scuttle- noun a deep bucket for carrying coal. Amanda had to use a Scuttle whenever she redid the fire.

7) Declivity- noun a downward slope, as of ground. Amanda would always go down a declivity whenever she went sledding.

8) Bemuse- verb to bewilder or confuse (someone). Amanda would always bemuse her friend Ashley, whenever Ashley would ask for help.

9) Petulant- adjective moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head. Amanda would always show petulant whenever it was her day to work at daycare.

10) Dissipate- verb to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel. Amanda would always be dissipate after school.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 They went up to the farm house and looked around. After finding one of Tom's grandma's shoes he thought his grandma was still there but she wasn't. The two guys decided to stay in the house over night. Tom's grandma took a ax and a chicken and she started to attack a guy with the chicken when she was meaning to attack him with the ax. Tom meets up with his old friend Mulley and then all three of the men become friends. They caught a rabbit for dinner and ate it.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5. People are losing their lands because they don't have enough money to pay for them so the bank or what they call "the monster" is kicking people out of their homes. Once the people are gone the bank takes big bull dowers and tear down the people's homes. To show other people that the bank owns the land is they have papers to proof it and fire back at the real land owners. The farmers are still calling it their land because they were born on it, they worked on it, and they have had a lot of family who came before them die on it. The banks are just acting like a big giant monster who thinks he can do or take over anything. It would be like if the President wasn't working on trying to get better health care plains for our elderly, everybody in the whole wide world would be flat broke because are doctor offices don't care how much money their sucking out of us. In this story is the exact same thing the bank or monster is doing to those poor farmers who don't have enough money as it is.

Chapter 3 A turtle who is trying to cross the road almost gets hit by two cars. Of course as everybody know turtles are very slow because of that large shell on their back. Unknown how old this turtle is, a turtle can live an extremely long time.


Chapter 4 Jim has been a preacher for a very long time, put he does not have any beliefs in either God or Jesus. He absolutely loves people but some people who he loves he does wrong with them. Girls for example he likes to take out into a field and sleep with them. Tom Joad is a farmers son who has gotten out of prison, after killing a man while he was drunk. Tom had adopted the turtle and started treating him like he was a part of his family. I am having a feeling that Tom and the preacher are going to become friends.

The Grapes of Wrath

CHAPTER 1 In the town of Oklahoma there are these big dust storms that can just come out of no where, so the people have to be on the guards all the time. The people had weeds growing over their windows for protection. Whenever the wind storms came the people just had to pray and make sure it would go away with no one being hurt or lost.

CHAPTER 2 At a small diner there was a maid and a truck driver, the truck driver was on his way to deliver something and then a guy named Joad came along. Joad was pretty much an alcoholic who is a homeless looking for some transportation.

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