John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克.pptVIP

Analysis of his masterpiece, “The Grapes of Wrath” 1. Source of the title 2. Introduction of the story 3. Major characters 4. Purpose of the novel 5. Biblical structure Ma Joad——matriarch, practical , warm-spirited, “the citadel of the family.” The mother of the Joad family. She is the healer of the family’s ills and the arbiter of its arguments, and her ability to perform these tasks grows as the novel progresses. Pa Joad——patriarch, hardworking sharecropper and family man Ma Joad’s husband and Tom’s father. A plainspoken, good-hearted man, Pa directs the effort to take the family to California, though he sometimes feels ashamed of his weaker position. Jim Casy——radical philosopher, a motivator and unifier of men, and a martyr A former preacher who gave up his ministry out of a belief that all human experience is holy. Casy goes to prison in Tom’s stead for a fight that erupts between laborers and the California police. He emerges a determined organizer of the migrant workers. Rose of Sharon——from a “hoyden”—a high-spirited and saucy girl—into a secretive and mysterious woman Childish and dreamy teenage daughter who develops as the novel progresses to become a mature woman. She symbolizes regrowth when she helps the starving stranger . Road We think its interesting to note that Route 66 never really intersects with any other major highway or road – it goes in two directions only. When you are on Route 66, you can either go forward in search of opportunity, or you can go backwards and return to the poverty you came from. Bugs In The Grapes of Wrath, we notice that how easy it is for humans to kill insects, and theres a violence to the way, for instance, Tom crushes the grasshopper. We begin to see similarities between the way humans treat insects and the way landowners treat tenant farmers. Turtle This stubborn and determined turtle-a Joad pet, reminds us of the stubborn and determined ways of the Joad family and other migra