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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Dialouge
Why does Steinbeck go back and forth between dialogue without quotations and no names of people talking and real conversations. For example, in chapter 15, on page 210 Mae is having a conversation with two truck drivers, but there are no actual quotes. Later in the chapter, Mae talks to a poor family, and there are quotations and everything. I'm sure there's a reason, but what is the difference between the truck driver and the poor man?
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I know the title is spelled wrong. I did that on purpose/
yea, i don't really know. Steinbeck does that a lot, switching between no quotations to having quotations. i really don't get it...it's annoying.
I think that maybe he did that because he feels more sympathy towards the poor man because he is better able to relate to the situations. The truck drivers could be a symbol of the tractor drivers and what they did to their land. I really don't know though. It is just a guess.
i think that he switches back and forth between quotations becuase he is switching point of view
he usually doesn't use quotations at all in the odd chapters, the ones that aren't about the joads but kind of just show little snippets of life for the masses at the time, so maybe he didn't use them b/c the truck driver's situation was very common...i don't know.
yeah, whatever, fool killer. even if i believed that you meant to misspell dialogue, which i don't see the purpose of, you were still double posting...
Dream Crusher, look at page 215-220. There are tons of quotes! And it's in chapter 15, which is an odd number...OWNED!
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