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This your forum for discussion. Although I will toss in questions, I will expect you to be the main contributors to the blog. You are expected to post and comment at least twice (1x each) every time we are in the lab as a class. Naturally, you are required to keep comments germane to the novel and to treat your classmates' opinions with respect. Have fun.
Grapes...
Grapevines
- Rage-The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Save this link--it will be part of a writing prom
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Comic - Steinback stuck on the Title Page
- Migrant Labor Camp Photographs
- Big Rock
- "Dusty Old Dust"
- Guthrie lyrics
- Dust Bowl Refugee
- Dust Bowl Era Footage
- Songs to Lighten the Mood
- Blowing Down The Dusty Old Road
- Al Capone's Photo Gallery
- children + depression = sadness!
- Kelsey's Photos
- Vanessa's link
- Running from the Dust
- Pictures From the Dust Bowl Era by Dorthea Lange
- Helpful Guide to Book
- Dorothea Lange pictures
- A Depression Art Gallery
- Dust Bowl Slide Show o.O
- Depression Photo Essay
- A site about Woody Guthrie
- Dust Storm Disaster Lyrics
- Dust Can't Kill Me
- Dust Bowl Migration
- #4
- Everything you need to know and more
- #2
- Excerpts from "The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression"
- dustbowl pics
- "Tom Joad" by Woody Guthrie
- Pictures From the Dust Bowl Taken by Dorthea Lange
- Actual Dust Storm Footage From The Dustbowl Era
Assignments and Reading
- Done by Friday
- Chapter 28 by May 2
- Final Projects due May 21
- Gaia or Gaea. Look them up. Think about it.
- Through chapter 25 by April 30
- Through 22 by Friday, April 27
- While you are on the computer today, look up myth of Antaeus.
- Through 21 by April 25
- Through 19 by April 23
- Add a link
- Through chapter 13 by Monday, April 17
- Chapters 6-8 for April 9
8 comments:
Oh Al...you make me laugh.
But I understand your question.
As far as symbolism goes, I think it's more or less just a representation of how people make choices they regret and hate.
LOL it's a mix of the two! Someone in another portion of the blog mentioned that their whole conversation had to do with human sin and that it's unavoidable. Even preachers sin. That's the whole symbolic part. But Steinbeck didn't have say it over and over again. Perv lol!
It's another part where the repetitiveness is a bit over-redundant. Yes, we get it, there's corruption in religion (or at least with this man). You don't have to beat us over the head with it.
Well, I think that the author just wanted to talk about sex... I am totally kidding. I think that i brings up a life lesson of adultery and the reason why some people decide to go down that path and the consequences of it all.
It is pretty creepy, although the two men don't really go into that much detail about it. Sometimes adult books might go that direction. I think that it is just a representation of humanity, but beyond that, I don't think that there is much symbolism there.
Ok, as I read, I've discovered that the author talks about sex ALL THE TIME. Every chance he gets, that's what he talks about. I think he's just a dirty perv. Even if it is some symbol for human sin, could he not pick another sin to talk about!?!
I think that Steinbeck was just trying to give Tom Joad's character some realness since he just got out of prison after four years and that was the subject on his mind. He talked to the preacher about the subject to prove to the reader that the preacher was corrupt and no longer a true preacher.
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