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  • Character Ma Joad In The Novel
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    Ma Joad is one of the main characters in John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath. Ma is a strong, wife and mother who is the leader of the family. She does anything to keep the family together. In Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck uses two literary techniques, direct description and portrayal of characters behavior, to create the character, Ma Joad. With the use of the literary technique, direct description, Steinbeck describes Ma's physical appearance. He describes her as, "heavy, but not fast; thick w...
  • Ma Joad
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    Literary Paper of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck Steinbeck wrote many wonderful books but a great classic is one titled The Grapes of Wrath. This is a story of a family called the Joads, and a tale of a courageous family who sought security and family unity. In my paper I will examine the different ways the Joads tried to keep united whether just within their immediate family or eventually with all the others who shared the same struggles and sufferings. Steinbeck's dialogue and description's ...
  • Tom Joad
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    Released from an Oklahoma state prison after serving four years of a manslaughter conviction, Tom Joad makes his way back to his family's farm amid the desolation of the Dust Bowl. He meets Jim Casy, a former preacher who gave up his calling out of a belief that all life is holy, and that simply being among the people as an equal is a sacred endeavor. Jim accompanies Tom to his home; when they find it deserted, fronted by withered crops, they travel to Tom's Uncle John's house, where they find t...
  • Pa Joad
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    'The Grapes of Wrath: In Times of Despair'; If one was to examine the three characters, Tom, Ma, and Pa Joad from John Steinback's The Grapes of Wrath. How would we figure out what astrological signs they were born under, as taken from their actions and attitudes in the novel? What certain qualities do they possess, that make them fit there Zodiac sign? Tom Joad, a hard stubborn man, who has served time in prison for murder. He has come back home to find his family falling apart. At the head the...
  • Chapter Thirteen As The Joad Family
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    One would say that on a literal level The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is about the Joad family's journey to California during The Dust Bowl. However, it is also about the unity of a family and the concept of birth and death, both literal and abstract. Along with this, the idea of a family unit is explored through these births and deaths. As can be seen in The Grapes of Wrath, the Joads are a very tight-knit family. Yet on their trip to California, they experience many losses and additions ...
  • Ma Joad Wife
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    Tom Joad - The novel's main protagonist, one of and sons. Tom killed a man in self-defense and served four years in the McAlester State Penitentiary. As the novel begins, Tom has just been released and returns to the Joad farm largely unaware of the Dust Bowl tragedy unfolding around him. As the novel progresses, thanks in part to the influence of, Tom will emerge as a man of great moral integrity, and he will devote himself to helping his fellow migrant workers organize. Ma Joad - wife, the mot...
  • Struggles Of The Joad Family
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    As described in Hugh Holman's A Handbook to Literature, naturalism is portrayed as man's "endless and brutal struggle for survival" (337-339). Nunn ally Johnson and John Ford's movie The Grapes of Wrath portrays this same "animal nature of man", but also adds to the definition by showing the instinctive nature for people to live rather than die. The struggle of the Joad family through plot shows the animal instinct of man to adapt to continual change during hard times for an individual's surviva...
  • Ma Joad
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    In every family configuration, whether the family consists of a husband and a wife or a family with 9 children, there is a member in that structure that the family could not survive without. The human body depends on the backbone to hold it up, as does any functional family. The backbone in the family, albeit a mom, dad, or child, keeps the family together through trials and tribulations. They often put their family's needs before their own. John Steinbeck's Ma Joad, a chubby house wife whose ey...

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