Hello Honors students-
I hope by now you are reading Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. You may be wondering about the so-called ancillary chapters such as the one about the turtle crossing the road. What are your ideas about these chapters? Please comment on this as a way of starting our discussion of the book
Let's use this blog as a means of ramping up our understanding of the book. Please post comments as well as questions about any aspect of the book. If you are finished with the book now, please do NOT give the ending away.
See you soon.
Ms. C
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After reading through chapter 6, I think that the turtle is sort of a form of personification; it's like the land there is so bad that even the turtles, the wildlife, are heading west to a new life and new land. It's the opposite of the people there... Tom says that he always sees turtles heading somewhere...and the 'tenants' just want to stay where they are. Maybe the turtle symbolizes what the people in the Dust Bowl need to do in order to survive?
My opinion on Chapter 3 is that the turtle is foreshadowing a trip the Joads have to make. Saying the Joads will have to persevere in order to get to where they want to go, like the turtle. And the cars that pass by symbolize the obstacles that they will have to face.
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