BY: KELSEY BROWN, CASSIE DEMATTEIS, OLIVIA HENRY, KAYLA YOUNG

Art and In-depth Analysis of Selected Intercalary Chapters in “Grapes of Wrath”

Chapter 1: Drought and dust storm

Chapter 1 Quotes

“The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country.”

“The air was thin and the sky was more pale; and every day the earth paled.”

“Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air; a dust as high as the fence tops, and an automobile boiled a cloud behind it. The dust was long in settling back again.”

“Little by little the sky was darkened by the mixing dust, and the wind felt over the earth, loosened the dust, and carried it away. The wind grew stronger.”

“Men and women huddled in their houses, and they tied handkerchief over their noses when they went out, and wore goggles to protect their eyes.”

Chapter 5: Families evicted from property by owners

Chapter 5 Quotes

In Intercalary chapter 5, Lange compares the bank and companies to a monster.

“A bank or company can’t do that, because those creatures breathe air, don’t eat side meat. They breathe profits, they eat the interest on money”

“Sure, cried the tenant man, but its our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, we got killed on it, died on it. Even if its no good, its still ours.”

“We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn't like a man. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they cant control it.”

Chapter 11: Vacant Houses

Chapter 11 Quotes

"So easy, that the wonder goes out of the work, so efficient that the wonder goes out of the land and the working of it, and with the wonder the deep understanding and the relation.” pg. 147

"That man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving the dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry.” pg. 148

"The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart.” pg. 149

Chapter 12: Highway 66

Chapter 12 Quotes

"66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there.” pg. 150

"Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else...You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.”, pg. 154

"re-fire the faith forever.” pg. 155

Chapter 14: Change; eviction; struggles of migrants

Chapter 14 Quotes

“We lost our land. The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one.”

“One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car creaking along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a single tractor took my land. I am alone and bewildered.”

Chapter 23: Amusement and

Pleasure for Migrants

Chapter 23

Quotes related to the picture:“The migrant people, scuttling for work,

scrabbling to live, looked always or pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement. Sometimes amusement lay in speech, and they climbed up their lives with jokes.” p. 325

“The square closes up and the dancing starts, feet on the bare ground, beating dull, strike with your heals, Hands ‘round and swing. Hair falls down, and panting breaths.” p. 327

Chapter 27: Picking

Cotton

Chapter 27

Quotes related to the photos:“Hunch along now, fill up the bag ‘fore dark.

Wise fingers seeking in the bolls. Hips hunching along, dragging the bag. Kids are tired, now in the evening. They trip over their feet in the cultivated earth.” p. 408

“They say a thousan’ men are on their way to this field. We’ll be fightin’ for a row tomorra. We’ll be snatchin’ cotton quick.” p. 408

Chapter 29: Rain storms and related struggles

Chapter 29 Quotes

“The rain began with gusty showers, pauses and downpours; and then gradually it settled to a single tempo, small drops and a steady beat, rain that was gray to see through, rain that cut midday light.”

“When the rain started, the migrant people huddled their tents, saying, It’ll soon be over, and asking, How long’s it likely to go on?”

“No work till spring. No work.”