assignment A ch 17

                        The Rules of the Camping Society

1) The right of privacy in the tent

2) The right to keep the past black hidden in their heart

3) The right to talk and listen

4) The right to refuse help or accept it

 5) The right to offer help or decline it

6) The right of son to court or daughter to be courted

7) The right of hungry to be fed

8) The right of the pregnant and sick to transcend all other rights

9) The right to intrude upon privacy

10) The right of adultery, theft and murder

11) The right of seduction or rape





In these camping societies, the people there have to learn how to share because of how low on supplies of food and other necessities. Everyone has to get along and even though the rules aren't said, there are specific rules that are needed to follow. One rule would be 'The right of privacy in the tent.' Since there are a lot of people in these camps, you have to respect others privacy when needed. For them to either to change or just wanting alone time to themselves. Respect their privacy and knock before you enter. Another rule would be 'the right of hungry to be fed. As i said before, there are many people in the camps, so they have a right to eat something if they were staring to death. These camping societies are a community, so they have to help each other out, but at the same tim, respecting their wishes of whatever they need or want at the moment.

Assignment H ch 12

Faith is all the farmers have in this section, that and the clothes on their back. It leads back to self reliance because the faith that these people have are in themselves, having faith to want to keep going. Steinbeck's message about faith here is that you should have faith in yourself to want to be motivated in keep going. Believing in yourself. Don't rely on others, but on your faith. Even though it's the only thing they can rely on besides the people with them. But he wants you to not depend on those people, rather than yourself. Some of the farmers don't have faith, but regained their faith from when they saw the opportunity to going to California for something bigger and better. On page 122, faith is shown when the farmers cars break down on highway 66, and have to go and get a new tire. But the people who sell them, raised the prices the more desperate the farmers became. But the farmers had faith, and waited on the side till a nice truck driver came and picked them up and feed them and gave them a ride.

Assignment D ch 7

Ch 7 is all about cars and how the sales men bargin to sell their cars. When they get new cars, they automatically sell them. They don't wait for something better to come up. They take advantage of the situation and usually bargin with their customers. www.web.bryant.edu/ 

Assignment G Ch 1-10

G) "The bank--the monster has to have profits all the time. I can't wait. It'll die. No, the taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size." 32

The banks have more interest in the money that the farmers make instead of the interest of having the people there. They would rather just get rid of people who can't make profits and find someone who can. All they care about is the money. This quote is saying how if the farmers can't make crops, they won't have money. And if they don't have money, the bankers won't make any profits from their land. This is a conflict in the novel because their are lots of people who want land to grow crops in order to make some money. But sometimes the year they try to make crops won't be a good year, then they won't have money.

"No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses. (36)

The farmers need to have some emotion towards the land. Have some love or passion wilhile farming. Have faith that their crops will grow that year. The men is tractors to make their crops. Machines. Not hand made. But when their crops go wrong that year, they have nothing to eat. So they eat someone else's crops. 

Assignment I ch 1-10

I) CH 1-10

 The biblical connections through the book and from what I know is different. From the book, it talks about how the Holy Spirit is the human spirit. Men and women are the spirit. From what I know is that our spirit is God. Believing in god. The significance of the the connections is that before in the 1930s, believing for the Holy Spirit is yourself. Now a days, you believe in god. God will always be there for you. We can understand from these connections of how it's different from what you believe in from now and in the 1930s. Jesus is your savior instead of man and woman.

Assignment F ch 1-10

"But Pa never did write no letters. He always says what he couldn't tell a fella with his mouth wasn't worth learnin' on no pencil about." (25)

This quote connects back to the theme of pride and writing and family. Because Joad's father choose not to write, judging by the way they speak, they couldn't really write well. They most likely never went to school or didn't finish school. His father took pride on that because he couldn't write. But then again, there wasn't a way for Joad to get a hold of his family because they all choose not to write. So he hasn't seen his family in over 4 years because of his incident. I think that the significance to not write is that he thinks its smarter to just say what you have to say, and not write it out. And because it takes longer. 

"Well, they been Choppin' cotton, all of 'em, even the kids an' your grampa. Getting money together so they can shove in west. There ain't nothing here."(46)

This quote connects back to the theme of family and community. In Oklahoma, on the dry fields, they have been having dust storms, so the farmers that owed the land couldn't make any money off their properties because of the mysterious dust. The bankers or "the monsters" took away their lands because they could not pay for it, them having no money for food forcing them to move out west to find jobs. Back then, going west to California was a must. It was a place where your insured to get a job and it being the better life for you. I think that the people blame the bankers for them having to move out to California.