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• Tom C1:

  • "His clothes were new-all of them, cheap and new" (page 8)
  • "I heard somebody got killed or somepin"
  • "I'll tell you anything. I ain't hidin' nothin'"
  • "But sometimes a guy'll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker"
• Casy loss of faith C4:

  • "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do"
  • "I figgered there was just no hope for me an' I was a damned ol' hypocrite"
  • "Then I'd feel bad an I'd pray an pray but it didn't do no good"
• Muley C6:

  • "I got wonderin' around. Jus' walkin around"
  • "Like a damn ol' graveyard ghost"
  • "I'm stayin'. They ain't getting rid of me. If they throw me off I'll come back"
• Chapter 10:

  • "Then all of a sudden the family began to function"
  • "And the four men moved down the sty, their legs flickering in the lantern light"
• Chapter 13 - Grampa's death:

  • "I ain't going, I tell you. Gonna stay like Muley"
  • "Grampa buried his pa with his own hand and done it with dignity an' shaped the grave with his own shovel"
  • "Can't never get the smell of death from a quilt"
• Chapter 16 - Breaking down of the car:

  • "The Joads and Wilsons crawled westward as a unit"
  • "You got any place to go, back home?" / "No" said Pa
  • "The family became a unit"
  • "We're proud to help" said Wilson
  • "Connie gonna get a job in a store or maybe a fact'ry"
  • "On'y way you gonna get me to go is if you whup me"
  • "I won' take no whuppin' cry in' and begin'" / "I swear to God I'll wait till you got your back turned"
  • "I never seen her so sassy"
  • "She was the power. She had taken control"
• Chapter 19:

  • "Once belonged to Mexico" / "tattered Americans poured in"
  • "They wanted nothing as frantically as the Americans wanted the land"
• Chapter 20 - Hoovervilles:

  • "I guess cops push 'im around so much he's still spinning." (Page 255)
  • "An' you see how quick the deputy sheriff shoves you along." (Page 255)
  • "Some says they don't want us to vote; keep us movin' so we can't vote" (page 255)
  • "So you're looking for work. What ya think ever'body else is lookin' for? Di'monds?"
  • "S'pose a nickel'll buy at least somepin for them kids - why they'll kill each other fighting for that nickel."
  • "Fifteen cents an hour. Ten hours for a dollar an' a half." (Page 256)
  • "You don' look nice livin' in ol' tents, an' it's a pretty country but you stink it up. They don't want you around. So they kick you out." (Page 257)
  • "Ever hear a' blacklist?" (Page 258) "They take your picture an' send it all over. Then you can't get work nowhere."
• AO3 - Route 66:

  • 2400 miles
  • Symbolizes mobility, freedom, and pursuit of the American Dream
  • Primary route for migration of farm workers from the Midwest to California during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s
  • Hoover's refusal to involve the federal government in certain interventions during the Depression
  • Roosevelt's New Deal and its impact on government welfare programs and public morale
• Hoovervilles were makeshift shelters that emerged during the Great Depression in the United States
• They were named after President Herbert Hoover, who was blamed for the intolerable economic and social conditions
• Hoovervilles symbolized the widespread poverty and homelessness resulting from the economic collapse
• The term Hooverville was coined by Charles Michelson, the Publicity Chief of the Democratic National Committee
• Seattle's main Hooverville was one of the largest, longest-lasting, and best-documented in the nation
• Hooverville shanties were constructed of various materials like cardboard, tar paper, glass, lumber, tin, and salvaged items
• Most shanties were constantly being rebuilt, as they were usually kicked out of their dwellings
• Hoovervilles were typically grim and unsanitary, posing health risks to inhabitants and those nearby
• The Bonus Army, composed of World War I veterans and their families, set up a Hooverville in Washington, D.C. in 1932
• The government refused to pay the veterans their promised bonuses, leading to the eviction of the Bonus Army by U.S. Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur
• Homelessness quickly followed joblessness during the Great Depression, with millions of Americans living outside the normal housing market
• Many individuals found shelter in squatter encampments, vacant buildings, or on public land where they built crude shacks
• The creation of Seattle's Hooverville was due to an ineffective social system and the inability of local politicians to address the Depression's social crisis
• Hooverville residents had nowhere else to go, and public sympathy was mostly with them
• The term "Hooverville" was first used in 1930 by Charles Michelson, the Publicity Chief of the Democratic National Committee
• Life in Hoovervilles was grim, with unsanitary conditions posing health risks to residents and nearby communities
• Understanding that campers had nowhere else to go, more affluent people were willing to tolerate Hoovervilles and their impoverished residents
• "And now they [the Joads] were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them."