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  • Essay / The resemblance of the chapters in The Grapes of Wrath

    The resemblance of the chapters in The Grapes of WrathIt's funny in life how things and people can often become one. For example, pets often resemble their owners. Perhaps in personality or in a certain physical characteristic. Throughout the book, The Grapes of Wrath, there are chapters that play off each other. For this assignment, I chose chapters six and nine because I think they are quite remarkably similar. Chapters six and nine both discuss possessions and the importance and relevance they have in your life. Chapter six explains how Muley cannot leave the earth. because it's part of him, even Casy says, "My guy gets used to a place, it's hard to go there." p.69 Casy also says..... "Muley's got a thing, and it's too big for him, and it's too big for me." p.66 What's more important or relevant is when Muley gets so angry ("Those sons of bitches", and goes on about how "Daddy came here fifty years ago. And I don’t go there.”) p.63-64 He even continues on the fact that the earth is not good on p. 64. Muley talks about wandering like a graveyard ghost. “I explored the area with our forty: in a ravine, there is a bush. This is the first time I've slept with a girl. p.69 How his father was killed by a bull and the blood is still there. His whole life is part of this earth. His blood, his humanity, his sweat and his tears. It's all there. It will always be there. No matter how the sun beats on the cold and cruel earth. No matter how man or technology tears it. He will always be there. Chapter nine expresses similar ideas, except that it speaks of not earthly but material goods. “In the small houses, the tenants sifted through their belongings and those of their fathers and grandfathers. » How can you leave a place where you have breathed all your life? How can you collect your favorite materials and sell them to someone who has no value for them? In the story, they (I believe "they" are Al and Ton or other members of the Joad family) talk about certain memories. For example, on page 117 they say: “This plow, this horror, do you remember, during the war we planted mustard? These things mean so much to them. Our lives are so much a part of what we have. "You buy a little girl braiding