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Questions:
1.Connection to place: connection to the land or toa specific place is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's writing, andparticularly inThe Grapes of Wrath.
a.What is the importance of the connection between people and the place they live and the land they live on?What happens when that connection is severed?
2.From I to We: the connection between the individualand the group. To different degrees characters throughout thenovel begin to see themselves as part of a larger whole (as part of a family, as part of a group of families in aroadside camp, as part of the entire group of migrants heading to California, etc.).
a.How/when do characters see themselves as part of something larger?
b.What is that something larger?
c.What happens to these characters? How does seeing themselves as something larger affect their behavior?
d.Are there characters who do not seem to make this realization (or reject it)? What happens to them?
3.Life History: the history of people, the place theylive in, and the other groups that surround them are essential tounderstanding the development of characters.
a.What life history guides the Joads? What in their individual and family background influences them? Whatholds them back?
b.What outside influences affect them and how?
4.Universals: the experiences of the Joads and of othercharacters in