Help! "The Grapes Of Wrath" by Steinbeck

[BWDK]

I have to do an assingment about "The Grapes Of Wrath" by Steinbeck. :eek: Does anyone know where I can get information about this book. (reviews, summaries, bios of the characters ect.?)

Thanks for any help.

[The Mad Hatter]

The book's not available in Germany?

[BWDK]

Sure it is but I'm just too lazy to read it :) Is there any good website with a bunch of information about this book?

[Fish]

Haha BWDK...you are lazy like me..hehe. Maybe we are siblings...

. Anyway you should try go to www.altavista.com and type in the name + essays. You might be able to find something. Don't you guys in Germany have a place where people put in their essays so you can read then ( and copy/borrow) ?
I'll do a search for you and see what I can find :)



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http://www.cheathouse.com/restricted/essays/ess1/277.html

[The Mad Hatter]

You aren't getting any sympathy from me... when I was in grad school I had to read 2 1/2 novels per week for two whole years. So read the book, young man!! It'll be good for you. :)

[BWDK]

Hey Fish, thanks for your help, well sometimes the internet really pays off ;)

[BWDK]

Well I might read the book, but some additional help won't hurt.

[Joe Tully]

Can't you get Cliffs' Notes, or is this something that you need done tomorrow and you don't have the time to get those? I assume they must be available at a nearby bookstore.

If you need to, just do lots of searches on the various search engines for help.

I haven't had to read a novel for a class in years. But I do have to read a lot out of textbooks and science journals, what with being a Biology major.

[DR. BELCH]

--it's not Caryl Churchhill, B.W. I read two of her her plays during grad school in fall 1998, and g.d. if her writing style didn't give me a headache. Though oddly, I enjoyed Beckett's Waiting for Godot, though I was decidedly in the minority. But by far I'm still smitten with the medieval/Elizabethan European classics, like Dante, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by BWDK
Sure it is but I'm just too lazy to read it :) Is there any good website with a bunch of information about this book?

it's nice to know that german youth is just as slothful as american youth (I think)

what ever you do, don't risk having an original thought - just copy something someone else thought -hoo boy:rolleyes:

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Fish
Don't you guys in Germany have a place where people put in their essays so you can read then ( and copy/borrow)?
I'll do a search for you and see what I can find :)


Being a university professor, I'm just going to pretend I didn't see this. . . .:rolleyes:

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Maxie Zeus


Being a university professor, I'm just going to pretend I didn't see this. . . .:rolleyes:

are we ready to re-discover oral exams? (my mother was an english teacher - I remember grading papers...)

[Jack]

You could try http://www.sparknotes.com/ for some help, but I really think you should try and read it. Also, don't watch the movie, movies always change something very important. The only time I watched a movie to do a book report was when I had accidentally put down the wrong due date. I really panicked when the teacher reminded us the report was due in a couple days, rather than a couple weeks...


Jack:D

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by happyheathen


are we ready to re-discover oral exams? (my mother was an english teacher - I remember grading papers...)

Alas, as long as they give us classes of 35-110 people to teach, oral exams will never be practical. :(

[Singin' Stray Cat]

The Grapes of Wrath isn't that bad from what I recall reading in high school. A few graphic scenes, but overall a good work about the American West during the Depression. (Sorry, that's all you get from me! I don't remember much else! :p ) If I were you, I'd give reading it a try if you have time. 'Course, if you still want some commentary to read along with the book, you might be able to find something on the internet just by going to a good search engine like Google.com and typing in "Steinbeck" or "The Grapes of Wrath." Not all the results will be good, probably, but it's worth a shot.

Hmm, come to think of it, I still have that same book...maybe I should read it again sometime...after I've finished reading all 8 books for Political Science and all 9 for another class. :eek:

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat


Hmm, come to think of it, I still have that same book...maybe I should read it again sometime...after I've finished reading all 8 books for Political Science and all 9 for another class. :eek:

pobrecita...

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Originally posted by happyheathen


pobrecita...

Is that spanish for "You poor overworked college student"? :D

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat


Is that spanish for "You poor overworked college student"? :D

more like SUFFER!!!!:D

[don Jaime]

Okay, there's two things you absolutely need to know about the works of John Steinbeck:

A) It's all morbidly depressing.
B) It's breathtakingly easy to read, so you have no excuse.

I've never read the saga Joad (and I'm an Okie!), but I've done The Red Pony and Travels with Charlie, the latter being as close to upbeat as he ever gets. Steinbeck is like Upton Sinclair, he's writing a sort of protest novel about conditions in the Depression.

Watch the movie sometime, too. John Ford changed the ending to a sort of happy one, but it's still an American film classic.

Did I mention that you should read GoW?

[happyheathen]

to get back to 'toons (and Steinbeck):

how many 'toon versions of 'Of Mice and Men' can you name?

I remember a Rita & Runt, but's there's got to be more...

and, for those interested - for a feel for Steinbeck, visit Salinas, CA - little has changed for the farm workers...


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p.s. READ THE BOOK!!!

[The Mad Hatter]

Ah, all this talk reminds me of Handy, the hand puppet of The Human Ton that's smarter than he is on the Tick...

Handy: Even now, he sulks like Achilles in his tent!
(The other super villians don't get it)
Handy: It's the Illiad....
(The other super villians start to ignore him)
Handy: It's Homer....
(One villian starts whistling to himself)
Handy: READ A BOOK!!

Later...

Human Ton: Yeah, he's sulking in his tent like a guy from Chile.
Handy: You're making us look like jerks again! I told you... READ A BOOK!!

There's my slogan for a new literacy campaign: Don't be a jerk, read a book.

[DR. BELCH]

I figure the old-school Warners directors must have been Steinbeck fans. Look at Avery's George and Junior...or his Screwy Squirrel classic "Lonesome Lenny". Or Chuck Jones and his Three Bears, with Henry ("Pa") and Junyer. Or even Freleng's short with a Lenny-like cat and Sylvester (whom the big dumb cat calls "George" because he can't say "Sylvester"--or, come to think of it, his Rocky and Mugsy shorts.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Originally posted by happyheathen


more like SUFFER!!!!:D

hehe, I should've known better than to expect sympathy from you! :D

Let's see, what was the topic again? Oh yeah, Steinbeck. I read an account somewhere (not sure if it's true) that a woman visiting a country in South America (I think) went into a bookstore and asked the clerk if the store carried anything by Steinbeck. The clerk answered,

"Oh yes! The Angry Grapes!" :D

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
I figure the old-school Warners directors must have been Steinbeck fans. Look at Avery's George and Junior...or his Screwy Squirrel classic "Lonesome Lenny". Or Chuck Jones and his Three Bears, with Henry ("Pa") and Junyer. Or even Freleng's short with a Lenny-like cat and Sylvester (whom the big dumb cat calls "George" because he can't say "Sylvester"--or, come to think of it, his Rocky and Mugsy shorts.

Well, I've never seen the 1939 film version of "Of Mice and Men" so I can't say for sure, but weren't most of the "George" mannerisms borrowed from that film?

On the other hand, my Dad read the book recently (without knowing anything previously about it) and instantly picked up on the echoes from the Warners toons, so maybe it is all there in the book . . .

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat


hehe, I should've known better than to expect sympathy from you! :D



if it's of any consolation - I never got around to reading 'Beyond Good and Evil', and still passed Poli Sci...

it is, however, still on the 'to do' list. Right, dave....