Intercalary Chapters of The Grapes of Wrath

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1. Chapter 15

1.1. Diner

1.1.1. Meeting place for rich and poor

1.1.1.1. Okies

1.1.1.2. Truckers

1.1.1.3. Rich Vacationers

1.1.1.3.1. Unproductive isolated life

1.1.2. Loaf of bread and candy to travelers

1.1.2.1. Sharing helps traveler

1.1.2.2. Bigger tip from trucker

1.1.2.2.1. Human Unity is beneficial to all

2. Chapter 25

2.1. Spring in CA

2.1.1. Growers use new techniques

2.1.2. Chemists invent new pesticides

2.1.3. Migrant workers pick bountiful fruit

2.2. Waste/Destruction

2.2.1. Use land only for profit

2.2.2. Ignore life force of land

2.2.2.1. Interrupts life force of humans

3. Chapter 17

3.1. Roadside Communities

3.1.1. New Laws

3.1.1.1. Benefit small man

3.1.1.2. Think as one community

3.1.2. Survive together

3.1.2.1. Must work together as "we"

3.1.2.2. More flexible together

4. Chapter 23

4.1. Entertainment

4.1.1. Stories

4.1.2. Drinking

4.1.3. Music making

4.1.4. Dancing

4.1.5. Necessary to survival

5. Chapter 27

5.1. Picking Cotton

5.1.1. People able to eat again

5.1.2. Scales sometimes crooked

5.1.2.1. Injustice

5.1.3. Pickers band together

5.1.3.1. Unity

5.1.4. Misfortune may come back; cautious

6. Chapter 29

6.1. Floods

6.1.1. No work

6.1.2. Family

6.1.2.1. Women and children watch men

6.1.2.2. Men do not break

6.1.2.2.1. Anger

6.1.2.2.2. Survival

6.1.2.2.3. Work together to survive

6.1.2.3. Life force

7. Chapter 19

7.1. History of California

7.1.1. Farming begins as a way of life

7.1.2. Slowly becomes a way of profit making

7.1.3. Gradual distance from land

7.1.4. Exploitation of workers

7.2. Hoovervilles

7.2.1. Okies treated as sub-human

7.2.2. Injustice contrasts law of roadside camps

7.2.3. Have little, surrounded by plenty

8. Chapter 21

8.1. Anger

8.1.1. Migrants unite, anger toward situation/banks

8.1.2. Natives toward migrants taking over, contributing to growth of big farms

8.2. Fear

8.2.1. Townspeople of angry migrants

8.3. Hunger

8.3.1. Drives migrants to CA

8.3.2. Allows migrants to work for less

9. General Info

9.1. King James bible

9.2. generic characters/forces

9.3. Foreshadow Joad chapters

9.4. Newsreel style

10. Chapter 7

10.1. Salesman sells jalopies

10.1.1. Takes advantage of farmer

10.1.2. Farmer looses control

10.1.3. Frantic

11. Chapter 1

11.1. End of Rain

11.1.1. Sets scene of dust bowl

11.2. Dust

11.2.1. Sets scene of dust bowl

11.3. Family

11.3.1. Women and children watch men

11.3.1.1. Human dignity

11.3.1.2. Unity

11.3.2. Men do not break

11.3.2.1. Survival

12. Chapter 3

12.1. Turtle crosses the road

12.1.1. Road/Dust

12.1.1.1. Hostile environment

12.1.2. Southwest

12.1.2.1. Heading toward CA

12.1.3. Oatbeard in shell

12.1.3.1. Rebirth (Rose of Sharon)

12.1.3.2. Humanity and Life force

12.1.4. Drivers

12.1.4.1. Swerves

12.1.4.1.1. Human kindness

12.1.4.2. Hits

12.1.4.2.1. Survives despite obstacle

13. Chapter 5

13.1. Bank men repossess land

13.1.1. Conflict between socioeconomic classes

13.1.1.1. Family farmer

13.1.1.2. Impersonal company

13.2. Tractor/Driver

13.2.1. Destroys human elements of land

13.2.2. Driver part of machine

13.2.3. Ignores place in community, responsibility to humanity

13.3. Farmer

13.3.1. Torn from land/identity

14. Chapter 9

14.1. Farmers sell off possessions

14.1.1. Lose identity w/o possessions

14.1.2. Lose human dignity with unfair price

14.1.3. Anger begins

14.1.4. Small man cannot help himself, must rely on unity with others

15. Chapter 11

15.1. Tractor works land

15.1.1. Mechanical Lifelessnes

15.1.2. Driver distance from land/life force

15.2. Homes deteriorate

15.2.1. Farmers take life from region

16. Chapter 12

16.1. Route 66

16.1.1. Families must rely on others to survive

16.1.1.1. Human unity

16.1.2. Many don't make it to the end

17. Chapter 14

17.1. Change

17.1.1. Fear from owners

17.2. Causes and Results

17.2.1. Results: widening government, labor unity

17.2.2. Causes: hunger, anger, struggle to survive

17.3. Mine to Ours

17.3.1. Farmers able to do more as "we" than as "I"

17.3.2. Human Unity