#The Grapes of Wrath

[faithful-grigori]

”#im so., #KDJDKD, #this isnt like bashing people for not readinf the shit in high school but like come onnn. please., #im so frustrated with the state of this country im sorry but this shit is out of control”

"grapes of wrath was so boring of course i didnt actually read it when it was assigned. what do you mean there's an institution put in place by large corporations to exploit and abuse undocumented immigrants and dehumanize and turn the working class on each other?"

[dathen]

Hitting the California agricultural industry portion of The Grapes of Wrath and am bouncing off the walls and breathing fire

[intellectualpoaching]

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[literatureaesthetic]

just finished 'east of eden', and the urge to write a wholeass dissertation on it is STRONG lmao. i'm so happy i decided to purchase 'grapes of wrath' earlier this week, i can't wait to explore more of steinbeck's brilliant mind 🤍

[thebarroomortheboy]

John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford

[afropuffsartstudios]

Book Spoilers [Classical Edition]

I found these on an old hard drive. I'm hoping I can find whoever made these amazing spoilers.

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

- Post Malone was once the backup catcher for the San Diego Padres. 

- The proper demonym for people who live in Worcester, Massachusetts is “Woostookian”.

- Winston Churchill had a pet turtle he named “Davey”. 

- After a disastrous semi-public attempt at pumpkin spice scones, Betty Crocker withdrew from society and she would yell “keep moving!” to people who walked near her house. 

- In Steinbeck’s original draft of The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad is going to California to audition for a part in a Busby Berkeley musical. 

[peggy-elise]

Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath 1940 🧶

[citizenscreen]

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published on April 14, 1939

[diaryofaphilosopher]

It is not so very hard to judge a story after it is written, but after many years, to start a story still scares me to death. I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.

— John Steinbeck, in a letter congratulating his former creative writing professor at Stanford, Edith Mirrielees, for the paperback publication of her book, Story Writing.

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[witherydithery]

The strategy to getting through classic literature is to be really weird about one character.

[dathen]

GNASHING MY TEETH

[classichollywoodarchive]

HENRY FONDA, JANE DARWELL, AND DORIS BOWDON IN THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

images from imdb

[fragmentedexcess]

"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

[violentdevotion]

[hollywoodlady]

Henry Fonda in 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1940).