美国文学PPT全套课件.ppt

A Summary of the 3rd part The?Joads?are?lucky?to arrive at the government camp. In the morning, neighbors share their breakfast with Tom and together they go to work for a small grower who is forced by the Farmers Association and Bank of the West to offer low wages. The grower warns them about a plot to shut down the government camp that Saturday night. Although?the?conditions in the government camp are the best the Joads have encountered, they cannot find work. A man tells them about work picking peaches. When they arrive, they are escorted by the police into the orchard. They soon realize they have been brought in as strike breakers. That night, Tom slips under the fence surrounding the orchard and discovers Casy leading the strike. They are ambushed by an agent of the growers and Casy is killed. Continued The?next?day,?a?torrential rain falls and the waters quickly rise, eliminating any chance for immediate escape. Rose of Sharon delivers a stillborn child. Eventually, the family is able to leave the boxcar. Al stays behind with his new bride-to-be. The family wades through the flood until they find a barn on higher ground. Inside are a boy and his father who is near death. As they settle in, Ma and Rose of Sharon exchange a look, and the novel ends with Rose of Sharon suckling the starving man with her breast milk. Themes Hope Class Conflict Fanaticism Individual vs. Society Commitment The Lesson from the Novel The lesson of class solidarity is not presented verbally but arises form the very ground as the battered jalopies, old trucks and “tin lizzies” converge from a hundred side roads on to the main highway going west. The men talking to new arrivals begin to say, not “I lost my land” but “We lost our land,” and so on. Point of View The?novel?is?narrated in the third-person voice (“he”/“she”/“it”). What is particularly significant about this technique is that the point of view varies in tone and method, depending on the authors purpose. The novels