“The beating rain worked at the canvas until it penetrated and sent streams down…” (554).With all this rain coming to the California valley, sickness and disease also hit the plantation. Migrants build dikes, but they are swept away. Even though the cars move slowly, the water seeps into the ignition wires and the carburetors and ruin them. Now the migrants lack transportation. They seek shelter in
After being released from prison Hansen was married again within a few years, but also at this point was arrested for several small robberies. He was never formally charged with these crimes; however, when questioned about them he said he did them for the rush he received . Soon after, he and his wife moved to Anchorage, Alaska where he started a bakery and began to become successful and respected in the local community. It was here in the woodlands of Alaska that Hansen began to hunt avidly and he actually won several notorieties for large animals he killed with both rifles and arrows. At this time Anchorage was a relatively sleazy area with many strip clubs and prostitutes on the streets.
He came back from driving and suddenly does not feel well, possibly due to the coffee he drank up in Yonkers. It appears the Willy is getting older and he can not deal with the commuting for work and all the hard work he has to do due to him being a sixty three year old man. The author Arthur Miller used the techniques in this section which are surrealistic are by having Willy day dream and reminisce about his days in the past. Willy relates to his days when he was driving a 1928 red Chevy. There is tension between Willy and Biff because Willy criticized Biff for working at manual labor on farms and horse ranches in the West.
a. Huck was walking leaving town and saw Tom Sawyer, they talked and then went to a family home in the country and stayed there for a while. They switched names because they knew something was not right. 1. When they got there the family locked up Jim and then made Huck and Tom do normally what they do. They had to attempt to break Jim out; so they had to dig in the cellar and then Huck kept getting questioned what he is
Dill’s imagination is wild as well. He tells enormous lies and conducts unlikely stories; he often tries to be some thing he isn’t. “ Having been bound in chains and left to die in the basement by his new father, who disliked him, and secretly kept alive on raw field peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help, Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall. Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel. He traveled with the show all over Mississippi until his infallible sense of direction told him he was in Abbott County, Alabama, just across the river from Maycomb.
For 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash. But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is.
Muley is an old family friend who at the time didn't look so good, he looked like he had been living on his own for years. After Muley explains everything that has happened, the Joads being forced off their land by the landowners. The banks were evicting all farmers from their land. Muley also told them about how the drought has been affecting their land and made it almost impossible to farm. When the property was destroyed by a tractor, the
Starting with one of biggest main character named Tom Joad. He was just released from a state prison in Oklahoma, he was in for manslaughter and served for year years. Then a man who was just a former preacher named Jim Casy meets Tom. They both go together to Tom’s home only to find it deserted with no one there, but another man named Muley Graves who was an old neighbor. He told the two of them that everyone left the land because they headed for California in hopes for new work.
Even washing and waxing it was a choir by itself. It seemed as if it took a whole afternoon. Little did I know, not only had I bought a truck, but I also bought what revolved evolved into a very expensive hobby. Living in the country or even the south it seems socially acceptable for a group of guys to gather around their big jacked up trucks with huge tires and see just how far you can push your beastly of a machine in the mud before it gives out. A few years later I found myself buying another truck strictly for work and around town because the green machine was indeed no longer street legal.
Soils of this region had always been prone to dust storms in the past, but during the drought of the 1930’s they became far more vulnerable. Farmers had removed millions of acres of the natural grass sod to plant wheat during the previous twenty years. When the wheat failed to grow as the decade-long drought arrived in 1931, the soils were left exposed to the strong winds that annually sweep across the region. Millions of tons of blinding black dust would sweep across the Plains, turning plowed fields into sand dunes. There were a reported fourteen storms in 1932.