Matthew's+Community+in+America

"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1939) ( [|Mr. Koehn's Class] )

“...the quality of owning freezes you forever into ‘I’, and cuts you off forever from the ‘we’” (Steinbeck, 152). Mansion landscape ([|Google User Content])

“...if a fella’s got somepin to eat an’ another fella’s hungry–why, the first fella ain’t got not choice” (Steinbeck, 49) Migrating Okies in San Diego ([|Affordable Housing Institute])

“But where does it stop? Who can we shoot?” (Steinbeck, 38) Great Depression soup line ([|schools-history.info])

"armies of bitterness" (Steinbeck, 88). Chicago, 1968. Anti-war (Vietnam) protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. ([|Life.com])

“...all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of” (Steinbeck, 24). "...workin’ together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang... that’s holy” (Steinbeck, 81). New York City, 1969. Moratorium Day. ([|Life.com])

media type="youtube" key="yer4L1Uhayc" height="349" width="560" "The Grapes of Wrath" (d. John Ford w. Nunnally Johnson, 1940)

Matthew's Community in America Reflection