What they may not know is the beauty of Steinbeck's writing, and how drawn into the Joads' lives the reader becomes. This much most people know without having read the book. Stoic and determined, the Okies (a derogatory term out West), sell all they can, and pile high on old cars what they'll need for the journey and their new life. Handbills promising work in California entice thousands to take to the highway, Route 66, and migrate west.

The Joads and others in Oklahoma don't want to move, don't want to change, but in the Great Depression, dispossessed of their farms, they have no choice. A fundamental principle the foundation for a future development.Īll three will come into play in this story. A genetic predisposition to a given trait or personality characteristic.ģ. Biology The initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a part or an organ develops primordium.Ģ.

What a poet Steinbeck is! But what does anlage mean?ġ. Show More armed with an appliance of dispersal, twisting darts and parachutes for the wind, little spears and balls of tiny thorns, and all waiting for animals and for the wind, for a man's trouser cuff or the hem of a woman's skirt, all passive but armed with appliances of activity, still, but each possessed of the anlage of movement.'

Farvel til våpnene by Ernest Hemingway