... back on its feet and eventually continues on its journey. The animal also faced obstacles such as a red ant which crawled on it and Tom Joad who captured it. This metaphor of the turtle's struggles is used to represents the efforts of the Joads throughout the story since the Joads meet many obstacles just as the turtle has. For instance, they ... farmers to leave the land they have worked so hard on. John Steinbeck, in The Grapes of Wrath, deftly employs symbols to express his view to readers and to clearly define the themes he wishes to get across, while adding a level that brings his ...

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... , for the doctor the pearl is a symbol of luxury, Paris, etc., for Kino it is probably a symbol of a lucky family life. The structure of the text is quite hard to define, as the given text is an extract, consisting of seven relatively small paragraphs. In general the text can be devided into three parts. The first part serves as a sort of ... animal-, etc.), polysindeton (e.g. a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet-), coupling (scramble and dart-, pulsing and vibrating-), zeugma (put a thoughtful look in his eyes and a memory of certain repairs...""), metaphor (a colonial ani...

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