... Young Al boasts that his Hudson jalopy will `ride like a bull calf`. The western states are `nervous as horses before a thunder storm`. There is a parallel drawn between the cars of migrants along the highway and bugs; the youngest children, Ruth and Winnie and wild animals, etc. There are no more than half ... opening paragraph is as carefully worked out as an overture to an opera. The themes of red, gray, green and earth are announced and given parallel developments: red to pink, gray to white, green to brown, ploughed earth to think and hard crust. There are many other prose styles an...

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Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff are comparable in many ways. Both Steinbeck and Wolff use details and sentence structure in such a way to connect with their audience, while still allowing their readers to think for themselves. The quote "I feel that there are too many realities." (Steinbeck, p. 60) represents the ... first describe the event itself, then the reaction of himself as a teenager, and finally ending each scenerio with his thoughts as an adult to give three alternate realities. This was parallel to his own realities, thus connecting the a...

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... on Casy's pragmatism, humanism, and transcendentalism. In fact Casy seems to have a mystical presence despite his death. Tom even tells Ma "Seems like I can see him sometimes" (Steinbeck 572). The structure of The Grapes of Wrath also seems to mirror the bible in some respects. Battle Hymn of the Republic The Grapes of Wrath is structured in three parts: the time ... ; the forty years of wandering in the desert wilderness; and the arrival in Canaan, the Promised Land. The plagues in Egypt, that forced the Israelites to flee, have the their parallel in the drought and erosion of the Dust ...

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