https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv Olivia Spenard en-us 2017-04-17 12:05:28 UTC 2025-11-02 10:38:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166528548 "How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach, but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond any other." (Chapter 19, 261). ]]> 2017-04-17 12:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166528548 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166529140 Hunger is arguably the worst enemy to the Joad family in the Grapes of Wrath. The threat of hunger and starvation looms constantly over their heads as they travel down Route 66. An empty stomach has the overwhelming ability to make someone want to give up; to surrender. The Joad family has to fight this urge and continue on. They have to silence their cramps and hunger pangs and rationally make do with what they have. The Joad family's food situation is not unfamiliar to many families in our contemporary society, in both urban and rural environments all over the country. In fighting hunger and poverty, those who are more fortunate can donate food, volunteer at food drives like Foodlink, organize canned goods and make the most of the food that we all have to share. ]]> 2017-04-17 12:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166529140 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166529640 "When a majority of the people are hungry and cold, they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds all through history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. (Chapter 19, 262). ]]> 2017-04-17 12:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166529640 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530301 "Three dollars a day. I got damn sick of creeping for my dinner – and not getting it. I got a wife and kids. We got to eat. Three dollars a day. Is that right?" (Chapter 5, 38). ]]> 2017-04-17 12:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530301 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530346 2017-04-17 12:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530346 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530482 “And in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” (Chapter 25, 385). ]]> 2017-04-17 12:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530482 890151005 https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530885 The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them, the enless moving changed them. They were migrants. And the hospitality changed them, welded them, united them. (Chapter 21, 311). ]]> 2017-04-17 12:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/890151005/rg8uizmermyv/wish/166530885