What was the family searching for? ✔️✔️Work, Hope, Home, Stability, Universal needs that affect
everyone, A new life
Why do you suppose the preacher lost his spirit? ✔️✔️He is the voice/philosophy of Steinback
Goodness comes not from God but us
Sees things as they are
Says maybe we've got the whole religion thing wrong
Lost faith
No self control
No such thing as sin or virtue
Holy Spirit is us loving eachother
What factors caused Muley to be touched? ✔️✔️being left alone, having all of his hard work
destroyed, leaving family and property
grief
there was no one to blame
, wanted to stay behind
How did technology hurt the tenant farmers? ✔️✔️The caterpillar tractors
Mechanized farming equipment
Only needed a few people to work a farm
Real people are impacted by technology
Why is land so important to these people? ✔️✔️They inherited it and their ancestors lived and died
on it
It was all they know
See it as theirs even though its actually not
Their history was there
System set them up for failure
It was a big deal
What are your feelings as the Caterpillar so easily demolishes the house? ✔️✔️Sad
After Ma goes through her memories meaning that she is letting go of the past and can't relive the past
One of them was the LA purchase dog