For 10 points, name this novel about the new life of the impoverished Joad family in California, by John Steinbeck.
This novel cautions the reader to "fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bomber lives -- for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died." This novel's mostly-odd interchapters, which its author called "pace changers," include one adopting the persona of a profiteering used car salesman. The narrator of this novel observes that "in the souls of the people, the" title objects are "filling and growing heavy," in a chapter preceding one in which a policeman bashes the (*) skull of a suspected Communist with a pickaxe handle. The protagonist of this novel promises his mother that "Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there," before leaving to take up his ex-preacher friend's cause organizing workers. In this novel's final scene, a man starving in a barn is breastfed by Rose of Sharon. For 10 points, name this novel about the new life of the impoverished Joad family in California, by John Steinbeck.
This novel cautions the reader to "fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bomber lives -- for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died.
The Grapes of Wrath