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The Grapes of Wrath. Chapter Twelve “Highway 66”. Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66 - the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from Mississippi to Bakersfield - over the red lands and the grey lands, twisting up into the mountains, crossing the Divide and down into the bright and terrible desert ...
She saw the turtle and swung to the right, off the highway, the wheels screamed and a cloud of dust boiled up. Two wheels lifted for a moment and then settled.
27 de jul. de 2016 · US novelist John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968). In his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” about Dust Bowl migrants of the 1930s, Steinbeck devoted a chapter to Route 66, which he...
In Chapter 12, Steinbeck relates the overall experience of migrant families traveling on Highway 66 to California. He describes this highway as the "mother road." This name has stuck. Even though Route 66, as it was later called, was decommissioned in the 1980s, it is still referred to as the Mother Road.
Mae took down the plates and scraped the pie crusts into a bucket. She found her damp cloth and wiped the counter with circular sweeps. And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
Route 66 is an actual road, the number was given to it by the government so Steinbeck had no symbolic meaning for it in the book.
11 de abr. de 2019 · In 1940, John Ford shot the movie which gave it global fame, and earned him a Best Director Oscar. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck coined the phrase "Mother Road", referring to Route 66. The Grapes of Wrath billboard along a California highway, Carol M. Highsmith.
