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Frank 2022-03-20 09:01:45

One second I was thinking about how cute the old man is, but the next second he died. A little uncomfortable. The movie is very realistic. Since the family moved out of their homeland, they began to experience despair one after another. The old man also fulfilled his last wish and stayed in this homeland. The ugly face of the capitalists is in sharp contrast with the hardships of the displaced people who have been driven over. The poor are not human beings in their eyes, and the Oklahoma people look down on them even more. What country doesn't have a dark time? Record a sentence from a movie. Did you bust you ofjail? -No,they paroled me. -Jailbreak? - No, it's parole. -Suppose he's telling the truth, that fella? -He's telling the truth. The truth for him. He wasn't making it up. -Was the truth for us? -I don't know. -They ain't human. No human being would live the way they do. A human being couldn't stand to be so miserable. -Just don't know any better, I guess. I don't mind telling you, the guy they ought to lock up is the guy that sent them things out. Fella ain't got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody. I was though, for a while it looked as though we was beat. Good and beat.

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  • [last lines]

    Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.

  • [the family is leaving the farm, heading for California]

    Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?

    Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.

    Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.

    Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.