Text Connections

Blog Topic #4: Text Connections
Text-to-Text: Colors play an imperative role in describing the setting or the tone of the story. John Steinbeck uses many colors to convey the moods of the setting and of the people. Gray is the most common color used because of the stress and frigid tone. Also in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the colors that the main character, Janie, wore reflected her mood. During her marriage to Joe Starks, she often wore pale and dull colors, but while she was married to Tea Cake she was always dressed in a bright blue dress of some sort. Through out The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck includes many long sentences. This is similar to the Scarlet Letter because Nathaniel Hawthorne used many dashes to elongate the sentence and to add as much detail as possible.
Text-to-World: In The Grapes of Wrath, there is a town described in which several farmers lose their privileges to the land they work on. A similar crisis is happening right now, many families are being forced to move out of their homes by the bank/government. In a way the economic crises that this country has experienced is simply in a reoccurring cycle in which every financial issue will eventually happened again.