Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - English You Are What You Own You Are What You Own It’s funny in life how things and people can often become one. For example, often times pets resemble their owners. Maybe in personality, or a certain physical feature. Throughout the book, The Grapes of Wrath, there are chapters that play on one another. For this assignment I picked chapters six and nine because I believe they resemble each other in quite remarkable ways. Chapter six and nine both bring up possessions and the importance and Chapter six talks about how Muley can’t leave the land because it’s part of him, even Casy says, “Fella gets use’ to a place, it’s hard to go.” p.69 Casy also says..... “Muley’s got a holt of somepin, an’ it’s too big for him, an’ it’s too big for me.” p.66 What’s most important or most relevant is when Muley gets so worked up, (“Them sons-a-bitches,” and goes on about how is “pa come here fifty years ago. An’ I ain’t a-goin’.”) p.63-64 He even goes on about how the land is no good on p. 64. Muley talks about wandering like a graveyard ghost. “I been goin’ aroun’ the places over by our forty: in a gully they’s a bush. Fust time I ever laid a girl.” p.69 How his father got killed by a bull and the bloods still there. His whole life is a part of that earth. His blood, humanities, sweat, and tears. It’s all there. It’ll always be there. No matter how the sun beats on the cruel cold earth. No matter how man or technology tears her up. It’ll always be there. Chapter nine expresses similar ideas, except they talk about possessions not “In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers.” How can you leave a place you breathed all your life? How can you gather your beloved materials and sell them to someone who has no value for them? In the story they (I believe that “they” is Al and Ton or some other members of the Joad family) talk about certain memories. For example on page 117, they say, “That plow, that horrow, remember in the war we planted mustard?” These things mean so much to them. Our lives are so much a part of what we own. “You’re buying a little girl plaiting the forelocks, taking off her hair ribbon to make bows, standing back, head cocked, rubbing the soft noses with her cheek. You’re buying years of work, toil in the sun, you’re buying a sorrow that can’t talk. But watch it, mister. There’s a premium goes with this pile of junk and the bay horses with this beautiful- a packet of bitterness to grow in your house and to flower, some day.” p.118 Not only a beautiful phrase, but a powerful one. It points out the magnitude and emotions of things, memories you just can’t let go. In conclusion, these two chapters interrelate. They both deal with the same idea. “You are what you own." Which is a tormenting thought when you have to give up a piece of your heart and merely receive worthless freedom. A freedom you can’t grow, a freedom you can’t plow and a freedom that can’t be held. And it can never be bought and it’s too bad that this it the only way Bibliography: The Grapes Of Wrath Word Count: 571
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