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"Gilbert Grape", 2002.
An overview of the character, Gilbert Grape in the film, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper examines the psychology of the character Gilbert Grape from the film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" No other sources are used.
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"What?s Eating Gilbert Grape", 2006.
This paper examines Peter Hedges's novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," which focuses around the dysfunctional Grape family in Endora, Iowa.
955 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 33.95
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This paper explores life in small town America as seen through the eyes of 24-year-old Gilbert Grape. Peter Hedges's novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" details the Grape family which revolves around Momma, a woman who copes with her husband's suicide by remaining in the safe confines of her home where she suppresses her pain with food. Gilbert begins as the narrator, passively going through life waiting for something wonderful to happen to him while waiting to get out of Endora.
This paper also discusses how Gilbert grapples with his love and simultaneous hatred for his family stemming from his bitterness about his predicament.
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"Gilbert feels a keen sense of loyalty to his siblings and to mother, and has an intense feeling of obligation as a family member to care for them. But despite the loyalty and his sense of duty, he resents them for holding him back from being what he yearns to be: himself, but independent and free of the burden he has undertaken in caring for his troublesome brother and enabling his mother in her self-destructive binge. His reluctance in undertaking this responsibility is underscored by his repeated abandoning of Arnie, giving him amble opportunity to get into trouble (including one short bout of imprisonment)."
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"What's Eating Gilbert Grape?", 2006.
An analysis of the movie "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?".
957 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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The paper analyzes the character of Gilbert, in the movie "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?". The paper examines Gilbert's relationships with the other characters in the movie. The writer further analyzes the characters of Arnie, Gilbert's younger, mentally-disabled brother; his morbidly-obese mother; and Betty Carver, the woman Gilbert is having an affair with. The paper concludes with a deeper look at Gilbert's relationship with his two sisters.
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"Betty Carver's affair with Gilbert covers up her deep dissatisfaction with her marriage and with her life. She ignores her children, who scream and act belligerently. Betty, who is probably in her early 40s, becomes highly dependent on Gilbert for emotional sustenance. When it appears Gilbert may be losing interest in the affair, Betty throws an emotional tantrum out of desperation."
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"What's Eating Gilbert Grape", 2002.
Analyzes family relationships in Peter Hedges' book, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the book "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" by Peter Hedges. By analyzing the family relationships that take place within the novel, we can learn how Gilbert deals with his mentally handicapped brother.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape, 2001.
Examines translation of Peter Hedges' novel into 1994 film. Discusses dramatic alterations & themes.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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" This paper examines the translation of a novel into a film, through the comparison between Peter Hedges' novel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and the film directed by Lasse Hallstrom from Hedges' screenplay. While the film is faithful to many of the principal characters and incidents in the book, it differs in several minor respects. More importantly, it makes only a brief, introductory attempt to retain the book's first-person narrative structure, thereby dramatically altering essential elements in the story and its central theme. This paper looks at the ways in which these two contrasting media are used to tell the story of small-town longing, frustration, and hope.
Gilbert Grape is still living at home in a highly dysfunctional family. His older brother, Larry, has managed to get away from the Iowa town on Endora which has trapped all the other..."
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Oedipus Myth, 2001.
Examines George Lucas' "Star Wars" triology & Peter Hedges' novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." How plot & theme develop the Greek myth.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 79.95
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"This paper is a comprehensive Oedipal readings of two contemporary texts, George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy and Peter Hedges' novel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape. It considers the way in which each work uses elements of the ancient Greek myth to explore issues and develop themes. Both works use familiar elements from the myth in the plot. At the beginning of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker does not know who his father is; by the end of the trilogy, he has vanquished the man who gave him life and come to his own kind of peace with his destiny. Gilbert Grape's father committed suicide when the boy was young, and his life now consists of his attempts to free himself and his mother of the effects of the family tragedy. Both works also draw from the themes raised in the myth, themes which account for its endurance as a rich source for fiction and drama."
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"The Grapes of Wrath", 2002.
Analyzes John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and discusses its historical accuracy.
1,352 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 45.95
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"The Grapes of Wrath,? by John Steinbeck, tells the story of the fictional Joad family and their journey from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s. Though the family is fictitious, Steinbeck utilizes the characters to create a startling and very real simulation of the life of the average family during the Depression. The paper compares the occurrences and economical conditions of the novel to those which truly existed during the 1930s. The paper explains that Steinbeck created "The Grapes of Wrath" not merely as a story, but as a historical and social document of the lives of migrant workers during the Depression as well.
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"John Steinbeck chose to keep his novel ?The Grapes of Wrath? as historically accurate as possible. According to John Steinbeck?s Biography by Donne E. Florence, Steinbeck wrote the novel to express his disapproval for America?s social ills during the 1930?s, sympathizing with the plights of the migrant workers and their families. His goal was to condemn the treatment of America?s migrant workers and to show everyone how though their lives were because of corporations. He also wanted to show that the migrant workers were just as humane as any other person, and that all they were trying to do was survive in a society dead-set against them. Another reason for Steinbeck?s accuracy in his novel was the result of his experience as a newspaper reporter, which allowed him to see first-hand the difficult lives of the migrants during his visits to labor camps. Accuracy was also important to Steinbeck because he wanted his book to be more than a story; he wanted it to be a social document as well."
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"The Grapes of Wrath", 2004.
A review of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" in relation to Roosevelt's response to the plight of the people during the Great Depression.
1,068 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper analyzes the novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck. The paper discusses the novel in relation to some of the ways in which Franklin D. Roosevelt responded to the needs of the people in 1933 and throughout the rest of the Thirties. Steinbeck's powerful novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", portrays the poverty and the dire trouble the country was in. The paper explains that people needed to know that the government understood and cared about their plight. The paper illustrates how Roosevelt let them know that he cared and that he would do everything in his power to rectify the situation.
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""The Grapes of Wrath" is the touching and dark story of the Joad family, who travels to California from Oklahoma after their crops fail and they lose their farm. The chapters of the novel are generally divided into chapters that discuss the Joad family and their problems, and a more general discussion of the Great Depression and its affect on the nation. One historian called it the "worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world" (Gusmorino, 1996). An article at the Roosevelt Institute states, "over $75 billion in equity capital had been lost on Wall Street, the gross national product had plunged from a high of $104 billion to a mere $74 billion, and U.S. exports had fallen by 62 per cent. Over thirteen million people, nearly 25 percent of the workforce, were now unemployed" (Editors, 2000)."
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Inter-chapters in the "Grapes of Wrath", 2002.
Examines the inter-chapters in John Steinbecks "Grapes of Wrath" which provide the social background and historical information and act as a counterbalance to the highly emotional tale of the Joads.
3,301 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 94.95
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This paper shows how, without the inter-chapters, the "Grapes of Wrath" would simply be the sad story of dust bowl migrants in California. By adding social, political, and historical background Steinbeck has transformed a sob story into social analysis.
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"These interchapters serve two main functions. First by presenting the social background they serve to amplify the pattern of action created by the Joad family. 13 of the 16 interchapters are largely devoted to this purpose. For example, chapter 1 describes in panoramic terms the drought that forces the migrants off their land. Chapter 5 is mostly a dialog between two generalized forces, the banks and the farmers, presenting in archetype the conflict in which the Joads are enmeshed. Chapters 7 and 9 depict, respectively, the buying of jalopies and the selling of household goods. Chapter 11 describes at length a decaying and deserted house that is the prototype of all the houses abandoned in the dust bowl. Other chapters explore, through the collage technique of chapters 7 and 9, the nature of that new, nomadic society which the Joads are helping to form. (14, 17, 23). Almost every aspect of the Joads? adventures is enlarged in the interchapters and seen as part of the social climate."
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Social Issues in "The Grapes of Wrath", 2002.
An examination of the social justice theme prevalent in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
1,374 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses how John Steinbeck's 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath" dealt with major social problems of the era. The novel focuses on the troubles of the Joad family and how it took a major social upheaval to make people begin to realize that exploitation existed on such a big scale and, more importantly, that they could do something about it.
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"The novel's plot centers on the Joad family's migration to California after the loss of their Oklahoma farm. The extended family--including the Joad grandparents, an uncle and Rose of Sharon's husband--are joined at the last minute by Tom Joad, just out of prison, and his friend Jim Casy, a former preacher who now believes that it is more important that people help each other than that they worry about traditional religion. Both the grandparents die on the hard journey and when the family arrives in California they find that they have been misled and there are few jobs even among the poorly paid migrant farm workers. Ma Joad leads the family and struggles to keep it together through many difficulties. They encounter officials and landowners and others who treat all the "Okie" migrants shamefully and the only times that anyone shows any sense of caring for others are in encounters with other migrants. In one clash with authority Jim Casy takes the blame for Tom Joad and goes to jail."
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The Great Delano Grape Strike, 2002.
This paper studies the history and impact of the Great Delano Grape Strike of 1965 on the American labor movement.
2,135 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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The first part of the paper examines the working conditions of immigrant farm workers and the reasons that prevented them from forming unions and benefiting from organized labor. The second part looks at the strike itself, concentrating from the first walkout in the spring of 1965 to the signing of the first contract with a California grower in 1966. In the final part, the paper examines the historic achievements the Great Delano Grape Strike made possible for farm workers, as well as for the larger field of women?s and immigrant rights and ethnic identity.
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"For more than a century, the valleys of Central California have served as one of the most important agricultural centers of the country. The fields of Salinas, San Joaquin and Coachella, to name a few, have supplied the rest of the country with lettuce, beets, strawberries and other fresh produce. This agribusiness empire is built on backbreaking labor of migrant workers. Since the late 19th century, young male migrants from China, Japan, Mexico and the Philippines were brought in to work as planters and fruit pickers. Because these workers were important sources of cheap labor, farm owners took great pains to keep them isolated and demoralized. Many of these young men did not speak the language and were barred from associating with other groups (Kushner, 1975). By the 1960s, the organized labor movement in the United States was able to enact laws that protected and enshrined worker rights. These included laws pertaining to benefits, fair wages, reasonable working hours and safe working conditions."
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"The Grapes of Wrath", 2002.
A book review "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, focusing on the social conditions of the time.
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses how "Grapes of Wrath? focuses on the lives of migrant workers, poverty, and social stratification during the dry spells within the Dust Bowl region (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado), which is brought about by droughts and dust storms in these states. It explains how the novel utilizes the social aspects of America?s history through the depiction of the lives of Tom Joad and his family, who migrated to California in order to find work and a living that Oklahoma had denied them because of the dry spells plaguing the state.
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"The historical context of the novel is also related to the author?s motivation in writing the novel: John Steinbeck aims to depict the lives of California migrant workers during the 1930s as one that are dictated by social stratification caused by poverty and increasing urbanization of the Californian state. This is an important message that Steinbeck extends to his readers through the lives of the Joad family and random thoughts of the author about social issues and controversies happening and is related to the novel?s story. Although the bulk of the novel?s content concentrates on the lives of Tom Joad and other migrant workers in California, the primary focus of this book review will be on the social implications of John Steinbeck?s ?The Grapes of Wrath.?"
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"Grapes of Wrath" and "Waiting for Lefty", 2001.
This paper analyzes the topic of labor disputes by comparing "Grapes of Wrath" with "Waiting for Lefty".
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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A comparative analysis of the history of labor disputes in a changing American society by looking at the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and the play "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odet. The rise of trade unions and a representation for the workforce was not an easy process and this paper looks at this through these two literary works.
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"Labor in America has been described as a stabilizing force in the national economy and a bulwark of our democratic society. In this past century, American labor has played a central role in the elevation of the American standard of living. The benefits, which unions have negotiated for their members, are, in most cases, widespread in the economy and enjoyed by millions of our fellow citizens outside the labor movement. The working people of America have had to unite in struggle to achieve the gains that they have accumulated during this century. Improvements did not come easily. Organizing unions, winning the right to representation, using the collective bargaining process as the core of their activities, struggling against bias and discrimination, the working men and women of America have built a trade union movement of formidable proportions. Two such stories capture our attention during the discussion of this paper. First is John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, an outstanding portrayal of the theme that people have always had to adapt to changing times. The second is a play Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odet. "
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"Grapes of Wrath", 2002.
An analysis of the character, Ma Joad in John Steinbeck's famous book, "The Grapes of Wrath".
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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Ma Joad is one of the main characters in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". This paper explores her strengths, her personality and the relationship she has with the other characters in the novel.
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"We already know, then, that she loves her family passionately, and will stand by them loyally, and we know that she thinks violence is sometimes justified. Shortly after Tom comes home from prison, the family has to leave their farm. They have decided to move to California and try to get work as migrant farm hands. Both on the trip and once they have arrived in California, Ma Joad continues to show her great strength and fierce loyalty. "
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Chapters 10-12 of "The Grapes of Wrath", 2001.
This paper summarizes chapters 10-12 of The Grapes of Wrath.
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This paper provides a summary of the central chapters in John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" - chapters 10-12. It covers the time that the Joads prepare to leave California and the start of their journey.
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"Chapter 10
The primary purposes of Chapter 10 are to detail how the Joads prepare to depart for California and to reveal how different members of the Joad family relate to one another. As the chapter opens, we see how close Tom Joad is to his mother, and also about the misgivings Ma Joad has about the upcoming trip. "Seems too nice, kinda," she says, of the reports she has heard of California. "Once again a faceless man makes his intrusion into the story, this time the anonymous man who was handing out han'bills encouraging families to leave their homes, tellin' how they need folks to work. They wouldn't go to that trouble if there wasn't plenty work [in California" Tom confirms her fears rather than her hopes, saying that he heard that there was too many "folks lookin' for work" in California. Despite their worries, Ma Joad is shown to have a good sense of humor, as she jokes about her son's irreverent views about scripture. The comic intrusion of Grandpa also lifts the shadow of foreboding from the two."
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