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Period 8 Thesis Madness!!

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1. Steinbeck's rhetorical use of an unapologetic tone throughout the passage expresses the feelings and specifically car business owners had to do such as con their customers to survive. Steinbeck's anaphoras depict the emphasis he puts on the way car business owners try to sell bad cars. The use of appeals (specifically, pathos) emphasizes the feelings portrayed by the speaker; unapologetically conning customers to make money. The use of tone, anaphoras, and appeals highlight the diverse experiences businesses or any owner of business has compared to their customers.

2. Throughout Chapter 7 of The Grapes of Wrath, it is apparent that John Steinbeck’s use of rhetoric choices enables readers to truly understand the mindset and goals of a desperate car salesman during the Great Depression. The use of anaphoras, ethos, and an aggressive tone in the text truly advances Steinbeck’s goal of immersing the reader.

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3. In his novel The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck seeks to make his readers feel anger toward the salesmen and empathy toward the migrant workers. He elicits these emotions through the use of fragments instead of full sentences, slang words, anaphora, alliteration, and switching from the narrator’s perspective to that of a salesman. By using fragmented sentences that sound rushed and robotic, Steinbeck elicits a sense of discomfort and aloofness. This writing style is representative of the salesman’s state of mind: to sell, and to sell quickly. His use of anaphora and alliteration contribute to the effect created by the fragmented sentences, as the constant repetition is also robotic. The switching of perspectives and the integration of slang words, meanwhile, reminds the readers that the characters in this scene are all human and have their own motives.

4. In an effort to expose the manipulation and exploitation present during the Great Depression, Steinbeck uses irony, internal and external dialogue, and juxtaposition. Through these rhetorical choices, it becomes apparent the practices that salesmen, namely car lot owners, utilize to take advantage of the many poverty-stricken migrants.

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5. Steinbeck employs various rhetorical choices, including vivid imagery, persuasive language, while also directly addressing the audience, to effectively convey the high-pressure sales tactics and consumer manipulation used by used car salesmen, ultimately revealing the cynical and profit-driven nature of the industry while also revealing the hardships and desperation of farming families migrating to California during the Great Dust Bowl.

6. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses anaphora, repetition, and concise sentences to convey the expeditious and aggressive nature of the car-selling business. In a time of struggle, the business is more lucrative than ever, with the salesmen learning how to manipulate their words and conversations to benefit their business, Steinbeck shows the thought process behind each sale.

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7. In the excerpt from Chapter 7 of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck harnesses repetitive phrasing, the juxtaposition of dilapidated cars with persuasive sales tactics, and the adoption of a frantic, stream-of-consciousness narration to illuminate the desperation and deceit that pervades the used car marketplace. Through his rhetorical choices in this passage, Steinbeck paints a portrait of a society succumbing to moral decay amid harsh economic realities.

8. Through the detailed description of the environment in car dealers in The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck emphasizes the recurring pattern of manipulation of desperate migrant families. The clever use of figurative language like anaphoras, shaping of the salesman’s tone to be overbearing, and inclusion of relatable moments most readers have experienced all contribute to a call for action against the manipulators. Steinbeck strives to engender compassion for the migrants in order to influence the reader to take action against the corrupt corporations who are causing this plight.

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9. Through implementing slang that undermines the migrant workers, anaphora that emphasizes the harsh nature of work for the salesmen, and dialogue coupled with dramatic irony, Steinbeck demonstrates how cunning salesmen capitalize on the hardships of desperate and naïve migrant workers during the Great Depression.

10. In chapter seven of Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath, the use of anaphoras, alliteration, and imagery help to establish a cynical tone that captures the distressed minds and desperate circumstances resulting from the Dust Bowl migration. Through the repetition of prepositional phrases and fragments, Steinbeck manages to promptly set the bustling and complex scene of a car dealership desperately struggling to sell their vehicles to migrating families who cannot afford them. He uses alliteration to emphasize the aggressive and manipulative attitude of men who tried to make a living in a time of uncertainty, further highlighting the struggles and tensions experienced by those navigating life during the migratory period. Together, these literary devices express the bitter and despairing mood that defined and molded this period of history.

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11. Steinbeck’s use of fragments and anaphoras creates a frantic, paced tone that reflects the nature not only of the frequent car sales during the Great Depression, but the general lives and conditions of the migrants during this time. It shows both the necessity of the car salesmen to sell their cars and the desperation of the migrants to acquire any car they can get. Many parts of this chapter are structured very similarly to dialogue, which effectively conveys the tone of the speakers and invokes all three rhetorical appeals, pathos, ethos, and logos, in readers.

12. In chapter 7 of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck chooses to incorporate repetition in the form of anaphora to describe the setting of car lots. By weaving repetition into his writing, Steinbeck is able to indicate the norm of these car lots as cars were in such high demand with many people moving to California in search of work. Additionally, Steinbeck chooses to include fragment sentences into his writing, which effectively depict the sense of urgency that existed during this stressful time. Furthermore, the tone used by Steinbeck to represent the owner of the car lot is ruthless and harsh. This tone highlights the lack of empathy and compassion that existed during the struggles of the Great Depression.

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13. In order to raise awareness of Dust Bowl migrants’ exploitation, Steinbeck employs fragmented language, imagined and condensed monologue, and ironic repetition of signage, thereby revealing the ruthless tactics of car lot owners on unsuspecting migrants.

14. In his detailed delineation of used car lots in Chapter 7 of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck utilizes a variety of rhetorical choices including vivid imagery, colloquial language, and a frantic pace to portray the chaotic, desperate, and exploitative environment fostered by the salesmen and owners of the car lots. This grim depiction serves to highlight the predatory nature of the capitalist society in which the desperation of potential buyers, largely spurred by the Great Depression, is exploited for profit, painting a broader picture of a society consumed by greed and void of moral integrity.

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15. Throughout chapter seven of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck utilizes multiple rhetorical devices in order to characterize the car lots, as well as the people running them. Steinbeck utilizes oxymorons and hyperboles to illustrate the cruelty of the people selling these cars. Along with this, the use of asyndeton evokes a sense of urgency that was felt in these car lots. All in all, these devices come together in order to present the struggle felt by migrant workers at the hands of these car salesmen at this point in their journey west.

16. In a passage from Chapter 7 in The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, the author’s use of literary devices such as anaphoras, diction, sentence structure, imagery and tone creates a scenic description of the bustling car lots and salesman’s unsympathetic approach. The repeated anaphoras in the beginning of the passage emphasize the ubiquity of the used car lots, hinting at the competition between car lots and need to sell cars partly stemming from such. Additionally, the author’s informal diction further develops the aggressive and selfish tone of the salesman. Furthermore, the short and quick sentence structure allows readers to envision the environment of the hectic car lot. It also creates a sense of urgency from the salesman showing how they sold these high-demand cars.

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