PRACTICE Complete the activity and answer the questions.
1. Analyze Complete the chart to analyze how Steinbeck uses story
elements to develop multiple themes.
LITERARY ELEMENT
Which details of the physical piles ofpossesions yous
Red dust of the form brods
Some people are burning the
setting are most important
in this excerpt?
What aspects of the cultural
and historical settings affect
the characters and plot?
TEXTUAL DETAILS
What conflicts do characters
face? How do different
characters respond?
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NOTEBOOK
INTERACTIVITY
THEMES
What truths about life or human
nature do these story elements
help to develop?
Theme 1: When, disgster strikes,
people make hard decision to
Survive