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Sometimes they do something to you, Tommy. They hurt you. And you get mad. And then you get mean. And they hurt you again. And you get meaner, and meaner till you ain’t no boy or no man any more, but just a walking chunk a mean-mad. Did they hurt you like that, Tommy?
Ma Joad on the injustice of prisons, The Grapes of Wrath
Watched John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath. It’s No.23 on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies—10th Anniversary list.
I hadn’t read the book and knew none of the plot going into it. I found the movie compelling.
I had lots of mental connections with what Sarah Taber has shared about sharecropping.