Chapter 18

Steinbeck discusses several themes in this chapter:

1. Wealth is an artificial value,

2. Life and death are juxtaposed,

3. The Promised Land may not be all "milk and honey," and

4. Religion that is false or emotional is irrelevant.

Choose one of these themes and, using examples from the text to support your ideas, show how this theme was true not only in the novel, but also today. Do not repeat anyone else's examples.