where does the title THE GRAPES OF WRATH come from?
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Per Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath\n\n"Steinbeck experienced a rough time coming up with a title for the epic. "The Grapes of Wrath", suggested by his wife, Carol, deemed more suitable than any of the names John himself could come up with. The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe:\n\n"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:\nHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;\nHe hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:\nHis truth is marching on."\n\nThis phrase originally comes from a passage from the Book of Revelation: "And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God" (14:19)."
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Read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck or watch the movie. \n\nThere was also a photographer who took a lot of pictures of farmers and their wives and kids.  they are very telling, the stress on the faces of these people.
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It's not clear where the donkey came from, but it's believed that in the 1828 campaign, Andrew Jackson's opponent started calling him "Andrew Jackass". Rather than rebelling, Jackson latched onto the name. \n\nThe image resurfaced in the 1830s and again in a political cartoon by Thomas Nast, which depicted "a live donkey kicking a dead lion."  A few years after that, Nast depicted the Republicans as an elephant stomping on the flimsy planks of the Democrats.\n\nNast's images tended to stick in the public's minds (he's the guy who also created our modern-day conception of Santa Claus), so the symbols stuck after that.
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This is what I found: "It sounds as if this expression for surviving or overcoming nearly insuperable obstacles ought to have a nautical origin, doesn’t it? But there’s no evidence to support that.\n\nIt appears in print around the beginning of the twentieth century. The first example I’ve found is from 1901, but there is a substantial set in the books and newspapers later in that decade, showing that it had by then become widely known. The first form that appears is hell and high water; the form you give, which is now standard, comes along several decades later, together with through hell and high water and variations.\n\nThe setting of many of the earliest examples strongly point to cattle ranching as the origin, in particular the driving of cattle to railheads in the mid West in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In 1939 Paul Wellman published a book with the title Trampling Herd: the Story of the Cattle Range in America in which he wrote: “ ‘In spite of hell and high water’ is a legacy of the cattle trail when the cowboys drove their horn-spiked masses of longhorns through high water at every river and continuous hell between.”\n\nAn article about an old-time cattleman that appeared in the Washington Post in November 1905 supports this: “He prospered in those palmy days until he became the largest cattle owner in the territory and felt able to take his regular blowout in St Louis, until 1884, when, between the alien land law, drought and rustlers, the “hell and high water of the cattlemen,” he ... walked out of the Kansas City stock yards a few hundred thousand dollars worse off and no cattle worth putting an iron on, much less pulling grass by hand to feed.”"
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The Pearl: Kino finds the pearl in answer to his prayer to help heal Coyotito's scorpion sting, and in Kino's frenzy to keep the pearl and survive, he ends up killing Coyotito.\n\nThe Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon's (Rosasharn's) baby, the hope of the future through the whole book, who is to be the firstborn of a new generation in California where the family hopes to find steady work rather than the same unlivable drudgery they have in Oklahoma, is stillborn because the Joads could not escape that poverty.\n\nOf Mice and Men: Because of the harshness of the life of itinerant farmworkers, Lennie does not recieve the help and comfort he needs, and accidentally kills Curly's wife. Thus, George is forced to kill Lennie, the person he swore he'd protect. \n\nCannery Row: Mack and the boys work to throw a party for Doc, but when Doc doesn't arrive, the party gets out of hand and Doc's home, laboratory, and possessions are destroyed. Also: Frankie's love for Doc, the only person who ever showed him any kind of nice treatment, becomes his downfall when Frankie steals a $75 clock for Doc and is arrested and sent to an institution.\nAlso: the tale of the first bouncer at the Bear Flag Restaurant, who killed himself when he believed that no one loved him, after he took whiskey to Mack and the boys and they still wouldn't accept him into their group.\n\nThere are more tragic elements in all these books. Just note everywhere that somebody tries to do something nice, or tries to better themselves, and it goes wrong.
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My home dictionary gives the origin as coming from the Latin word "historia".   The dictionary goes on to say, "probably from pictures adorning the windows of medieval buildings."\n\nThis makes me think of old European churches and castles, where 30-foot cathedrals would have stained glass picture windows of history or Biblical reference that told the complete story in a single picture.  Perhaps one story would sit on top of another on top of another, giving you different levels of stories.  Of course, what I'm saying now is just guessing, but I would consider it a well-educated guess.
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From one of the speeches in Henry VI part 2 (that's a Shakespeare play!)\n\nHere's the speech. The origin of Mum's the word comes in the third line:\n\n\n    Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;\n    Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!\n    Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:\n    The business asketh silent secrecy.\n    Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:\n    Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.\n    Yet have I gold flies from another coast;\n    I dare not say, from the rich cardinal\n    And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,\n    Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,\n    They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,\n    Have hired me to undermine the duchess\n    And buz these conjurations in her brain.\n    They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'\n    Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.\n    Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near\n    To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.\n    Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last\n    Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,\n    And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:\n    Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
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I believe it's originally from the movie "A Cry In the Dark" with Meryl Streep, when the dingos in Australia attacked the baby.  This was a very tearful movie.  But I must say, that in the Seinfield episode when "Elaine" said "The dingos ate your baby" to the obnoxious woman, with her Aussy accent...it was hilarious!
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The Hungarian translation of grapes (the fruit) is 'szőlő'.\nAbout pronunciation:\n'sz' -> 's' and 'ő' is like 'i' in the word "girl", or more correctly like 'eu' in the french word "feu"\nBtw: in some areas in Hungary it is told and written as szöllő ('ö' is pronunced exactly as like 'i' in the word "girl")
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Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) is the typical term, which is from the famous poem written by Thomas of Celano in the 13th century.
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1377, from Anglo-Norm. brocour "small trader," \nfrom Anglo-Fr. abrokur "retailer of wine, tapster," \nperhaps Port. alborcar "barter," but more likely O.Fr. brocheor, from brochier "to broach, tap, pierce (a keg)," from broche "pointed tool" (see broach (n.)), giving original sense of "wine dealer," hence "retailer, middleman, agent."
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Actually, it was the fruit. It originated in China and worked its way around the world until it was introduced in Europe, where its name was derived from the Persian word for the fruit. The town of Orange in France was also named for the fruit and the color was derived from the color of the skin.
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I don't know for sure if it originated there,but the Ancient Greeks ( B.C. ) made wine to trade for food...usually to barbarians so they could get a better deal after the barbarians were wasted.
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Think of what it takes to make beef stew. The cow is killed and chopped up into small pieces, then cooked. Kind of over killing someone. Making sure they are dead. Although people don't take it that seriously.\n\nWhen someone thinks they are better than others, they lookup in the air. I think it is so they don't have to look at the inferior person. \n\nI am not sure where "How do you like them apples" came from. It always seems to be in the context of revenge, getting even with someone. Perhaps it started with selling rotten apples to someone you don't like.
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Although Shakespeare does not answer this question in his play, the source on which he based the play–The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), by Arthur Brooke, does provide an answer: envy. According to Brooke, the ancestors of the Capulets and Montagues were esteemed, well-to-do aristocrats who wished to be the center of attention. Consequently, the Capulets were jealous of the Montagues, and vice versa. And so, Brooke says, a feud was born: \n\n     "Of grudging envy's root, black hate and rancour grew \n      As, of a little spark, oft riseth mighty fire."
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I cannot tell you what the Forbidden fruit exactly was, but nowhere in the Old Testament (which is where the story is from) is there any mention of it being an Apple.\n\nI think the idea of it being an apple came about due to paintings, usually from the renaissance, that depicted the scene and showed it as an apple. Why they chose to paint is as an apple, I don't know, but I am sure there are reasons, perhaps having to do with what fruit was availble in Europe. \n\nBut I could be wrong about the fruit in europe part :)\n\nOne last thing - I don't know what all the Christian denominations hold, but I think many religions view the forbidden fruit as a more spiritual entity then a physical one.
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LOL, its from Napolean Dynomite.  Its not a great insult, its just a funny movie line.  Man, the last answerer needs to lighten up a bit- and I say that as someone with a degree, froma family of people with degrees, many of which are advanced degrees.