The Similarity of Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath It's funny in life how things and people can often become one. For example, pets often resemble their owners. Perhaps in personality, or in a certain physical characteristic. Throughout the book, The Grapes of Wrath, there are chapters that intertwine with each other. For this assignment I chose chapters six and nine because I believe they are similar in quite notable ways. Both chapters six and nine talk about possessions and the importance and relevance they have in your life. Chapter six talks about how Muley can't leave the land because it's part of him, Casy also says, "A boy gets used to a place, it's hard to go there." p.69 Casy also says... "Muley's got a hold of something, and it's too big for him, and it's too big for me." p.66 What's more important or more relevant is when Muley gets so worked up, ("Those sons of bitches," and goes on to say "daddy came here fifty years ago. And I ain't going.") p.63-64 He also goes on to say that the land is not good on p. 64. Muley talks about wandering like a cemetery ghost. «I have been around those places with our forty: in a ravine I am a bush first time I fucked a girl. p.69 How his father was killed by a bull and his blood was still there tears. It's all there. It will always be there. No matter how cold and cruel the sun beats on the earth, no matter how much man or technology tears it apart. It will always be there. Chapter nine expresses similar ideas, only they talk about possessions not of land but of material things. "In the small houses the tenants sifted through their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and grandfathers." How can you leave a place that you have breathed all your life? How can you collect your beloved materials and sell them to someone who has no value for them? In the story they (I think “they” are Al and Ton or some other member of the Joad family) talk about some memories. For example on page 117 they say: “That plow, that harrow, do you remember that during the war we planted mustard?” These things mean a lot to them. Our lives are a fundamental part of what we own. “You're buying a little girl who braids