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Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams | |
Background information | |
Also known as | Pharrell, Skateboard P, Sk8brd |
Born | April 5, 1973 |
Origin | Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. |
Genres | Soul, hip hop, R&B, funk, rock |
Occupations | Producer, musician, songwriter, singer, rapper, fashion designer, drummer |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, drums |
Years active | 1992–present |
Labels | Star Trak, Interscope, i am OTHER, Columbia Records |
Associated acts | Child Rebel Soldier, The Neptunes, N.E.R.D, Clipse, Common, Jay-Z, Mac Miller, MIKA, Snoop Dogg, T.I. |
Website | pharrellwilliams.com |
Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), also known simply as Pharrell, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, fashion designer, and drummer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing soul, hip hop and R&B music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of rock, funk, and hip hop band N.E.R.D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his first single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his first album In My Mind in 2006.[1]
As part of The Neptunes, Williams has produced numerous hit singles for various musicians.[2] Williams has earned four Grammy Awards, two of which as part of The Neptunes. He is also the co-founder of the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Clothing.
Early life[edit]
Pharrell Williams was born on April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia,[3][4] the oldest of three sons of Carolyn, a teacher, and Pharaoh Williams, a handyman.[5] He met Chad Hugo in a seventh-grade summer band camp where Williams played the keyboards and drums and Hugo played tenor saxophone. They were also both members of a marching band; Williams played the snare drum while Hugo was student conductor.[6][7] Williams attended Princess Anne High School where he played in the school band; there he got the name Skateboard P.[8] Hugo attended Kempsville High School.
In the 1990s, Hugo and Williams formed a four-piece "R&B type" group, The Neptunes, with friends Shay Haley and Mike Etheridge. They later entered a high school talent show where they were discovered by Teddy Riley, whose studio was next to Princess Anne High School.[9] After graduating from high school, the group signed with Riley.[10]
1992–1997: Career beginnings[edit]
Through working with Riley, Williams went on to write a verse and help produce for Wreckx-N-Effect's 1992 hit "Rump Shaker".[11] That same year, he also performed a small rap solo on SWV's second hit, "Right Here (UK Remix)". In 1994, Hugo and Williams had established themselves as a production duo under their old name "The Neptunes", and produced "Tonight's The Night" from Blackstreet's self-titled album. Over the next three years they continued to produce occasionally, and some of the results had little resemblance to the Neptunes sound later. However, some like Mase's 1997 song "Lookin' at Me" from his album Harlem World, and the most definite beginning of the distinctive "Neptunes sound", came with N.O.R.E's "Superthug" in 1998, reaching number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and gaining them widespread attention for the first time. In 1999, a mutual friend introduced Pharrell to Kelis, and their resulting collaboration produced her first album Kaleidoscope.
1998–2004: The Neptunes[edit]
At this point The Neptunes were gaining a wide fanbase and audience. In 2001, The Neptunes produced Britney Spears' single, "I'm a Slave 4 U" gaining their first worldwide number one.[12] The same year, N.E.R.D, consisting of Williams, Hugo and Haley, released their first album, In Search of..., in Europe, where the first Kelis album was better received. The album sounded very much like their previous production work; the group decided that they should make their work as N.E.R.D sound different, and re-recorded the album with the rock band Spymob. Williams and Hugo met rap duo Clipse in Virginia Beach in 1993, where they were signed to Arista Records through Williams' Star Trak Entertainment imprint.[13][14]
Then in 2002 their re-produced album was released worldwide, and The Neptunes reached number one in the U.S. with Nelly's single, "Hot in Herre". In August of the same year, The Neptunes were named "Producers of the Year" at both The Source Awards and the Billboard Music Awards. Clipse released their commercial debut album Lord Willin' in August 2002. The album started at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number four on the Billboard 200, fueled by its first two singles, "Grindin'" and "When the Last Time", which peaked at number 34 and number 19 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Neptunes released a self-credited album called The Neptunes Present... Clones in 2003, with songs and remixes from various artists. This topped the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums Chart. The Neptunes and Williams specifically were also kept in public eye largely due to ties with Jay-Z, producing several hit singles for him and two tracks on his The Black Album. The track "Frontin'" was a big hit (the 34th biggest of 2003 according to Billboard). A survey in August 2003 found the Neptunes produced almost 20 percent of songs played on British radio at the time, a survey in the US had them at 43 percent.[6] The same year, The Neptunes remixed the Daft Punk song Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger for the duo's poorly received remix album Daft Club. The track also had a brief rap section performed by Williams.[15]
N.E.R.D's second funk rock-oriented album, Fly or Die, released in March 2004. Williams' rock credentials were further bolstered by his appearance at the 2004 Grammy Awards, performing The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" on drums with Sting, Dave Matthews, and Vince Gill. Williams received two Grammy Awards that night, one for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, and another for Best Pop Vocal Album for his work on Justin Timberlake's hit album Justified. They also gained their first UK number one, again with Nelly, and Flap Your Wings.
2005–2009: First album and collaborations[edit]
On September 9, 2005, Williams performed the opening single from his first solo album In My Mind, "Can I Have It Like That", featuring Gwen Stefani. The single did poorly in the US, reaching only number 48. It fared better in the UK, reaching number three. Between then and the July 25, 2006 release of "In My Mind", he released "Angel" (in Europe only), and later "Number One" with Kanye West. Several songs leaked to the internet before the album release, most notably "Mamacita" featuring Daddy Yankee, which was subsequently cut from the final version. "That Girl" featuring Snoop Dogg was the final single.
In 2006, Williams produced Clipse's second album Hell Hath No Fury. Most critics labeled the album Williams's best production in years, and put the duo back in the charts.[16] A year later, Williams collaborated with Madonna, on the song "Hey You", which was available for download on the MSN website. 25 cents for each of the first one million downloads was donated to the Alliance for Climate Protection, in support of Live Earth.[17] Later that year, Williams performed songs at the Concert for Diana on July 1, 2007. Then, on July 7, 2007, he performed at the Brazilian leg of Live Earth in Rio de Janeiro.
A second album, titled Out of My Mind, was recorded with his newly formed band "The Yessirs" featuring Questlove of The Roots. However, Williams' record label did not think that a companion album to the first would sell well.[18] He also produced Beyoncé's version of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend". He then wrote and produced "Why Should I Be Sad" on Britney Spears' fifth studio album, Blackout. He also produced two songs from The Hives album, The Black and White Album, titled "Well All Right!" and "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.".
In April 2008, Madonna released her eleventh album, Hard Candy, which featured vocals from Williams and production from The Neptunes on several tracks. In June, an article in NME revealed that Williams was very interested in producing The Strokes' fourth album.[19] Later that year, Williams worked on a remix album for Maroon 5's Call & Response.[20]
Williams continued working with a variety of artists, including Shakira on the songs 'Did It Again', 'Why Wait', 'Good Stuff' and 'Long Time' for her sixth studio album, She Wolf.[21] In September 2009, Williams was credited as a co-writer and producer of the song "Fresh Out the Oven" for Jennifer Lopez.[22] It was released as a buzz single from Lopez's seventh studio album Love? The following month, Williams made a guest appearance on French indie/electronic rapper Uffie's first album, which arrived in early 2010.[23] In late 2009, Williams worked with the rapper Game on his fourth studio album, The R.E.D. Album.
2010–2012: Despicable Me, Nothing and other collaborations[edit]
In July 2010, Williams composed the soundtrack to the movie Despicable Me at the Hollywood Studio Symphony.[24] In October 2010, Williams and his group N.E.R.D supported Gorillaz on their Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour. On the tour, Damon Albarn recorded a song with Williams but this was not featured on Gorillaz's album, The Fall, but it may appear on a future album.[15] The following month, N.E.R.D released their fourth studio album Nothing through Pharrell's label Star Trak. In late 2011, Williams worked on three tracks for Mike Posner's second album Sky High.[25]
In 2011, Williams collaborated with singer/composer Adam Lambert, co-writing two tracks for Lambert's album "Trespassing", which was released in May 2012, including the title track and "Kickin' In".
In 2012, it was announced on Lupe Fiasco's website that he and Lupe will work on a collaborative album and work on Waka Flocka Flame's album Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family.[citation needed]
He has also collaborated with Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller on the "Pink Slime" EP. The first track, "Onaroll" was followed by "Glow". It was produced by Pharrell, with vocals from Mac Miller.
Williams composed and produced the music for the 84th Academy Awards alongside composer Hans Zimmer.[26] He is also collaborating with the singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus on her new album and composed the new intro music for Chelsea Lately in 2012. He later contributed four tracks to The Game's California Republic mixtape called "When My Niggas Come Home" and "It Must be Tough"; produced two tracks on Usher's 2012 seventh studio album, Looking 4 Myself, titled "Twisted" and "Hot Thing";[27] collaborated with Mika on his new track "Celebrate"; co-produced the tracks "Sweet Life" and "Golden Girl" from Frank Ocean's debut album Channel Orange; and is working with Solange Knowles on her third studio album.
2013-present: Second studio album and collaborations[edit]
Pharrell featured on Daft Punk's fourth studio album Random Access Memories on songs "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself to Dance". In addition, Williams contributed to Azealia Banks' upcoming debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste, featuring on the song "ATM Jam."[28][29]
Williams penned three new original songs, included alongside composer Heitor Pereira's score, for the sequel Despicable Me 2. These were "Just A Cloud Away", "Happy", and "Scream" (featuring Cee Lo Green). His two original songs from the first film were also reprised on the soundtrack - "Despicable Me" and "Fun, Fun, Fun".[30]
He also participated in the drummer sessions of the soundtrack of Man of Steel by Hans Zimmer.[31]
In March 2013, Pharrell appeared alongside T.I. on Robin Thicke's hit single "Blurred Lines". The song has been a worldwide hit, has peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and has also reached number one in 13 more countries including the United Kingdom and Germany, making it Pharrell's third Billboard Hot 100 number one single.[32][33] [34] On June 29, 2013, Pharrell became the 12th artist in the chart's history to simultaneously hold the number one and two positions with "Blurred Lines" and "Get Lucky" respectively.[35]
By July 2013 there had only been 137 singles in UK chart history to have achieved one million sales in the UK, that month Pharrell scored two million-sellers with Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Blurred Lines.[36]
In August 2013, Busta Rhymes talked about an unreleased "documentary album" by Pharrell where he talks about "inner-city strife and hardship".[37]
In November 2013, Pharrell released the first 24-hour music video to his Despicable Me 2 collaboration song, "Happy". Guest appearances included Magic Johnson, Steve Carrell, Jimmy Kimmel, Jamie Foxx, Steve Martin, Odd Future, Miranda Cosgrove, Janelle Monáe, and many others.[38]
It was announced in December 2013 that Williams had been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year.[39] In the same month, a press release from Columbia Records announced that Pharrell had signed a contract with the label and is releasing an album in 2014, featuring single "Happy" from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack.[40]
Musical style[edit]
Williams has stated that he does not have any direct influences,[41] but has expressed his admiration for several musicians, including Michael Jackson, J Dilla, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Rakim and Q-Tip.[41][42] Williams explained that A Tribe Called Quest's 1990 album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, caused a "turning point" in his life, which "made me see that music was art".[42]
Business ventures[edit]
Pharrell co-founded the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footwear. He has a boutique store in New York City on West Broadway.
In 2008, Pharrell co-designed a series of jewelry ("Blason") and glasses for Louis Vuitton.[43] He has also worked on furniture with Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin and a French manufacturer, Domeau & Pérès. One of his works, a molded plastic seat with human legs, was created because he "wanted to know what it was like to be in love." The chair depicts a sexual scene with a pair of female legs and male legs.
In 2009, Pharrell unveiled a collaborative sculpture with Takashi Murakami at Art Basel, which spoke to the metaphor of value.[44]
In May 2011, it was announced that Williams would serve as Creative Director of KarmaloopTV alongside founder and CEO Greg Selkoe and former AMC president Katie McEnroe.[45]
On August 1, 2011, Williams launched his new YouTube channel, i am OTHER as part of YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative.[46]
Williams will co-compose The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Hans Zimmer, Johnny Marr, Michael Einziger and David A. Stewart.[47][48]
Personal life[edit]
Williams married his long-time girlfriend, model/designer Helen Lasichanh, in October 2013.[49] They have a son, Rocket Man Williams, born in November 2008.[50] The Despicable Me song "Rocket's Theme" was written in honour of his son.[51]
In 2005, Williams was voted "Best Dressed Man in the World" by Esquire.[52] He is a fan of the science fiction series Star Trek,[53] as indicated by his consistent use of the Vulcan salute to signify his label name, Star Trak. He also enjoys the works of the late astronomer and science lecturer Carl Sagan, whom he calls "a genius".[54] Williams is a skateboarder and has a half-pipe inside his home.[55]
Williams is building a $35 million afterschool center in his hometown Virginia Beach.[56] His charity From One Hand To Another is a foundation developed for youth between the ages of 7 and 20 in at risk communities throughout the country.[57]
In an interview for the magazine GQ Style (Autumn/Winter 2013), Pharrell described his undogmatic religious views: "On paper I'm a Christian, but really I'm a Universalist."
- In My Mind (2006)
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2011 | "Despicable Me" (with Heitor Pereira) | Best Music in a Feature Production | Nominated |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2013 | "Himself" | Producer of the Year | Nominated |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2007 | In My Mind | International Hip-Hop/R&B Artist/Group of the Year | Nominated |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2003 | Nellyville (as producer) | Album of the Year | Nominated |
2004 | Justified (as producer) | Nominated | |
Best Pop Vocal Album | Won | ||
"Frontin'" (with Jay-Z) | Best Rap/Sung Collaboration | Nominated | |
"Beautiful" (with Snoop Dogg & Charlie Wilson) | Nominated | ||
Best Rap Song | Nominated | ||
"Excuse Me Miss" (with Jay-Z) | Nominated | ||
The Neptunes | Producer of the Year | Won | |
2005 | "Drop It Like It's Hot" (with Snoop Dogg) | Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group | Nominated |
Best Rap Song | Nominated | ||
2006 | Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (as producer) | Album of the Year | Nominated |
The Emancipation of Mimi (as producer) | Nominated | ||
The Neptunes | Producer of the Year | Nominated | |
"Hollaback Girl" (as producer) | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
2007 | In My Mind | Best Rap Album | Nominated |
"Money Maker" (with Ludacris) | Best Rap Song | Won | |
2013 | Channel Orange (as producer) | Album of the Year | Nominated |
2014 | Himself | Producer of the Year | Pending |
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (as producer) | Album of the Year | Pending | |
Random Access Memories (as featured artist) | Pending | ||
"Get Lucky" (with Daft Punk) | Record of the Year | Pending | |
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance | Pending | ||
"Blurred Lines" (with Robin Thicke & T.I.) | Pending | ||
Record of the Year | Pending |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2007 | "Himself" | Best International Male | Nominated |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2006 | "Himself" | Best Male | Nominated |
Best R&B | Nominated |
Year | Recipient | Award | Result |
2013 | "Blurred Lines" (with Robin Thicke & T.I.) | Best Collaboration | Nominated |
Best Male Video | Nominated | ||
Best Song of the Summer | Nominated | ||
Video of the Year | Nominated |
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- ^ "The Oscars: Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams know the score for the telecast -- they wrote it". Los Angeles Times. 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ^ "Usher Hits The Studio With Pharrell, Jim Jonsin & Diplo". This Is RnB. November 6, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- ^ Banks, Azealia. "https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/331548960143601664". Twitter. "Single #2 is called "ATM JAM" and it's featuring @Pharrell ! !"
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- ^ "Man Of Steel Soundtrack - Percussion - Hans Zimmer". YouTube. 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
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Loux, Stilson Shine for Texas A&M
David Rawnsley
Saturday, March 20, 2010
All the scouts in the stands at the Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M match up Friday night in College Station could talk about was the impending weather. With good reason, too. Theres been a Texas size gully washer here on Saturday morning, with winds up to 40 mph and temps in the 30's following the front.
Feels like Nebraska….must almost be time to go home.
When the attention was on the field, the scouts and 4,006 Aggie fans saw a crisp, fairly well played 6-3 victory for A&M in the Big 12 opener for both teams. Tech fell to 8-11 overall, while A&M raised its record to 14-3.
While I knew junior RHP Barrett Loux was starting for the Aggies, my hope was that I would get to see hard throwing sophomore RHP John Stilson out of the bullpen. As sometimes happens, things worked out perfectly. Loux pitched the first 5 2/3 innings, striking out 10 Tech hitters (his third straight double figure strikeout game, giving him 48 K's in only 27 innings) before leaving after throwing 104 pitches. He raised his record to 3-1 on the season with an outstanding 1.29 ERA.
Stilson then came in from the bullpen and threw the final 3 1/3 innings, striking out five more Tech hitters. The 6-3, 190 lb transfer from Texarkana JC is establishing himself as perhaps the most dominant pitcher in college baseball this spring. Stilson is now 4-0, 1.04 with 3 saves. In 25 innings he's allowed only 8 hits and 7 walks while striking out 39 hitters.
Loux and Stilson's dominance is reflective of the entire A&M staff, which has a 2.25 ERA on the season with 185 K's in 152 innings. Their bullpen had a streak of 37 consecutive scoreless innings earlier in the year. Freshman RHP Michael Wacha (2-0, 0.40, 1 SV, 22 IP/33 K) has pitched just as well if not better than Loux and Stilson.
Scouting Reports
Barrett Loux:
Loux is a mature 6-5, 230 lb right hander with a very strong lower half but loose and easy athletic actions. He has a full arm circle and shows the ball a bit in back but he comes through clean and quick from a high ¾'s release point that produces a very good downhill angle to the plate. Loux had elbow surgery last summer to clean up some bone spurs but his delivery and arm action aren't the type that will make scouts worry at all about future injury. He throws a bit cross body on release, which works well for him. Loux's fastball was up to 94 mph last night and never dropped below 91 the entire game, with his last two fastballs registering 93 mph. It's pretty straight and didn't have the heavy sinking action that I've heard it has at times but the downhill angle really is a plus for Loux. Early in the game Loux threw some 83 mph sliders and low 80's change ups and tried hard to establish the change up especially. I'd like to see him throw the change a little less firmly as hitters' timing wasn't affected much. About the middle of the game, Loux started getting a rhythm with his 76-78 mph downer curveball and got many of his 10 K's on this pitch, including striking out the side in the 5
. It's a solid pro level pitch that he commanded well. I was impressed by Loux's ability to mix pitches and repeat his delivery. Throwing 93 mph after 100 pitches was certainly another plus. The minus side was the lack of fastball life and the present below average quality of his slider and change up, although they were admittedly his third and fourth best pitches. Based on this outing I can see Loux as a second half of the first round type of pick, with teams in the early comp round getting really excited about his maybe sliding down a bit to their area of the draft.
John Stilson:
This is the first year that Stilson has concentrated primarily on pitching, although he has still started three games at shortstop for the Aggies. He was a three-sport star in high school in Texarkana, TX, and was the starting shortstop for Texarkana JC last year while also going 12-1, 2.44 on the mound. He was drafted by the Twins in the 19
round of the 2009 draft. Stilson's delivery, to put it mildly, makes you want to say "Wow…that interesting". It's high energy with a pretty severe head jerk and lots of recoil after release. I think the only way that Stilson can get away with it and repeat it well enough to throw strikes is that he is such a good athlete. Of course, all hitters are seeing are arms and legs flying around and it has to be very deceptive. Stilson's stuff, also to put it mildly, makes you want to say "Wow….that's awesome". He sat between 94 and 98 mph and it wasn't your normal straight high velocity fastball. It had some arm side running action and when Stilson threw to his glove side the ball just ran away from right handed hitters. Stilson's 83 mph slider was twisty and inconsistent, although it flashed some bite and to his credit he tried a couple of change ups, which wasn't a pitch he looked too comfortable throwing by looking at his body language after he threw the ball. Stilson will definitely need work developing a true slider, something that he could probably throw in the upper 80's, but his deception and sheer velocity are enough to overmatch most hitters. The 2011 class is pretty loaded with top half of the first round talent but Stilson's name certainly belongs in that company.
Most of my attention was on the pitchers but two senior position players warrant mention.
A&M's Brodie Greene is well known to most college baseball fans. He was the All-Big 12 first team second baseman last year and until yesterday was playing centerfield this spring. He started his first game of the season at shortstop in place of the slumping Adam Smith (.188, 6 E's) and is one of those type of athletes who can play every position on the field. Greene is an aggressive hitter (.426-2-16, 6 SB's) with bat speed and running speed and should be among the better senior sign type drafts in the country.
Tech's Joey Kenworthy stands out because of his diminutive 5-5, 160 lb frame but this young man can play. A left handed hitter, Kenworthy accounted for Tech's first two runs with a home run off Loux and later squared up a hard line drive to centerfield. He was acrobatic at shortstop, although his arm strength is way short for that level professionally. Kenworthy can definitely play pro ball despite his size and reminds me of Chris Cates, the 5-3 shortstop in the Twins organization and graduate of Louisville.
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Summary of the Novel
Tom Joad, a prison parolee, meets Jim Casy, a preacher who has given up his calling. They go to Tom's home looking for his family, but the Joad farm and all those around it are deserted. They are told the Joads are living with Tom's Uncle John. Arriving at Uncle John's house, they learn the family has lost their farm and are making preparations to sell their belongings and move to California in search of promised work.
With Casy accompanying them, the Joads encounter many hardships on the road west, and the family crumbles. Grampa dies the first night he is separated from his beloved land. Granma dies while they are crossing the Arizona desert. Noah and Connie give up and leave the family. The further west they go, the more resistant and unfriendly the people are.
In California the family goes from camp to camp in a futile search for work and their living conditions worsen. Jim Casy organizes a strike against the unfair low wages being paid and is killed. Tom kills Jim's murderer and goes into hiding. He leaves the family to continue Casy's work. The Joads move to a cottonfield where the pay is better.
Rose of Sharon delivers a stillborn baby during a fearful storm. The family has to abandon their boxcar home to escape the resultant flood. Taking refuge in a hillside barn, they discover a young boy and his near-dead, starving father who is saved when Rose feeds him from her milk-filled breasts.
When Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath, the United States was suffering through a severe economic depression. Everywhere people lost their savings, homes, and means of earning a living. Especially hard hit were the farming areas of the Midwest. Poor farming practices had depleted the soil, and it became less capable of supporting the individual families who farmed their small sections of it. Also, the markets and prices for the crops declined. Agriculture markedly changed in the area as a result. Small farms were consolidated into larger, and more profitable units. Tractors, other machines, and day laborers replaced mules and family labor. Independent farm life, which had developed the area and dominated it during the 1800s, dwindled. In the mid-1930s there were severe droughts and erosion of the dry soil by strong winds. This created a "Dust Bowl" in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado. The small farmers, now tenants and sharecroppers, were uprooted from the homes and farms which had belonged to their families for many years. By the tens of thousands these victims of depression, drought, and dust headed west to seek a better life in the fertile fields of California. They found themselves as much victims there. Work was scarce, wages were low, and they were resented, resisted, and repressed by the residents. Their attempts to better their lives were branded as Communism, a system much disliked and feared by many Americans of the time.
Reaction to The Grapes of Wrath was immediate, and ran to extremes of praise and condemnation. One noted critic said the book might do for its time what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for its, because it so strongly exposed social injustice and called for social redress; but many people denounced it as Communist propaganda. People in California and Oklahoma charged it was full of exaggerated lies about the conditions and treatment of the migrants in their respective states. In California, one writer refuted point-by-point what he labeled the book's inaccuracies. A Congressman from Oklahoma denounced it, on behalf of the people of his state, on the floor of the House of Representatives as "a dirty, lying, filthy manuscript-a lie, a damnable lie, a black, infernal creation of a twisted, distorted mind."
Copies of the book were symbolically burned in a town in Illinois by order of the Library Board, even as the librarian noted that the waiting list for it was longer than for any other book in history. The burning order came in the same week the book had its largest sales in seven months. Indeed, the general public embraced The Grapes of Wrath. It became a best-seller shortly after publication and has been in print and widely read continuously since that time. The story was also made into a successful major motion picture starring Henry Fonda. A crowning accolade for the novel was the award of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for fiction to Steinbeck.
List of Characters
Tom Joad—A farmer's son. He has just been paroled from prison and joins his family for a trip to California when he learns they have lost their farm.
Pa Joad—Called "Old Tom." A dispossessed tenant farmer. He hopes to find farm work in California.
Ma Joad—Tom's mother, the mainstay of the family. Her main goals are to keep the family strong, fed, and together.
Grampa and Granma Joad—Pa Joad's elderly parents. They settled the 40-acre farm in Oklahoma from which the family is now uprooted.
Noah Joad—Tom's quiet and slow-witted older brother.
Al Joad—Pa and Ma's third son, a 16-year-old whose foremost interests are girls and cars.
Ruthie and Winfield Joad—At 12 and 10 years of age respectively, they are the youngest daughter and son in the Joad family.
Rose of Sharon—Tom's young, newly married sister who is expecting a child, and yearns for a good home for it.
Connie—Rose of Sharon's equally young and ambitious husband.
Uncle John—Pa's withdrawn and brooding brother.
Jim Casy—A friend of the family and former preacher who joins with the Joads for the trip to California.
Muley Graves—A neighbor of the Joad's who has also been dispossessed but hides and lives like an animal on his land because he cannot bring himself to leave it.
Ivy and Sarah Wilson—A migrant couple who join the Joads and travel with them after the Joads give them help on the road to California.
Jim Rawley—The manager of a clean and orderly camp provided by the government to better the migrants' living conditions.
Ezra Huston—The chairman of the central committee by means of which the migrants govern themselves in the camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright—A couple who share a boxcar home near a cotton field with the Joads.
Aggie Wainwright—The Wainwrights' daughter who becomes engaged to Al Joad.
Estimated Reading Time
The average person should be able to read the entire novel in a total of approximately 12 to 18 hours.
It is suggested that the reading of the novel be divided into the three blocks indicated. These three blocks divide the story into what happens in Oklahoma, on the journey west, and after the migrants arrive in California.
If desired, the reading can be further broken down into the six sub-units listed. In this study guide, study questions and suggested essay topics follow the summary and discussion of each of the six sub-units.
BLOCK ONE: LEAVING OKLAHOMA Reading Time: 4–6 hrs.
Unit I Chapters 1–6: 2–3 hrs.
Unit II Chapters 7–11: 2–3 hrs.
BLOCK TWO: THE JOURNEY WEST Reading Time: 4–6 hrs.
Unit III Chapters 12–16: 2–3 hrs.
Unit IV Chapters 17–21: 2–3 hrs.
BLOCK THREE: LIFE IN CALIFORNIA Reading Time: 4–6 hrs.
Unit V Chapters 22–26: 3–4 hrs.
Unit VI Chapters 27–30: 1–2 hrs.
Summary (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck vents his anger against a capitalistic society that was capable of plunging the world into an economic depression, but he does not exonerate the farmers who have been driven from the Dust Bowl of the midwestern and southwestern United States. He deplores their neglect of the land that resulted in the Dust Bowl and which helped to exacerbate the Great Depression.
The book is interestingly structured. Interspersed among its chapters are frequent interchapters, vignettes that have little direct bearing on the novel's main narrative. These interchapters contain the philosophical material of the book, the allegories such as that of the turtle crossing the road. As the animal makes its tedious way across the dusty thoroughfare, drivers swerve to avoid hitting it. One vicious driver, however, aims directly for it, clearly intending to squash it. Because this driver's aim is not accurate, he succeeds only in nicking the corner of the turtle's carapace, catapulting it to the side of the road it was trying to reach. Once the dust settles and the shock wears off, the turtle emerges and continues on its way, dropping as it does a grain of wheat from the folds of its skin. When the rains come, this grain will germinate; this is Steinbeck's intimation of hope.
As the narrative opens, Tom Joad has been released from a prison term he served for having killed someone in self-defense. On his way home, he falls...
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Summary (Identities & Issues in Literature)
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's masterpiece, is a starkly realistic rendition of the Depression-era struggle of an Oklahoma farm family forced to move to California in order to find employment. The family's dilemma represents that of all rural, working-class households in the Midwest and West during an age of increasing mechanization for upper-class, capitalistic profit. In addition, Steinbeck's female characters, especially, convey his message of working-class unity.
The Joads are typical 1930's tenant farmers, forced from home because "one man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families." Reading advertisements of work available in California, the Joads buy an old truck for the journey. The trip quickly kills lifelong Oklahoman Grandpa Joad, and Grandma Joad dies in the Nevada desert. Throughout, the impoverished Joads are victimized repeatedly, microcosmically representative of the entire capital exploitation system underlying the Great Depression.
Ma Joad's determination, however, helps the Joads reach California. They then learn of their further victimization by machines. The work advertisements were mass-produced and deliberately overdisseminated to entice excess workers, thereby depressing wages even further and creating widespread unemployment in California. Fortunately, the family finds shelter in a government-operated, socialist-style cooperative camp, where a central committee makes...
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Summary (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
Tom Joad, Jr., is released from the Oklahoma state penitentiary where he served a sentence for killing a man in self-defense. He travels homeward through a region made barren by drought and dust storms. On the way, he meets Jim Casy, a former preacher; the pair go together to the home of Tom's family. They find the Joad place deserted. While Tom and Casy are wondering what happened, Muley Graves, a die-hard tenant farmer, ccomes by and discloses that all the families in the neighborhood have gone to California or are going. Tom's folks, Muley says, went to a relative's place to prepare for going west. Muley is the only sharecropper to stay behind. All over the southern Midwest states, farmers, no longer able to make a living because of land banks, weather, and machine farming, sold or were forced out of the farms they tenanted. Junk dealers and used-car salesmen profiteer on them. Thousands of families take to the roads leading to the promised land: California.
Tom and Casy find the Joads at Uncle John's place, all busy with preparations for their trip to California. Assembled for the trip are Pa and Ma Joad; Noah, their developmentally disabled son; Al, the adolescent younger brother of Tom and Noah; Rose of Sharon, Tom's sister, and her husband, Connie; the Joad children, Ruthie and Winfield; and Granma and Grampa Joad. Al has bought an ancient truck to take them West. The family asks Casy to go with them. The night before they start, they...
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Chapters 1–11: Leaving Oklahoma
The Grapes of Wrath follows the trials and tribulations of the Joad family as they leave the dust bowl of Oklahoma for a better life in California. The narrative begins as Tom Joad hitchhikes across the Oklahoma panhandle to his parents' forty-acre farm. Tom has just been paroled after serving four years in prison for manslaughter. He meets ex-preacher Jim Casy, who is alone and singing by the side of the road. Casy recounts his own fall, his doubts about the saving grace of religion, and his growing sense of a collective human spirit. When the two men arrive at the Joad farm, they find it abandoned. A neighbor, Muley Graves, explains how the banks have repossessed the family farms, forcing people to leave. The smell of their dinner brings the sheriff, and the men have to hide in the fields.
At the house of Tom's Uncle John, Tom and Casy meet up with the Joads: Granma; Grampa; Ma; Pa; Noah, the eldest son, who is slightly crazy; Al, sixteen, who is a "tomcat" and a mechanic; Rose of Sharon who is four months pregnant and married to Connie Rivers; and Ruthie and Winfield, Tom's younger sister and brother. The Joads have seen handbills announcing work in California and are preparing for their departure by selling their possessions, slaughtering their pigs, and loading a secondhand car. Casy asks to go along and is accepted into the family. When the time comes to leave, Grampa refuses to...
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Tom Joad: the protagonist, an Oklahoma tenant farmer's son
Jim Casy: a former preacher who now questions traditional beliefs as he observes human behavior
Muley Graves: a farmer reduced to homeless poverty when he loses his family's land through foreclosure
Chapter 1
When the last of light rains ended in early May, the land began to dry up. Weeds changed their color to protect themselves from the harsh sun and the corn faded and dried up. The few drops of rain that fell in June gave no help. Animal hooves and vehicle wheels broke the dry dirt crust and formed dust. Winds drove the dust until it mixed with the air and the sky was dark. When the winds subsided, the dust settled and covered the earth like a blanket. Farm men stood silently and looked at the ruined corn blown down by the wind and covered by the dust. Their women watched the silent men, and when they saw anger in the men's faces they knew there was still hope as long as the dust did not break the spirit of the men.
Chapter 2
A man dressed in new, but cheap, clothes sees a large truck parked at a roadside cafe. Despite the "No Riders" sign on the truck he asks the driver for a ride. He points out that some drivers are "good guys" even if their bosses make them carry the sign. The driver lets him into the truck, around the corner out of...
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Chapters 7-11 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Pa Joad: one of many dispossessed "Dust Bowl" farmers who dream of a better life in California
Ma Joad: his strong wife who is devoted to preserving her family
Grampa Joad: the elderly, senile patriarch of the family
Granma Joad: his wife who is a religious fanatic
Noah Joad: the eldest son who moves slowly and says little
Al Joad: the Joad's teenage son who is good at working on cars
Uncle John: Pa Joad's brother, a widower
Ruthie and Winfield Joad: Pa and Ma's youngest children
Rose of Sharon: the Joad's married and pregnant daughter
Connie: Rose of Sharon's husband
Chapter 7
Because there was more profit and demand for used cars and trucks, salesmen were selling them to the dispossessed tenants as quickly as possible. The tenants knew little about cars and the salesmen were able to cheat them on price, interest rates, and quality. They disguised the poor condition of the vehicles in many ways and ignored complaints. They knew the tenants would be driving the vehicles away from the area anyway, so they would get no complaints.
Chapter 8
Muley wakes Tom and Casy before dawn and says he is leaving. Tom and Casy start walking to Uncle John's house. On the way Tom tells Casy that Uncle John has been rather strange...
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Chapter 12-16 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Ivy Wilson: a farmer from Kansas, headed west, whose car has broken down along the highway
Sarah Wilson: his wife, who shows the strain of travel
Chapter 12
Highway 66 was the main cross-country road running through Oklahoma and on west. On its long way it crossed mountains, dusty plains, more mountains, the arid southwestern desert, and one final range of mountains before reaching the fertile green valleys of California. The migrants streamed from their former homes to the north and south of it and turned westward, forming small caravans of whatever vehicles they had been able to obtain.
When they needed parts to keep the vehicles moving, people along the way tried to take advantage of their plight and raised the price of the parts. If they charged much more than the four dollars a tire was worth, they considered it business. If the migrant took it for nothing, however, he was a thief. So the migrants would go on and try to make an old tire do until they could get a fairer price. Many times they had to walk long distances to get a needed part.
Chapter 13
After driving awhile, the Joads have to stop so Granma can go to the bathroom. They realize they have not brought any water with them, and Al says the truck needs gas also so they will stop at the next station and get both. The first thing the station...
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Chapters 17-21 Summary and Analysis
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Floyd Knowles: a migrant having trouble finding work
Chapter 17
Day by day the migrants moved westward along the highway, clustering each night where there was water and company. Each camp became a temporary world for the night and "twenty families became one family." A form of self-government grew up. Out of the respect for law and order they brought from their old homes, the migrants established rules of conduct and of rights among themselves, and the rules became laws. Any violator of these laws was expelled from the group. Evenings were spent in making friends and talking about their homes and their future. There might even be some singing, but mainly they rested to be ready for the next day's travel.
Chapter 18
At the Arizona border a guard asks the Joads where they are going and how long they will be in Arizona, and he tells them they had better keep moving. They drive on and stop just across the Colorado River, the California border. The first person they talk to warns them a cop will be down to "look them over." They decide they need some rest before crossing the desert ahead.
The men go to the river and sit in its coolness. A man and boy join them. The man says they are on their way back because he can't make a living in California. When Pa asks about work there, the man describes poor conditions. He...
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Chapters 22-26 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Jim Rawley: the manager of a camp where the migrants govern themselves and living conditions are much better
Ezra Huston: a migrant who heads the Central Committee, the group of people who regulate conduct in the camp
Chapter 22
The Joads go to a camp provided for the migrants by the Federal government where there is one vacant spot they can occupy. Tom learns that cops can't come into this camp unless there is major trouble or they have a warrant, and the migrants elect their own police and make their own laws.
The next morning Tom meets the Wallaces. They invite him to breakfast and offer to take him to a farm where they have found work digging ditches. The farmer, his land mortgaged, has to pay less than he has been paying or be in trouble with the Farmer's Association and the bank who dictate the wages he pays. Being sympathetic to the Okies, he secretly warns them some people will start trouble at the camp dance on Saturday to give the deputies an excuse to enter and break up the camp. The landowners fear the migrants are getting used to being treated too well in the camp and will be harder to control when they move to other camps run by the owners.
Ma is delighted with the running water and wash tubs, showers, and toilets and is happy to be able to clean up to meet the Ladies Committee for the Joad's section of the camp....
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Chapters 27-30 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright: migrants who have little left but their pride who share living space in a boxcar with the Joads
Aggie Wainwright: their daughter who will marry Al Joad
Chapter 27
There was cotton to be picked and willing hands to pick it. The wages weren't bad and they knew cotton, having picked it back home. They bought a collecting bag and paid for it with the first part of their labor. It was hard, tiring work. They dragged the big bag and filled it. Even the kids helped fill it. And they talked and sang as they worked. The bag got heavy. They got paid by the weight. The boss said they put rocks in it, and they said his scale was crooked. Each was right at times. It was good work, with money and meat at the end of each day. But there were thousands arriving to do the work of hundreds and the fields were picked clean rapidly. And winter was coming fast and there would be no work then.
Chapter 28
Being among the first to reach the cotton field, the Joads get to live in one-half of a boxcar rather than a tent. With the money they earn, they are able to buy new clothes and eat meat every night. But when Ma buys some Cracker Jacks as a special treat for Ruthie and Winfield, Ruthie gets into a fight over them with another girl. She threatens the girl by telling her about Tom killing two men and hiding nearby....
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But it's not all bad news of the White House more people are feeling good or at least better consumer confidence rises -- level we've seen since February.
But people still dealing a lot worse than they did just a few years ago.
-- housing digs are better but still by and large bad home prices in July rising by more than a percent compared to last year.
But my own house for example is still -- valuation of a cheap stuff he's on -- not be thought.
About 30%.
Below its peak.
Wall Street doctor -- -- things are so bad we are interpreted otherwise bad news as good.
Just because it gets better.
By the way -- Tom also -- Romney super delegate very well connected so.
We know your favorite right -- I agree with you on that I think that we've gotten used to getting shellacked in these numbers and were pleasantly surprised when we're not getting somewhat.
-- factually correct -- -- -- the American people are so you still I -- economy.
That any type of improvement in the numbers that you just so.
-- convincing the American people that things are getting better.
But you know when you look at the reality of how things up vs -- where we have a move -- -- -- here's your brilliant point well.
Pointed that if you've -- -- -- years -- really crappy data.
And now you look on these sites like zillow -- you go look at your 41 -- statement.
And you're no longer losing money hand over fist -- your house is worth at least -- -- -- rubles and it was.
Few months ago a year ago.
You really do think Europe to the race I know -- this -- -- if you step back it's -- what -- what -- -- about -- but that could be the one that the president's back.
You know what I mean if you look at all the data now that's gonna come in fun of us over the next few months I think that's gonna give a huge signal that we have not moved forward along with the was aborted the data like today -- consumer confidence ever rose to a multiyear high it.
We see housing and percolate a little better -- -- you know I think ultimately it's gonna come down -- you know who is gonna be better for the economy moving forward I mean yes corrected.
The indexes -- almost at all -- That's that looks great when you get your statements but how much -- -- would have we didn't.
If you know we had a -- business in -- is that regardless it ever does see that's the thing you have to channel joins I didn't wanna get your reaction is Joseph Biden -- he was commenting about where we've Comverse is where we -- -- this -- from Vice President Biden.
They act like somehow in September of 2008 all of a sudden the recession fell from the sky yeah.
How did this happen.
How did this happen.
As my number three granddaughter number four granddaughter would say not wasted pop did Casper the friendly -- do it.
-- happen.
Wouldn't that -- I mean.
You know it's all politics I mean you know he has to go out get -- pitch.
To the American people that their policies -- what -- the economy -- well that's another a humorous attempt to -- look at we inherited right that's correct I mean and you know what it's kind of like saying you know what is the -- -- blaming bush ultra.
You don't in the next ten years that you keep blaming bush what happened you know 300 -- -- Grover Cleveland -- That is right but I'll tell you -- still I mean.
-- it's gonna come down to.
The numbers and who is best suited to move this economy forward and you know what in my opinion not just -- -- from Wall Street you look at the middle class the middle class has a move forward at all.
You know I mean people may think because you know what the markets -- people do much better about all -- they're not doing that I mean if you look at the Reagan Reagan inherited a recession.
-- a -- what's ten point 2%.
In 37 months he gave all those jobs back and create an additional 79 now with 38 want it to this recovery.
And this president and this administration was -- to -- four million jobs.
So what does that tell you that all of us policy that he's put forth have not worked.
But it all hinges on the debates from Enron plan.
I agree that the debate so really gonna gotta say with the same -- you just it.
Yet what you just said yes and you know he should say the words I don't know if he can say what you did the -- it's all about you know his passion and in convincing.
The voters that are on the sidelines that his plane is gonna -- for America.
And that I think what's gonna be the tipping point of having him -- into the race come November.
You should not politics in America but I don't even on as a socialist who could run as a Communist is I -- we're gonna say wow.
And -- well we'll tell -- whether I would try to get over to Tom -- is John Thomas finance.
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How To Enter
Anyone who finishes a Trail Runner Trophy Series Races is automatically entered. For the non-marathon and marathon & longer categories, each participant will earn points for completing a race and bonus points for finishing in the top three. Mud run participants will be awarded an entry in the end of series prize drawing for each race that they complete. Click here for complete rules.
Track Your Points
Once the 2014 Trophy Series is underway and we begin collecting race results (late March), you will be able to view the most current Trophy Series standings here.
To download a list of the races whose points we have tallied, please click here.
New Mud Run Category
The 2014 Trophy Series will include a new trail fun run component. The new Mud Run division extends the excitement of participation in the Trophy Series to new trail runners. The Mud Run division will be scored as a separate category from the Non-Marathon and Marathon & Longer divisions of the Trophy Series. For this category, prize packages will be awarded by a random drawing to one male and one female participant. Each runner will receive one entry in the post-series drawing for each race he/she completes throughout the series.
Top Trail Fiends
The man and woman who run the most miles in Trophy Series races each win an entry into the TransRockies Run 3. This is a multi-day, fully supported, point-to-point trail adventure.
Top Trail Mogul
The man and woman who run the most races are also in the running for a Trophy Series grand prize. Prize information will be announced in January 2014.
Trail Runners of the Year
The Marathon & Longer (races 26 miles and longer) Trail Runner of the Year awards will go to the male and female with the most Trophy Series points in that category. They will each receive a multi-brand prize package courtesy of Trophy Series sponsors and be profiled in Trail Runner magazine.
The non-marathon (races less than 26 miles) Trail Runner of the Year awards will go to the male and female with the most Trophy Series points in their age groups at the end of the series (10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50 and older). They will each receive a multi-brand prize package courtesy of Trophy Series sponsors and be profiled in Trail Runner magazine.
Two random 2014 Trophy Series runners will also receive prize packages, as well as two randomly selected Mud Run participants. See the list of prizes in the left-hand column.
Every Trophy Series Runner Can Win!
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