By including this intercalary chapter, what effect is Steinbeck most likely attempting to achieve?

Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

a)Providing commentary, separate from the narrative, which illustrates the wastefulness that occurred during the Great Depression.b)Giving readers a better understanding of the historic factors that contributed to the start of the Great Depression.c) Creating a secondary narrative that runs parallel to the primary narrative but uses different characters and plot. d)Carrying the theme of perseverance beyond the scope of the narrative by illustrating it to readers in a separate setting

The answer is A. This excerpt is found in the Grapes of Wrath. This is an American realist novel transcribed by John Steinbeck and in print in 1939. The book attained the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was quoted importantly when Steinbeck was bestowed the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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MrsTate MrsTate · Answer 2 · 2018-08-08T15:21:16-04:00

a)Providing commentary, separate from the narrative, which illustrates the wastefulness that occurred during the Great Depression.

In the excerpt the oranges are sprayed with kerosene so that people cannot pick them up and eat them. During the Great Depression, people were extremely poor and did not have money to spend on what might seem like a luxury - fruit. The passage says "a million people hungry, needing the fruit" but it's wasted when the kerosene is sprayed on them, making them inedible.