"The Flood" is also a chapter from John Steinbeck's noel The Grapes of Wrath. It is also a highly descriptive chapter which talks about a flood which totally wipes out all of the migrant workers in the sense that they have no job so no food, which leads to sickness. Steinbeck uses a lot of word choice; specifically verbs, such as 'the land whispered with muddy waters'. This is also an example of personification, which shows how nature has control over everything. Other verbs he sued include piled in, sucked, beat, whirled, crept, whipped, and thundered. These verbs clearly show the atmosphere of the chapter, which is solemn and depressing. Steinbeck's dialogue is also unique, because he doesn't use quotations and it has a very strong dialect, for example "They ain't gonna be no kinda work for three months". The tone and mood of this chapter is very solemn, and Steinbeck uses dark adjectives to describe it, such as "frantic men", "wet hay and leaking barns" and " Their faces were gray with terror".
No work till spring. No work.
Very succinct paragraph describing tone, dialect, and description--good!
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