Why did John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath with the Politzer Nobel Peace Prize? Need quotes from the book.?

Answer 1

~"I got thinkin’ how we was holy when we was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing. An’ it on’y got unholy when one mis’able little fella got the bit in his teeth an’ run off his own way, kickin’ an’ draggin’ an’ fightin’. Fella like that bust the holi-ness. But when they’re all workin’ together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang—that’s right, that’s holy."

This passage led the Nobel panel to grant their award to Steinbeck. It was an oblique, yet clear, reference by Steinbeck to the growing animosity to the avarice of the Church during the height of the depression and the total and abject disregard of the plight of the hoi-poloi. While the prize was being considered, the Vatican initiated a world-wide relief program, and eventually ceded its Ethopian pasturelands to the nomadic druids who to this day farm the sub-saharan silicon fields for wheat and corn. It was this action by the Church, directly inspired by the book, that turned the scales in Steinbeck's favor and cost F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Mississippi Burning" the prize.
You can do your own homework as to the "Polizer", but I suggest you direct your research at the "Pulitzer" instead because you're apt to find more information that way. The three passages that swayed the committee are Ma's speech in chapter 12, Tom's soliloqy in chapter 27, and Boss Tamaney's tirade in chapter 42.

Answer 2

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