grapes of wrath 26-end

The book gave a great ending, it was completly unpredicatable. The idea of killing the baby, and allowing the mother showed reality. Insted of letting everythign become happy and they make it, Stinebeck showed the reality of the time. He stuck to the theme of reality. Out of everything i think the ending was the greatest. Stinebeck deserves credit for writing it, he did not only portray reality he showed the nature of a family duing the time and how curroppted captialism can make society.

However my feelings about the detail still stands the same. The book had way too much detail, it couold have been shorter and keep the reader turning much faster insted of dragging on about one topic. The way he writes the book was genious he dumb down the characters dialect, and by doing this he makes the character seem much more realistic.

THe book follows a theme of sticking to gether. but at the end there are only six of them left. Ma had to let go, but why? Is she just being storng and not showing her feeling? if so is she going to break soon? Is she giving up? does she belife, and still have hope?

The secne of Rose of Sharon losing her child symbloizes that the future of the family was diminished. THe family has no other family member everyone seem as if they will die. The rain seems to symbloize their hopes drowning. While rose Of Sharon feed the grown man it showed how currupted the world was and forced people to stoop to desperate measures.

The grapes of wrafth chapter 17-20

At this point the boo0k seems to be gettin much more dramatic. It takes time to explain the hardships of the calfornia life. Chapter 19 seems to catch my attention alot because it describes americans stealing land from the mexicans then americans are stealing it from them selves which makes no sense towards the author. I think the author realizes this and uses the chapter to show how harsh life really is in california. THe death of grand ma was a really dramatic ending, it was so predicatable i thought it was not going to happen. I thogught that Stinebeck would show women strenght and dependience on family in order to live. But she does not i think this shows taht no matter how strong someone look anything that hurts mentally can break them. The disrespect taht was given because of the lack of money seems much more harsh than california. Also in the next chapter the family seems to be breaking up. The unity be the joad family and the Wilson family has broken up. Now im left to think will they even make it to california? They seem to have been snapped back to reality. In chapter 20 the joad family arrived tin California. They have a conversation with a man who decided to go back because he cannot deal with life in california. HE talks about the black list and how farmers (okies) cannot revolt because if they did they would be arrested and put on the blacklist so they would never be able to find jobs. The thing that suprises me the most in this section of the book is the idea that the Joad family is not discorage. Tey have went trought so much losing their family members and still they want to go to california. They belive in god and look out for each other. Cassy, for example tells Tom that he will take the heat for for him because he just had paroll and leaving the state was illegeal . But there times when the family is not able to stay together, but again tey still do not lose hope. I wonder how many of them will be lost? Will they ever be happy wit the losses they have?

Grapes of wrath chapter10-16

These chapters talked about the struggle taken by the family to get to California. THe first two chapters talked about them allowing Casy to come along with them even though they really dont think they have the space. They soon run into problems before they start their journey. One can only inferr that this mean their journey is goin to be much more hard. Their grandpa did not want to leave, he wanted to stay on the land and fend for him self, but they drugged him and forced him alone. I think from this they will regret it. If he dies on the road they would probally start to think what if we did leave him can would he have lived longer?. As the book countinue we fine out Grandpa dies because of a stroke. From this i think they are starting to think what if he was left back home would he have gotten a stroke? if so who he have gotten help? The book talks about the joad family being affected by the economy but then it brings in the Wilson family. This does not seem realistic to myself. The families are both heading to California, people have told me time and time again there are not enough jobs their they should not be going. But yet these two families get together and go. What do they expect to happen when they reach California? From the issue with money they have thought ahead, but when it comes to this subject they do not, why not? Also the death of the dog, what has that proven? The turtle was almost purposely killed, and did not die, the dog however did. Why? Is the dog a representation of just the family in the west while the turtle showed the whole US?