The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of a family that is forced through increasing industralisation of farming and poor weather, to move from their home in Oklahoma over to California in an attempt to find work, and a new home. And Steinbeck tells the story brilliantly I fell in love with Steinbeck ...
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I should actually mark this "to re-read." I read it in high school, and the only parts I can remember liking were the interchapters about the turtle. I found the rest of it overwhelmingly bleak. I think I'll have a better appreciation of it as an adult.
I won't lie, I hated the beginning of this book. It took me at least a third of the book before I could actually get into it and enjoy the story. Part of this might be that I prefer a more forward writing style and part of it was most definitely the topic. During my grade 12 year, all we read were s...
Not many books have made me cry, this is a definite exception. By far the most powerful book I've read in a long long while. I originally read this as an assignment in high school and didn't appreciate it at all. I'm glad I decided to give it another read as 18 years later, I'm definitely coming ...
I really don't like the majority of John Steinbeck's works with the exception of one or two. I find his writing really dry. Granted I have not tried to read them again since college, but even at my age now, I think I would be bored with them.
I found the story to be ok. However, while I understand the social and cultural arguments Steinbeck has clearly made in The Grapes of Wrath, I really don't find myself agreeing to muh with them. That's why I found this book to be more of a radical viewpoint on how the world should be in a collective...
Everyone today should read this book. It is so applicable to today's economy and to people's views toward anyone different than themselves. It shows man's inhumanity to man. The selfishness and greed of the haves contrasts brilliantly with the sharing and caring of the have-nots. You can observe...
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