Final Thoughts

I found the last few chapters to be overwhelming and felt the need to take a breather. I had no idea that Jim Casy would be killed!! It completely caught me off guard, and when Tom gets angry and kills a cop, all I was thinking was how Ma was going to react to it. Since Tom fled the scene with a broken nose and a damaged face, it obviously would give him away to the cops since he was being searched for. Next, Ruthie exposes the fact that Tom was hiding after killing a guy to a girl over an arguement because the girl had snatched her Cracker Jack's, which leads to Tom relocate. Finally, Rose of Sharon's baby turns out to be a stillborn which was tons of sad, however, I had a feeling telling me the delivery wasn't going to go well. Oh and I found it SUPER symbolic when the flood bank crashes.... and moments later the baby was pronounced dead. Does anyone else feel the same way??.... or is it just me..??