Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Ending- Reflection
The end of the book had me very tense, I enjoyed every emotion that it gave me. However, i'd rather reflect on how the book changed me in general. I am never looking at a toilet the same way in my life. I feel spoiled rotten knowing I have running water; warm water at that. And I also feel very grateful to be able to eat everyday, and not have to worry about where i'm going to sleep. I now see every little detail in my life that has been greatly unnoticed, and am much more appreciative of my life, all thanks to this amazing story!
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Yeah i agree with you, we never appreciate everything we have until we lose it or see someone else in desperate need of what we have.
ReplyDeleteTotally! This novel makes you realize how lucky we are for the things we have. Never take things for granted.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this novel made me appreciate every thing i have now and should be grateful for it because not many people have this opportunity to live this life i have now. We may never know how much something means to us until they are gone, even the simplest of things like a toilet.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's the point. Maybe, sure, but I think there were some telling camps at the labor camp (where they picked peaches). The cops constantly grumbled about how the workers would start to expect things- toilets, and showers, and the like- as though these were extravagant luxuries. I think what Steinbeck was trying to convey is that there is no reason for working people in a country as wealthy as ours to go without relatively basic amenities- he wanted to make people resent being treated as less than human, so that they'd organize and form unions. The novel refers occasionally to "the grapes of wrath," and "God's wine press," and people "thirsty for the vintage." Well things like showers and toilets and soap are the wine; America is the wine press, and Steinbeck was trying to get across that all it would have taken was enough angry people.
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