While the Joad's dog was exploring the road, it tragically gets run over by a car. The death of the dog foreshadows how the road to California will not be smooth and the family will face tragedy. The death of the dog also hints to how the family will lose people and items on the road to California. The dog's death also shows how no matter what tragedy the family faces on the road to California they will stay strong and keep moving.
" I'm sorry, folks.... A dog jus' last no time near a highway.... I had three dogs run over a year. Don't keep none, no more.... Don't you folks worry none about it.... I'll take care of 'im.... Bury 'im out in the cornfield" (Steinbeck, 1939, p.131). This quote shows how the service man tried to comfort the family after their dog's death and told them he would bury their dog. This act by the service man shows that no matter how tough the road to California gets there will always be people who help the Joads. The car who ran over the dog not stopping to make sure everything was okay for the family, also foreshadows how there will be times when the family struggles and no one stops to helps them.
If you have any thoughts on what the death of the family dog foreshadowed, please leave a comment down below?
Another thing I thing I noticed was that the dog was exploring a new environment. It had never been near a highway, so as it explored, it got itself into trouble because it didn't know how things functioned there.
ReplyDeleteI think that foreshadowed that the Joads, like many other migrants, will get themselves in trouble because they are in a new, unfamiliar environment and they do not know things work there because it will be so different from home.
Yeah I definitely could see that. The dog was exploring when it got killed. The Joads did also get in lots of trouble in later chapters for just being new.
DeleteI agree with you. I also thought the family dog dying was foreshadowing that the family would face tragedy along the road.
ReplyDeleteYeah that was the first thing that came to my mind after the dog died. It was tragic that the dog was innocently killed and became the Joads first real death along California.
DeleteI thought that the death of the dog foreshadows any future deaths to the Joad family. I was right. Their travel to California did cost a lot of lives on the way. Its horrible.
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree, the death of the dog did foreshadow future deaths. The family journey to California was very sad and they did lose alot of family members and people along the way.
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