Thursday, August 11, 2016
Final Thoughts On the Grapes of Wrath
Honestly, when we first we presented with this book, it looked highly boring and uninteresting completely. I read the first few Chapters thinking about how boring it was but, honestly, I think that I was just unknown to the metaphors and ideas behind the Chapters. After everyone started posting on the Blog site, I decided to read them and was shocked at what I had completely missed when reading those Chapters. After reading what they had to say, it made me re think about what I had already thought of the book. While I continued to read the book, I was trapped by its unexplainable imagery and themes. Reading the book became more of a desire to learn more about the story. What made the book even more interesting was the idea of how the book was structured to be. The Chapters (as we talked about in discussion) always switch from the Joad family to more of an overall view of what was occuring during that time. With that info, it made the book even more understanding because it gave insight with problems that were affecting people during that time. That's all I really have to say about The Grapes of Wrath but let me know what you guys thought about it! Did you think it was boring at first but was surprised to know it was interesting?
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At first I thought the book wasn't going to be interesting at all because it's not the type of book that I'd read to pass time but as I read more chapters and the posts from the blog my perspective of the book changed. The narrative chapters are scattered with the intercalary chapters giving a historical background or the struggle of other families that are going through the same situation as the Joads.
ReplyDeleteYeah Josh, I agree the booK did seem like it would be uneventful, but after reading it and analyzing it I grew to love reading it. The character like Ma, Tom, Casy were riveting. After the second chapter with Tom and the Trucker I became more engrossed in the book, I wanted to learn about Tom and why he killed the man. I really did enjoy reading the book, and I loved learning about the Dust Bowl. The Grapes of Wrath was a sad, but beauteous book. I also did enjoy reading about what other people thought of the book on the blog as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to be honest. I thought f the book the same way. It sort of seemed pretty uninteresting for me to read during the summer. Until I started reading, that's where it got interesting. I thought that the book kind of had its uninteresting parts to read but, the moral lessons portrayed throughout the book made me want to read through it. I thought that I could learn something through it.
ReplyDeleteI thought that I could learn something from it. Use the advice I learned from the book and change my perspective of the world.
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