What the? Has anyone else read the ending, literally the weirdest thing ever.
What the? Has anyone else read the ending, literally the weirdest thing ever.
Did reading it make you mean mad?
What's the big deal?
It’s not gross, it’s symbolic.
Pretty random and weird. I can see a little bit where he was going with it, but it was all in all a weird ending
They did what they needed to do to get by
No one ever has read the ending. Weird but true.
Good, now read Steinbeck "In Dubious Battle" and then DeLillo "Underworld."
Steinbeck not, by the way, the greatest American novelist, not even top 10-- he has real weaknesses-- but at his best he does things other couldn't.
Some people are very into "East of Eden," not sure I am though the movie is interesting, James Dean always hot and Burl Ives furry chest.
Life was rough and very graphic back in those days. Very graphic.
If you don't understand the ending, it's only because you've never been to the brink.
ma joad wrote:
Good, now read Steinbeck "In Dubious Battle" and then DeLillo "Underworld."
Steinbeck not, by the way, the greatest American novelist, not even top 10-- he has real weaknesses-- but at his best he does things other couldn't.
Some people are very into "East of Eden," not sure I am though the movie is interesting, James Dean always hot and Burl Ives furry chest.
For an apparent self proclaimed literary critic, your sentence structure is trash.
Bob Washington wrote:
What the? Has anyone else read the ending, literally the weirdest thing ever.
You guys know there is a movie. It's 2 hours, no reading, and you can take a nap after...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9d5csMFAfEJust saying. wrote:
ma joad wrote:
Good, now read Steinbeck "In Dubious Battle" and then DeLillo "Underworld."
Steinbeck not, by the way, the greatest American novelist, not even top 10-- he has real weaknesses-- but at his best he does things other couldn't.
Some people are very into "East of Eden," not sure I am though the movie is interesting, James Dean always hot and Burl Ives furry chest.
For an apparent self proclaimed literary critic, your sentence structure is trash.
Makes perfect sense to me.
https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E02/LQd_5amvPl1x7Ilo1DrtOZ6vRf4=.gif
I can only recall two scenes. One where some kid eats too many apples and gets diarrhea. And the other is when a married couple has sex next to their dead grandmother. Oh yeah, there's one scene where people are eating friend dough.
I feel like I liked Tortilla Flats more, but I'm not sure.
Read "Children of the Dust Bowl" next. It is kid-level non-ficiton and focuses on the school at Weedpatch Camp. Still covers the real misery of the migrants but shows the amazing changes one man made in their lives.
In addition to what others have said, it was also a reference to the story/concept of "Roman Charity." This would have been a more well-known story back then, so would have been a more recognizable motif when Steinbeck wrote the book.
participle physics wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9d5csMFAfEJust saying. wrote:
For an apparent self proclaimed literary critic, your sentence structure is trash.
Thanks for the vid. Until now, I wasn't aware that Mick Jagger, Joey Ramone and Ace Frehley were all in the same band at some point.
PortlandXCgirl wrote:
It’s not gross, it’s symbolic.
+1
If you really want to be horrified, try The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's kind of a post-apocalyptic Grapes of Wrath:
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895
I just finished it and can't get it out my head (It's not a running book).