What the? Has anyone else read the ending, literally the weirdest thing ever.
What the!?!?!?! Just finished reading "Grapes of Wrath"
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Did reading it make you mean mad?
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What's the big deal?
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It’s not gross, it’s symbolic.
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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
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They did what they needed to do to get by
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No one ever has read the ending. Weird but true.
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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... -
Just 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9d5csMFAfE -
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.
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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.
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participle physics wrote:
Just 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9d5csMFAfE
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.
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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).
