For this posting, I read chapters 27 and 28. In these chapters, the Joads decide to leave the government camp because they are running out of money and they can't afford to stay there. They decide to go pick cotton to make more money. Tom witnesses a strike. In the group is of people Casy is in there. While they are talking, a man strikes Casy in the head with a pick axe and kills him. Tom steals the axe, and kills that guy. The Joads leave.
Wow that is some crazy action that just happened. That just came out of no where and surprised the heck out of me. I said I wanted action and action I got. Killing was very unexpected for me to happened in this book. I expected people to die but not like this. Well that was a great reading section and now I got to finish up the book.
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ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you got the action you were looking for! How do you think the Bible verse that the title alludes to ties in to the story?
It is a sad book--for Steinbeck, setting and character are equally important to tell the story. That's why he spends so much time with both. Who else do you think will die? Who needs to survive for the human spirit to prevail?
Let me know what you think of the end--happy summer reading!