The Grapes of Wrath

so to be honest I pretty much skimmed the first chapter it was soo boring; but when I started on the second chapter I was fairly interested.I think this book did have a moral in comparison to the Adventures of Huck Finn. Grapes taught me that life is no where near fair and we must perserviere. All of the hardships the family endured during the novel were not fair but they pushed through. I liked how the charecters in this novel were introduced one at a time. In Huck Finn the chaecters were often described in groups and in storys like that I find it harder to create a visual image. When charecters like the preacher for example are added to the story line one at a time I tend to have a better picture in my head of the said charecter. This book went into alot of side storys that related to the main idea. I learned a few things from this book that gives me a new perspective. Ma Joad had a line in the book that described how we live many lifes and we begin and end many cycles, but in the end you really only lived one life. That kind of made me think about all of the cycles myself and family have evolved through. I have had many different personalities, habits, hobbys, and beliefs in my fifteen years; from the point that I am at now in life, I am one person. The Joad family in the story went through an abundance of hardships and were rocked by death. The first of these deaths was the death of the land. Death colored the pages of this novel black. From the family dog to both grandparents, casy, and on to the preacher. I think the death that impacted me the most though was the child who was born still born, that crushed me. I remember dragging through this book wondering about this baby and then it dies. It is sort of mean to say but I found myself most intrigued with tihs charecter because she was always concerned with herself. Let me explain, every single person relevant in this book was tought a lesson via tradgeddy. I knew it was coming but I did not expect her to get her wake up call from her husband Connie leaving her and her still birth. I found this book stressful but appropriate for the time period and in my personal opinion, it was a moving piece of work.