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Summary: Great, thought -provoking book
Review: Before I read this book, I was told that it is a slow and boring read due to not having much action. Well, the action part may be true (depends on what you consider to be "action"), but the boring part is definitely not the case. I literally couldn't put this book down. In a nutshell, it tells the story of a depression era family that is driven from their family farm and describes the hopefullnes and heartache that entails their journey across the country to California in search for work. I realized the degree of struggle of which we today do not, and could not, understand, yet it was so real to those living just a couple of generations earlier. If you stick with this book and give it a chance it will definitely prove to make you think. If you're pondering whether or not to buy it...I say what are you waiting for?
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Summary: Huh?
Review: Excellent piece of American literature. Well written and thought provoking.
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Summary: Marvelous, true American patriotism.
Review: John Steinbeck is the most perceptive and creative authors I've read. I read Grapes of Wrath sophomore year, and it spawned a complete love of literature. This book takes the reader through an odyssey of emotions and troubled times. It so perfectly represents the 30's depression, and America in general. It opened my mind to the values of this country, and inspired me to see everything from a different eye. This is a book that will change your life. I will not vote for a president who has not read this book.
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Summary: HEARTWRENCHING......NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED
Review: At first when I started out, I wasn't too sure I would want to continue. This book is written in local dialect which I thought would be tedious but I was in for a surprise for it was not. After a while I began to love the dialect as much as I loved this book to tell the truth. No wonder John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for this work.The Grapes of Wrath centres on the Joads; a Dustbowl family from Oklahoma whose land was confiscated from them, along with others in the Midwestern states. All these families head for California where it is understood that there is lots of opportunity in that golden state to start again. This being in immigrant work or farm labour in grape, pear and peach reaping.The trek is long but it's supposed to be well worth it with expectant good wages. and somewhere decent to live, somewhere to call home. Meet the Joad family of Ma Joad; a good Christian woman and as the strength and spine of the family, she holds a tight reign on the entire bunch of them retaining their team spirit, and keeping the morale alive amongst them. Then there is Casey a sometimes preacher man; Tom Joad her eldest son who is driven and afraid of nobody, but just anxious to get out to California to make some money; his brother Noah, a man consumed by quiet moments and little to say; Al the brother who drives the loaded down truck from Oklahoma, out to the West; Uncle John a restless soul, but who can blame him! These along with Pa Joad, the Joad sister Rose of Sharon, and the young ones Ruthie and Winfield, they make up the exodus. An exodus like none ever seen, we share in each heartache and disappointment as well as their hopefulness which Ma stokes daily. As the Joad family turn from farmers in their own right to immigrant workers, it gets harder for the family to retain their dignity. The reader will find himself living through these characters lives, and experiencing gratefulness for the little things which are so often taken for granted day in and day out. I would love to encourage anyone interested in good literature, to get your hands on this powerful book soon. It certainly encouraged me to look at life differently. Reviewed by Heather Marshall
January 10th, 2003
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Summary: Classic American fiction at its best
Review: The gem has it all. Humor (you'll laugh out loud at some of the scenes), frustration, beautiful imagery not difficult to understand and ulimately, love. You will believe the ultimate triumph of love and compassion we have for each other as family no matter who we're born to. Let yourself see the pictures in your head Steinbeck gracefully describes as he writes. It's not hard. It's not difficult reading. If nothing else, read the part about the one-eyed man getting hilarious, believable advice about how to succeed with women. Great laughs!
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Summary: Review for English
Review: This is a wonderful way to understand what its like to be truly deprived of the things we treasure most in life. it helps to better understand how precious life and family are. one minute they're there and putting up a fight, and the next thing you know, they're gone. There could be no worse feeling then knowing that your family is failing. The journey through life is a hard one and every moment should be cherished.
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Summary: grapes of wrath(appropriate title)
Review: I have mixed feelings on how to rate this book. The reality of it and the way it follows the depression are excellent. I give it a five on accuracy and detail. BUT.... I really believe it's only worth reading it if you don't mind horrible, depressing, sad endings. I was very dissapointed. I felt like I was reading a history book instead of a reading book because for me, a book I'm reading for fun, should at least have a satisfing, if not happy, ending. In history books anything bad can happen and in this case it did. The situation in the end was hopless.
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Summary: Just another boring book
Review: I had to read this book for a college class, and I hated it. I do see the significance in the book, but I do not find it interesting. I would not recommend this book to anyone, read something like Black Girl Lost, The Coldest Winter Ever, Flyy Girl, Liars Game, Push, American Dreams... books like that are Highly Recommended...
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Summary: Bad Book
Review: I feel the wrath after reading this boring A$$ book.
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Summary: Danielle's Review
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this classic. This book was a brilliant analysis of social society and it really makes me feel sorry for the immigrants. I especially liked how Steinbeck made the novel as gloomy as possible to prove his point. The vivid images of this great book showed a farming family forced to move out for a better chance at life, and then fail at the end. It makes you feel as if you are really there. The Great Depression was a cruel, foolish discriminating event on the innocent Americans. It was also very difficult to see proud Americans being significantly reduced to nothing at all. It leaves you hanging, lets you decide what will happen. It is really a wonderful book.
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