Have you read "The Grapes of Wrath" ?

Question

what did you think of the ending?

i cried more reading this one than Uncle Tom's Cabin

what do you think happened to the Joad's ?

Answer 1

I just finished reading it as a mandatory book in my school, and I thought the book was excellently written. Steinbeck was really clever in weaving in whole ideas into the intercalary chapters; like in the whole first chapter, the content seemed completely irrelevant to the book, but after isolating words that described the environment, I found that the words seemed to describe a war. And the book was about conflict between man, nature, and machinery. Most of the people in my class hated the book, but I personally loved it. At first, I thought the ending was really incomplete and confusing, but Steinbeck probably wanted the leave the ending open to the reader's after thoughts and imagination. Even though Steinbeck probably didn't have any sexual intention, it was still slightly disturbing how Rose of Sharon offered herself to the sick man.

In the end, I think the flood would've ended and the Joads would've began a new life. Since Steinbeck used tons of religious allusions throughout the book, I think the flood in the story parallels the story of Noah's Ark from the Bible. After 40 days and 40 nights of flooding, God remembered Noah and his family, and had the water recede from the earth continually. It seemed as if the flood in the Grapes of Wrath was a metaphor for wiping the slate clean for the Joads, and allow them to have a new start. Small points of green grass growing out of the land as the rain stopped was also mentioned in the book, as if it was a cycle of rebirth, representing new beginnings for everyone, like a grass-roots movement, hence the grass.

It was a great book, and it deserves to it's place as one of the greatest American classics of all time.

Answer 2

Yes. I thought the ending was stunning and very sad. I cried too. They seemed so helpless and hopeless. But it was also beautiful, that sense of raw, human dignity that even the worst of circumstances could not wipe out. When all else was washed away, you still could not take away the urge to nurture another in need.

I think the Joads did what the rest of that society did, scraped by until they died. I don't think it got better by any means.

Answer 3

Yes I have read The Grapes of Wrath. As for Joad's he got swallowed by the whale. Then the Old man on his fishing boat caught the whale and tried to get it into his boat, it wouldn't fit, so he tied a rope to it and drag it back to shore. When he got back, nothing was left of the whale, it was eaten by the sharks...

Moral of story: You think you had a bad day? Its shark it whale out there...

Answer 4

I havent read the book, but I saw the movie, and I thought it was really great, its a great testament to the pioneering spirit of the American people during times of great hardship and suffering, I would recommend this movie to anyone who thinks they are having a hard time.

Answer 5

No,I haven't. Is that the one that would lead to the making of
"The Wrath Of Khan" trilogy ?

I thought I had missed a lot of the U.S stories.