8/28/07 page 1-56
The first chapter started off kind of confusing but very discriptive. It started off talking about the red country and how it hadn't rained for some time. Then everything started to fade away like how the streams faded to dust. When it was mentioned of the sky turning pale and making the ground seem pale too, i liked that i thought it was descriptive and made it easier to picture. How when anything moves clouds of dust floated and hung in the air makes me wonder what it would be like to be there during that time. How were they able to stand breathing in the dust and having to where masks over their faces to keep from breathing in the dust?
Then the second chapter completely changes views to a man walking upon a little restaurant and the red truck parked in front of it. Inside this restaurant is a man eating and talking to the waitress. The man outside desides to wait for himn even though he saw the sign that said no passengers, and lean up against his truck. When the man came outside and saw Joad leaning up against his truck, in order to be a good person, he gave Joad a lift. I wonder why the story went from explaining the country and a family wondering what they were going to do about the depression, to Joad and him returning home. While driving they talk and everything they are saying is a little hard to understand. Mostly the way they talk. Then Joad gets out and the driver tells him good luck as he drove away. I don't understand why the driver wasn't more uncomfortable with Joad after learning he was in prison for four years. I think that it would make someone a little more nervous riding with someone who's been in prison.
Then chapter three once again describes the road and everything surrounding it. But i don't undersand why it talks about a turtle for a whole chapter. I know the turtle has a meaning later on in the book but for so long of just describing its progress on the road and people driving by is going too far.
Chapter four goes back to Joad. Joad picks up the turtle and makes his way along the road to where there is a man seated under a tree and Joad goes by to see who it is. I like how the preacher is discribed into such detail about the way he looked and what he was wearing and even what he was singing. It really makes you feel like you are there looking at him yourself. Then Joad stops and they talk for a while and he says he's going to see his family and invites the preacher to go along.
Then chapter five starts talking about the family who had to leave the land. I think it's Joads family and what happened while he was gone. How they had to just pack up and leave i think was very wrong and that they shouldn't have to go so far, California, at least. I personally liked how the family was so willing to do anything to stay and to keep their family at home and safe.
Chapter six goes back to Joad and the preacher and them getting to the house and finding it torn down and broken and vacant. I think that Joad was scared of at least nervous at first when he saw his family wasn't there and how he didn't know where they were. Then along comes a creepy sounding man named Muley. He was very helpful in telling Joad where his family was but he talked to much and just kept rambling on about crazy things. I thought it was said that he let his family leave so he could stay and not leave since he had been told he had to. I think that was really the wrong decision because how he's going to find his family now is going to be hard. But it is really sad at how there is nothing to eat and he is forced to eat things like frogs which is disgusting.
I think this book is all right and very descriptive but at parts it gets confusing and is hard to follow along. When people are talking it hard to understand exactly what they are actually saying.
