I didn't really understand why the story needed to go into such disgusting detail on how they took the meat of the pig, and how they killed it, and how it squealed. It grosed me out and made me not want to keep on reading. Then when the preacher wanted to take over the mothers job of salting the pig meat because she looked tired it was strange. She acted almost like she was suspicous of him or did she just believe that since she was the woman it was her duty to do the womans work and not let a man take over. I was confused about how she acted. I thought she should be grateful for him wanting to help and take over for her so she could get some rest or something.
Chapter eleven is like all about the empty houses left behind and how they didn't need to come back for the tractors they left because in a few years the tractors wouldn't work anyways. Chapter twelve started talking about Highway 66 and the road and describing how the cars or trucks. Then when one lost a tire and needed to get a new one the town was a ways away. Then it started talking about people talking together and them talking about how everyone was going to California and that there wouldn't be enough room for everyone. And how the boarder patrol were stopping people and asking for their drivers license because they didn't want people in their state if they weren't going to buy estate.
Chapter thirteen started talking about how Al was becoming the soul of the car because he was intently listening to how it sounded making sure it wouldn't break down. I thought that how that was described of him and the car was really cool. It seems like it would be hard to ride so close together with so many people in a small vehicle. It would be hot and people would get sweaty so it probably smetl bad and I'm kind of grosing myself talking about it. The poor mom didn't seem like she was liking sitting in the hot sun and so close to others but she never complained. It was sad when their car broke down because that didn't help their situation at all.
Chapter fourteen was another confusing chapter talking about the western states and the nervousness and how the family driven from their land having to leave behind their memories to go to some new place to live and survive. The end paragraphs of this chapter really had a strong meaning and made a lot of sense about how people going into the new states were experiencing a new nervousness and all.
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I am actually starting to get more interested in this book the more that I read. I agree, I didn't like the way that the book discribed every little detail about the pigs getting butchered and cut up, and I thought it was odd the way that Ma didn't want Jim Casy to salt the meat and put it in the keg. She kept telling him that it was women's work.
Yeah, they always seem to have a place for each person in the family. Definitely different from today, and Ma seems to take the most of the work.
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