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"66 is the mother road. The road of flight."
The Dust Bowl exodus to California evokes the children of Israel's flight from Egypt and so the biblical and epic scope of this novel feels appropriate—and inevitable because it is Steinbeck. Also inevitable is that it is raw, coarse, humble, and its characters continuously utter blasphemous curses. As the reader takes up their travels with the Joads, they will begin to wonder...will these children of Israel wander in the desert for 40 years? Or will t ...more
The Dust Bowl exodus to California evokes the children of Israel's flight from Egypt and so the biblical and epic scope of this novel feels appropriate—and inevitable because it is Steinbeck. Also inevitable is that it is raw, coarse, humble, and its characters continuously utter blasphemous curses. As the reader takes up their travels with the Joads, they will begin to wonder...will these children of Israel wander in the desert for 40 years? Or will t ...more
My own family migrated from Oklahoma to California during the depression. The Grapes of Wrath felt like looking at a family photograph from before I was born. The final scene of the book is so powerful it makes the entire novel unforgetable.
May 15, 2014
Lorena
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