Week of September 17-20 Entry #1

Book Read: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Entry 1

The Grapes of Wrath. Some students might recognize the title of this book if he or she has an elder sibling. Some may know this book even though they don't have an older sibling because of its notoriety. The information of this book indicate that this is a classic book written in the 1930s by John Steinbeck, whom we know as the author of The Pearl, and is one of the hardest, enduring, and painstaking book to read. However, this is an inevitable book that we have to encounter in our high school year. I wanted to have some experience with the book, so I checked this book out of the library.
As I was reading this book, I noticed that what I heard was true. The first day I got this book, I read two pages and I was already half-sleeping. The first few pages describe one scene of a village in detail. For students who haven't been reading a lot, this book is rigorous. Yet, I endured the hardships and proceeded on. The basic plot is that a group of farmers are pushed out of their land in America during the early times of the United States, and are forced to move to California, and this book portrays the hopeless and hard conditions of the migration. The main character is Tom, a man who stayed in prison for 4 years for killing a man in a fight when drunk. I have read up to chapter 6, but not much has happened except for the fact that a group of farmers are forced to move, and Tom is with Jim Casy, a former preacher who quit preaching because of bad sexual relations. Anyways, this book seems to be an interesting, but hard book. I am looking for to check out whether the things I have heard about this notorious book is really true or not.