I am through reading fourteen chapters of Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. This book is really beginning to grow on me a lot. Steinbeck throws that twist into the novel by ‘killing off’ Granpa. I did kind of see it coming though after they overdosed him with the cough syrup before they left. I do not know if over dosing on cough syrup could ever lead to a stroke, but I think they are related. The whole trip up until he died Granpa was just lay in the back of the truck. I knew something was wrong when he never did anything but lay there. Maybe another cause of his death was just his heart died. He never wanted to go to California, and he was forced to go. Maybe once he woke up from being drugged and saw he was on the road to California and away from where he was born and raised, he just did not have the hope inside of him to live. I mean he was a Granpa of at least a twenty five year old grandson. I am guessing that Granpa was quite old given this fact so anything can just knock him into a spiral towards death.
It was pretty cool that not only is Casy a former preacher, but he doubles as a doctor. It was very cool to read about how Casy knew that Granpa was dying at the time. Then later he says he knew Granpa was dying way before he actually did die.
One thing that still confuses me is every other chapter. I do not get why in every other chapter Steinbeck has to put in unnecessary information. I am just confused as to why he does this. If I could ask John Steinbeck one question about this book, it would be; “why are these chapters like this?” It is just so weird to me and I am sure to many other people.
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