GOW essay

Steinbeck, I feel that he wrote this book sort of weird the reason why is because, he used this technique that I have never seen in a book before. If I have I have never seen it with such success. Steinbeck would be able to focus on one family and little by little go into one person, but then it would come out and relate to the whole nation and show that the Joad family was not the only ones going through this struggle.

I thought that this technique was established so fast in the book. They were able to show that the Joad family was strong. I felt as though that when Steinbeck put that in I felt as though he was using the Joad family as a metaphor. The Joad family was the nation and how every one was trying to act so strong and like nothing was happening but then when they started to notice that they were really in trouble the started to weaken. At the end of the book I felt that the emotion started to come out especially on the zoomed in chapters. On the chapters that were zoomed out I felt as though as if I was more connected to the story then when it was zoomed in

Of course there were some chapters were I was not able to feel any emotion for the charters it didn’t matter if the chapter was zoomed out or zoomed in. I think that the reason for that was because I know what happened in the dust bowl. There was chapter 14 that just jumped out the reason why was because I really never thought that the dust bowl was that bad. I shocked me so much how badly the farmers were fighting. It was as though it was a survive of the fittest. Even after I know so much about the dust bowl.

Over all I think that the technique worked perfectly most of the time. It added this I want to keep on reading feeling. And I felt as though I was in the story it was very personal.