Haley’s Reviews > The Grapes of Wrath > Status Update

I know she’s a child but I can’t stand Ruthie. A brat from start to finish, and I don’t usually say that about children.

I knew the baby wouldn’t be okay, but damn if it didn’t make me gasp anyway.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor. Pray God some day a kid can eat.
And the associations of owners knew that some day the praying would stop.
And there’s the end.

… The great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

He… he pissed in the mud and applied it to an open wound to stop the bleeding……. 😰