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

Aaaaaand another one bites the dust. Granma. So the family is down by three, not counting the dog

Tehachapi made a brief appearance!

I plumb forgot who Noah was. And now he's gone and left the fambly, gone off on his own. Ma isn't gonna be happy

I wonder if California's population boomed as a result of this migration?

The ragged man coming back from California is a cautionary tale. The family should've never gone

Pretty sure the onion burger is what the diner cook was cooking

~ For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I don't remember Grampa dying this early. But I guess he got his wish. He died before even crossing the border of Oklahoma

~ 66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there.

Aaaaaaand the Joads are off