The Grapes of Wrath question 2

Many things were lost to the Joad family in this novel. One of these being several family members. Lets start with the grandpa. His death was a complete and total act of nature, and had absolutely nothing to do with him being drugged shortly before hand. Its not murder if you bury the body with a note saying it isn't murder. Its true I read it in a book, this book to be exact. "I offer we put a note of writin' in a bottle an' lay it with Grandpa, tellin' who he is an' how he died, an' why he's buried here." (Steinbeck 140) Obviously this isn't the intended message, but I find it strange that they drugged him, then he has a stroke, and no one is able to put two and two together. Onward to the next death, that being the dog that was hit by a car, which is the first instance to instigate the thought of maybe Rose of Sharon's baby might not be alright. "But will it-hurt the baby?" (Steinbeck 142) Then the Grandma died and her body was used as a free ticket into the state, which by my standards is actually a gain of the conflict, because they probably wouldn't have gotten in so easily if it hadn't been for the Grandma dying. Another thing they gained is experience, because now they know what it's like to be poverty stricken, and to be hungry, and to be discriminated against, and now their better people for it. Their morals and beings were tested, and they came out with these still intact as is proven in the end of the book. "You got to." she said. She squirmed closer and his head close." (Steinbeck 455) So in the end they gained the privilege of becoming better people, and unfortunately even through all of these events, their grammar did not improve, and I was heavily annoyed by all the unfortunate grammar mistakes.

Steinbeck, John, and Robert J. DeMott. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.