#the grapes of wrath
Happy 4th of July to all my American followers! Hope you have a fab day/night of celebrating Independence Day! In homage, here’s a few American Literature classics to brighten your day! ✨
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The Genius of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl
Today I’m discussing a prescient novel which analyses the subtleties of social order and stability, and the place we each accept within it. John Steinbeck’s The Pearl is a brilliantly insightful work about a pearl diver named Kino, who lived in a poor area of Mexico in 1940. He acquires the most valuable pearl he, or anyone he has ever known, has ever seen. The acquisition of this pearl, rather…
In 1939, Viking Press first published John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, and it’s pretty good if you can get past the part about the goddamned turtle crossing the goddamned road.
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939), J. Steinbeck
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what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against
for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter
“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”
