Chapters 19-21 - The Grapes of Wrath

As I read on in the book, The Grapes of Wrath, people are becoming angry and upset, with being hungry, not having much money, and no place to work.  It is a good recipe for total caous (not sure if that is the right spelling).  Anyways, they do not have enought money to buy a coffin for the granma.  When somebody dies, I am sure that they would wish that they would be handled properly.  Unfortunately, the Joads do not have the money to do that for her.  It is kind of sad if you think about it, what if that was you (dead)?  I would want to be properly buried.  Another moment reminded me of something in this book.  When Ma Joad is cooking her stew, the smell overwhelms everyone into coming to get some.  "The children, fifteen of them, stood silently and watched.  And when the smell of the cooking stew came to their noses, their noses crinkled slightly.  The sunlight glistened on hair tawny with dust.  the children were embarrassed to b e there, but they did not go." (Steinbeck, 253).  Seeing all these hungry kids reminds me of the book Night.  It was a book about the Holocaust and everyone was hungry.  They would do anything for an extra ration of food, and this scene of the book reminds me of that. 
When Knowles goes crazy about work, it is funny to see that the policeman shot a women.  It stinks to be her, but how dumb is that policeman?  It seems like more and more people are beginning to leave the story.  There have been deaths, the departure of Noah, the Wilsons left, and now Connie leaves.  He has a wife and a kid on the way.  He is such a jerk to leave the family during the hardest time.  He is a quitter.  The book is right he is good for nothing, I do not see what Rose of Sharon sees in him. Hopefully the family will get it together.

Bibliography

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.