Chapters 28-30 - The Grapes of Wrath

It seems like the best news of the book comes in chapter twenty eight.  The family shares a boxcar with another family, but they have enough money to buy clothes and food, and some to treat the little ones.  Unfortunatley, Ruthie and another girl get into a fight, and Ruthie brags that her brother has killed two men.  "Well, it wasn' her fault.  Got in a fight, an' says her brother'll lick that other girl's brother.  You know how they do.  An' she tol' that her brother killed a man an' was hidin'." (Steinbeck, 417).  Little kids can be very stupid sometimes.  Now I know why adults never let little kids know about secrets that should not be repeated. 
Rain began to fall and I thought that was good for all of the crops and plants, but too much rain came and washed everything away.  It has rained for many days and now the boxcar was being flooded and the families had to leave what was their good life behind.  During the rain fall, Rose of Sharon was in labor, but unfortunately her baby died.  Again, another person, in this case baby, died and everything is starting to go downhill again for the Joads.  The book ends with Rose of Sharon feeding the man who was dying.  I thought that this was a very curious and awful way to end the book.  I really can not think of an ending that would be better on the spot, but I believe that that was a bad ending.  This book was kind of a stressful book for me as a reader, and most definitely for the characters.  It is like the odds changed every chapter in this book.  What I mean by that is one moment you though everything was going to be fine, and then the next moment everything was going horribly wrong.  It made it hard for me to read because the book changed drastically every page and it made it hard to keep up with the story.

Bibliography

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