"Grapes of Wrath" Posting 5

For this blog posting, I read chapters 12-16. In these chapters, John Steinbeck says that migrants drive along route 66 to get to California. Along the way, they stop in towns and are constantly told to go back because the California border patrol will just turn them back anyway. The Joad family makes a stop at a gas station to get some water. While they are there, their dog runs onto the highway and is hit and killed by a car. The Joads stop at a campsite to make dinner. They meet Ivy and Sairy. Then they realize Grandpa is sick. He was having a stroke. He ended up suffocating and dying. Along their way to California, the Joad's car breaks down. They fix up the car and leave again.

I thought this was a very sad part of the book because both the dog and the grandpa died. They were so sudden. I also think it is sad how so many migrants are forced to move to California in order to find work, but when they reach there they are turned back. It makes me wonder what my family would've done had we been in those migrants' positions. So far I am enjoying this book and it is still interesting.