Saturday, August 3, 2013
Gabrielle McCray
I'm reading The Grapes of Wrath, I don't really enjoy reading this book, some of the dialogue is challenging to read because the characters have a very strong country dialect, and the writer portrays the way the characters speak by spelling the words incorrectly, causing the words and sentences to be difficult to understand. There also was a whole chapter based solely around a turtle crossing the road, I'm still in the process of reading this book, and I still don't understand why this chapter was included.
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I really hate written accents in books. It just irritates me to no end, and it only serves to make the plot harder to understand, even if it does add a touch of realism and detail.
-Robert Gitau
I love this book! I love the side stories that Steinbeck inserts and I really enjoy the use of the misspelled words for the accents. I think I like the chapters that appear as if they have nothing in common with the rest of the book and the plot because with the turtle chapter, it was fun to see how in the next section, Tom picks him up to give as a present to his brother and sister. I like trying to figure out and piece together how those stories fit with the main storyline. I enjoy the dialect used because it lets me envelop myself in the novel and lose myself in the writing. When I take a break and talk with my family I almost always have a bit of a southern accent and I also like that because it makes the book that much more challenging to read and digest. I have to work sometimes to figure things out which I think makes this book become something that I delve into and I can remember, not a novel where I have to read the same paragraph two or three times to understand it. I hope you guys like it better as you read on! I also hope that I maybe gave you a new perspective on it!
Happy reading!
-Caroline Steffy
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