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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A beautiful critique of early modern American life. The horrors of capitalism are written plainly throughout the novel as if it was a natural disaster that could not be avoided. While the smaller business owners are portrayed as human and sometimes kind, the larger the businesses got the less human the owners and those that enforced their ownership of the capital became. The refusal of the few to put aside personal gain led to terrible pain and suffering of the masses. Throughout the book we see how the Joad’s struggle to deal with these changes and they could be consider one of the luckier families all things considered. And as the vices of capitalism slowly squeeze the humanity out of the poor and hungry, there is also the brighter side to humanity that is displayed. In the camps where strangers tend for each other and honor the fallen whom they never knew. Communities that rise and fall in days have lasting impacts on the lives of those in them. But at a point these tent villages turn into another way for the capital owners to oppress and harm the poor. Using the police as their cudgel, tearing apart communities doing harm to no one filled with people just struggling to survive. Beyond the cruelty of the capital owners the unwillingness of the government to step in and help these people is another symptom of the disease that afflicts America. When large corporations own everything they also own the politicians that have the ability to enact change and thus change rarely occurs. This book is as relevant today as it was when it was written.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
An essential read for 2025. Brilliant. Listen to the penguine classics recording on your commute. It is all about organized labor and the agricultural industry in the 1930s, but it transcends its time and space brilliantly. Mostly because so much has not changed across many large industries.
Also, if you have any maga relatives, recommend to them this book. Again, the recording is great.
Also, if you have any maga relatives, recommend to them this book. Again, the recording is great.
"No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me."
Quite possibly the Greatest American Novel.
Quite possibly the Greatest American Novel.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism
Minor: Animal death, Child death
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes