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A review by ahmed_suliman
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5.0
the aforementioned novel is a realistic one, and the sad truth is that reality can be tragic, as Casey once said: "We humans are small pieces of a larger soul that unites us" , but I see some people are blinded by ignorance to this fact.
This novel reminds me too with a cinematic adaptation of similar Egyptian reality to that of the past century, the film "Tongues and Rabbits - أفواه وأرانب". It is unfortunate that times have changed in the West since the events of this story, yet we remain here in our closed circle.
Nevertheless, the novel is so realistic that it makes you feel the sorrow that humans have suffered at the hands of other humanoids.
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I particularly enjoyed all of Casey's quotations, but I prefer his lamentation:
"This here ol’ man jus’ lived a life an’ jus’ died out of it. I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that don’t matter much. He was alive, an’ that’s what matters. An’ now he’s dead, an’ that don’t matter. Heard a fella tell a poem one time, an’ he says ‘All that lives is holy.’ Got to thinkin’, an’ purty soon it means more than the words says. An’ I wouldn’ pray for a ol’ fella that’s dead. He’s awright. He got a job to do, but it’s all laid out for ’im an’ there’s on’y one way to do it. But us, we got a job to do, an’ they’s a thousan’ ways, an’ we don’ know which one to take. An’ if I was to pray, it’d be for the folks that don’ know which way to turn. Grampa here, he got the easy straight. An’ now cover ’im up and let ’im get to his work."
This novel reminds me too with a cinematic adaptation of similar Egyptian reality to that of the past century, the film "Tongues and Rabbits - أفواه وأرانب". It is unfortunate that times have changed in the West since the events of this story, yet we remain here in our closed circle.
Nevertheless, the novel is so realistic that it makes you feel the sorrow that humans have suffered at the hands of other humanoids.
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I particularly enjoyed all of Casey's quotations, but I prefer his lamentation:
"This here ol’ man jus’ lived a life an’ jus’ died out of it. I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that don’t matter much. He was alive, an’ that’s what matters. An’ now he’s dead, an’ that don’t matter. Heard a fella tell a poem one time, an’ he says ‘All that lives is holy.’ Got to thinkin’, an’ purty soon it means more than the words says. An’ I wouldn’ pray for a ol’ fella that’s dead. He’s awright. He got a job to do, but it’s all laid out for ’im an’ there’s on’y one way to do it. But us, we got a job to do, an’ they’s a thousan’ ways, an’ we don’ know which one to take. An’ if I was to pray, it’d be for the folks that don’ know which way to turn. Grampa here, he got the easy straight. An’ now cover ’im up and let ’im get to his work."