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“It was the classic mistake, Tod realized, the same one Napoleon had made.” The quote from Chapter 18. As an artist’s perspective, Tod thinks that reality and appearance may line up. Tod realized that he made the same type of mistake as Napoleon did. He perceived the tension in the theater, the competition between illusionContinue reading “Short Blog #3”

The 1930s of the United States had numerous historic events: The New Deal, The Great Depression, and The Dust Bowl. None of these events would be erased from people’s minds. People’s life is altered, nothing left. “How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” In Steinbeck’s mind,Continue reading “The Unforgettable Scenes (Long Blog #1)”

If you think everyone works in Silicon Valley in the 1930s, that’s absolutely incorrect. People underwent tremendous pain under the Dust Bowl. In the book The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck closely depicted the scene of California farm workers as a part of the immigrant family. In Chapter 17 and 19, the quote of “They wereContinue reading “Short Blog #2”

“We read. We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates the war.” This sentence strongly expresses the desire of people in the novel that they’re not elegant, ignorant, and rude people with low social status. They’re people with the abilityContinue reading “Practice Blog #1”