Grapes...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This your forum for discussion. Although I will toss in questions, I will expect you to be the main contributors to the blog. You are expected to post and comment at least twice (1x each) every time we are in the lab as a class. Naturally, you are required to keep comments germane to the novel and to treat your classmates' opinions with respect. Have fun.
8 comments:
Oh Al...you make me laugh.
But I understand your question.
As far as symbolism goes, I think it's more or less just a representation of how people make choices they regret and hate.
LOL it's a mix of the two! Someone in another portion of the blog mentioned that their whole conversation had to do with human sin and that it's unavoidable. Even preachers sin. That's the whole symbolic part. But Steinbeck didn't have say it over and over again. Perv lol!
It's another part where the repetitiveness is a bit over-redundant. Yes, we get it, there's corruption in religion (or at least with this man). You don't have to beat us over the head with it.
Well, I think that the author just wanted to talk about sex... I am totally kidding. I think that i brings up a life lesson of adultery and the reason why some people decide to go down that path and the consequences of it all.
It is pretty creepy, although the two men don't really go into that much detail about it. Sometimes adult books might go that direction. I think that it is just a representation of humanity, but beyond that, I don't think that there is much symbolism there.
Ok, as I read, I've discovered that the author talks about sex ALL THE TIME. Every chance he gets, that's what he talks about. I think he's just a dirty perv. Even if it is some symbol for human sin, could he not pick another sin to talk about!?!
I think that Steinbeck was just trying to give Tom Joad's character some realness since he just got out of prison after four years and that was the subject on his mind. He talked to the preacher about the subject to prove to the reader that the preacher was corrupt and no longer a true preacher.
Post a Comment