Blog 50

My final blog, My final blog, My final blog!!!!!! I can not wait to get this over with...

I think I will blog about what my least favorite book was. It was actually a hard decision to make because none of them were even that bad to read. However, I must make a choice in order to finish my fifty blogs.

My least favorite would have to be The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. It was just really really...really long. It was over four hundred long long pages, and was 28 chapters. That is just a lot of reading! Also, the book was extremely depressing. The whole book was about Hardship and the sad things the Joad family was having to go through(Steinbeck 117). It just gets so boring reading about a family struggling and dying for twenty eight chapters. Maybe if the book was a bit more happy at times then I could actually read twenty eight chapters with out getting annoyed. Also, the author did something I can not stand when author's do. He did not give us an ending. As a reader it gets so frustrating not knowing what happened to a whole family you have just been reading about for basically my whole summer. I wish there was just one more chapter that was happy telling us that the Joad family was going to be happy and survive and live happily ever after. I highly doubt that is how the story would work out, but I am just saying what I wish.

It was still a decent book, with a good message. The message was to keep perserving and do not get beaten by defeat. However, the reader never knows if the Joad famly does end up getting out and being happy because we never got a definite ending which makes it hard to get the message. The theme and message would of just came off better if we saw the Joad family being rewarded for perserving this whole book.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.