Nobel, pulitzer, and a poodle
Oct 6, 2009I started reading Grapes of Wrath for school today and am already suffering from severe depression/profound doubt of mankind. Just kidding, I haven’t even finished the introduction.
As a result I eat plastic otters and create unorthodox scenes with dolls.
Exhibit A. (This is Sammy’s work, actually. He made these the other day.)
Exhibit B. (I think he’s really on to something here.)
The other reading group is assigned Of Mice and Men, presumably the better one because it’s shorter and you don’t have to read as much. I would have liked to read Grapes of Wrath on my own, anyway, so I was happy to get that [Grapes] group. I felt really smart in class when I mentioned Woody Guthrie and his relation to the Dust Bowl, and that John Steinbeck had a poodle.
John Steinbeck is the man. Good choice on Grapes over Mice.
Spencer,
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Kim
I picked Grapes of Wrath for my English paper project that was like, half of our grade in 7th :-)
The seal coming out of the tea pot is my favorite part of the second picture.
the ending to of Mice and Men is is is uuuuuuughUGUHUHUGUHGHU heartbreaking. i like steinbeck.
I think the second photo could be part of an album cover. To me, the lady killed the guy and tried to flush him down the toilet to hide the evidence, while the sea lion sat off to the side being fuzzy and all, and not really having toilet guy’s back. Then, the second guy came in and croaked right on the spot after seeing what happened to the first guy, aware of his impending doom.
I liked Of Mice and Men. We read The Pearl in 9th grade, and I liked the story, but I didn’t really “get” a lot of books back then. I don’t really “get” a lot of books now, but the ones I do, I tend to like a lot, like “Perks” :-D. If you are ever offered “A Confederacy of Dunces”, by John Kennedy Toole as a reading selection, grab it. It’s hysterical.
When I was in 4th grade, I had my first Steinbeck experience reading “The Red Pony”. I famously threw it across the room when finished and declared I was never reading Steinbeck again. Ha. Little did I know, that was just the tip of the Steinbeck iceberg in school.
Stay away from eating the otters as you read about the turtle crossing the highway.
Good luck!