The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter Four

All I can think about is that poor turtle and when he will show bvack up in the text. Luckily he crawls into this chapter and I can breathe for a moment and focus on other bullets of significance. The author goes to greath lengths to describe Jim Casy's stringy and muscular neck, protruding eyeballs, thin and sunbeated skin, and large forehead. I like when Casy relates every kid having a turtle to the Holy Spirit that he feels he can't keep forever. Maybe the turtle will come to symbolize hope, faith, and progression. It seems as if the turtle has been disrupted along his journey, but when I started thinking more about it it dawned on me that Joad had actually given the turtle a lift and thus saved him time and energy on his journey.

Steinbeck is blunt. Once you start nodding off he throws something in there to wake you and shake you. For me it started with, "He always said you got too long a pecker for a preacher." Then it followed through with the details of Uncle John eating a shoat and I was reminded why I am a vegetarian. Uncle John just took it a little too far in my opinion.

I laughed at the joke about breeding the houses together to get a whole litter of crap houses.

I know all too well about mucus in the nose drying to a crust, especially between times of high humidity and dry air.

Also, Joad's brother is named Noah and I wonder if that'll come to be representative of something else later in the novel.