Blog #10

I think that John Steinbeck did establish sympathy for the Dust Bowl farmers in the Grapes of Wrath. The author put almost too much of sympathetic occurrences in the whole story though. At some points in the book, it seemed as if he was greatly exaggerating some of the events that had happened to the Joad family. It seemed as if not all of the bad things that happened to their family would really happen in actuality. In the beginning of the story, there were many deaths and the Joad family had the hardships of moving across the United States and of course Steinbeck arose some sympathy from me. As the hardships continued in the story, it almost seemed as if it would be unrealistic for that many bad things would happen. Of course the author put in many different options of situations that occurred, but some of it was a point of where it was too much.