My Opinion on "The Grapes of Wrath"

The Grapes of Wrath was not a book that I enjoyed very much. I found it boring. I also thought it was odd that only half of the chapters were about the Joads, and that the other half were about other things. While the other chapters did tie in to the story, it would have made more sense to just explain what had happened to the Joads, and not the rest of America. The chapter about the turtle in the beginning threw me for a loop, because I was expecting the whole book to be about one family, like all of the rest of the books I have ever read. I also think that the characters should have all been developed equally, because some were developed more than others. The people that I was the most curious about were the ones that were not as developed. I would have liked to see their whole personality, not just how they act in one situation. It would have been more interesting to see Rose of Sharon while she was happy at one point instead of just always being upset. I also would have liked to know more about Ruthie and Winfield. There was not very much about them, because they always ran away. It seems like the author wanted to keep them away during the book because he did not want to have to explain them or write much about them. In my opinion, if the author did not want to include Ruthie and Winfield very much, then it may have just been easier to exclude them from the book. I did kind of enjoy The Grapes of Wrath, though. It showed how life was during the Great Depression and explained what the farmers and their families had to go through. It was also nice to see the individual struggles of everyone in the family. While The Grapes of Wrath was a decent book, I did not really enjoy it and I thought the ending was not satisfying at all.