“I keep tellin’ ya, I ain’t got nothin’ to do with them no more! Pa’s got someone else he can look after, and who can look after him. It ain’t mine or Rosie’s business. I don’t wanna hear a word about bein’ a bad son - he wasn’t there for me growin’ up. He just threw me and Rosie into the spotlight and expected us to be the perfect little stars. Well, I didn’t want to be an actor, how about that? But did he ever talk to us about what we wanted? You bet he didn’t!”
Tom took in a deep breath, steadying himself again. “Y’know, it ain’t easy having a pa who prides himself in bein’ lazy. Enough to call himself a pirate of doin’ nothin’! But of course he adopts that scallion and suddenly he’s the perfect pa? Bull. Shit.”
Tom Grape’s been getting involved from a distance, despite claiming to want to stay away. Should he be welcomed back with open arms, or is the sour grape a rotten idea?
Tom? I haven’t heard that name in years. Not as long ago as Rosie, but still…
If Jonah and all these reappearing asparagus have taught me anything, we ALL deserve second chances
John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.
HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford
Valley of the Dinosaurs // Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch // Korg: 70,000 BC // The Tom and Jerry Show // The Great Grape Ape // The Mumbly Cartoon Show // The Scooby-Doo Show // Dynomutt, Dog Wonder // Clue Club // Jabberjaw
Reading update with Q I finished Grapes of Wrath and Johnno by David Malouf they[re straight uo books with words in them. I'm moving on to The Longest Journey . Whhy are so many gay men writing my books
I'm reading The Grapes of Wrath for my lit class and Was Not expecting the communist subtext (not even subtext istg its just straight up stated most of the time) and when it talks about the hoards of these farmers from the midwest who were pushed to california just to be treated as less than for being poor when they were pushed there because of that. and them fighting back??? I was going to write this book off from the interpretations I'd seen after a quick google, but man is it a good read.