Despite my promise to not be so ungrateful and to enjoy myself more, I think my parents sensed that I wasn't really that into the whole side trip thing. They stopped taking so many side trips everyday and stuck to the main road. Part of me felt bad, but the other part of me was too wrapped up in the Grapes of Wrath to really notice what was going on. That's right, it's the end of the world and pigs can fly because I am loving the book. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that life was so much harder back then, when I have it so easy now. During the trip the Joad family lost multiple family members and it makes me realize how lucky I am to have both of my parents alive and healthy. Reading this book has helped me to put things in perspective and I'm not taking things like an air conditioned car, for granted anymore.
On another note we've driven through the majestic Rockies and through the flat, rolling land of Colorado. We've reached Topeka, Kansas and it's really more of the same thing appearance wise. lots of green outside the city, lots of buildings inside it. I have to be honest though, I wasn't paying all too much attention because I had gotten pretty sucked in by my book. Really I never saw it coming either because I've never been one to enjoy reading until now.
One commonality between this post and a piece of literature about our region is a sense of reminiscence. When the blogger speaks of how well he has it now by saying, "Reading this book has helped me to put things in perspective and I'm not taking things like an air conditioned car, for granted anymore," it reminds me of a part in the story, A Good Man is Hard to Find because the grandchildren in that story have no respect for their grandmother, she is sort of a misfit within the family. Would things be different if the children in this family had the same new outlook as the blogger? Maybe. Also, this post shows how an experience can change someone's perspective on things. If you read the post, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" you will see that Huckleberry Finn gained a new outlook on life through an experience with his friend and eventually came to a very bold decision that he would rather go to hell than to the heaven everyone else sees because he had such different beliefs.
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