In my opinion the balance between the “zoomed out” chapters and the regular chapters was not mind grabbing at all. Zoomed out chapters distracted me so much that it took away from what story was suppose to be about. It was dull, boring, slow, and got me off track of the storyline. Way too descriptive in the zoomed out chapters. Consequently, these unnecessary "zoomed out" chapters are what ultimately ruined the story as a whole.
Zoomed out chapters weren’t helpful in the book. For example, when you’re reading about Tom Joad and the truck driver talking,and then suddenly switch to an entire chapter about a turtle crossing the road, and then back to a chapter about Tom Joad and Jim Casey meeting Muley. Every other chapter has major jumps, and sometimes don’t even relate to each other.
The book was uninteresting because of how slow paced it was. It made me want to put the book down because of how little happened, and the way things were told in the book. For example, even though the turtle chapter was clearly random, in my opinion, it had one action part in it but after that, you don’t get much of it anymore. I believe that the more action it would’ve had given me much more interest.
The “zoomed out” foreshadowed and symbolized different things throughout the book. They could have inserted them as clips in the normal chapters instead of making them full on “zoomed out” chapters that made them seem very irrelevant to the story. These chapters that were very broad meant something later in the book. For example, when the turtle was crossing the road and almost got hit, then Tom picked him up, then put at symbolized the farmers and croppers going West to California.
In conclusion, because of the random chapters in the book, they had a big impact on future situations. Although they symbolized something, me and my fellow classmates wouldn’t read the book again, because it had a huge impact on us.
