Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

As vinhas da ira by John Steinbeck

18 reviews

megantyler's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Minor: Racial slurs

khgp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Grief, and Deportation

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death of parent, and Colonisation

eraserharris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

everyatom's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

The way that the Grapes of Wrath moves as a story is unlike anything else I remember reading. The story makes the reader feel the abrupt pain of

losing the family members that walk off, leave, or die

. It never feels whole or complete or like those characters'

endings

were justified. Because they weren't. And the folks they left behind weren't able to

get closure or process the absence of their loved ones. I mourned not only the characters as well as how their family was deprived of proper mourning

.

I felt the big swell of the message. Where the Joads' story and pains

got continually harsher, slimmer, and harder to comprehend

the message of the book becomes stronger and more epic in scope. The chapters between the story of the Joads' were so important to help the reader get that scope and to see the place of the Joads in the larger, unfair system. 

I'll be thinking of this book for years. Can almost guarantee. Just sits deeply in me and feels magnificent in scope, message, and pain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

An unnamed dog is hit in the road and dies in the first part of the book

kristiniad's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

gewrgia_lightwood's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

One of the best books I’ve ever come across 
Beautiful writing, brilliant story. Touching, hard, raw. 

It deals with a very real problem, a problem as relevant now as ever. The consequences of capitalism, of greed, of money as a ruler are spread thought out this book. 
If there is one thing to take away from this book is that solidarity and kindness will always be the weapon of the people. It’s at the darkest times, the people come closer, the people speak up, the people rise up. 

Μόνο ο λαός σώζει τον λαό. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, and Colonisation

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racial slurs

emilymhb's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

tilda_002's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

larseneiii's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

....why the fuck did it end like that....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Genocide, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt