Here, the protagonist is a 14-y/o Bille Jo Kelby who’s still studying and only plays a piano to help the family and she has no milk yet. At least, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers of Grapes was healthy and her milk could feed the dying man. The Joad family has 2-4 healthy men unlike here where there is only the father Bayard who works alone in the farm but unfortunately gets cancer in the middle of the story. The Kelby family has no choice but to stay and wait for their death. your father has cancer and one time you found him digging his own graveAt least the Joad family, in Steinbeck 1940 novel is an extended one and the men were able to work in the farm so they left Sallisaw for California. you cannot play piano anymore because your hand got burned too you set your pregnant mum on fire and when she gave birth, she and the infant died Imagine: - you are an only child and all of you, your father and mother, are all bone and skin because of poverty. It is just too sad that even the harrowing experience of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s magnum opus, "The Grapes of Wrath", can’t compare. Yes, this won that medal (1998) because the beautiful verses toned down the gloom and sadness that even a middle-age man Asian guy like me felt while imagining what happened to the Kelby family during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl in 1934-1935. This story is so dark and gruesome that if it were put in prose and not in verse, would probably not pass the standard of the judges for the Newberry Medal.
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