If i am alone in a desert island and have a
chance to choose three books to read, i select the
First, i take John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of
Wrath" which offers many windows on real life in
midwest America in the 1930s. But it also offers a
powerful social commentary, directly in the
intercalary chapters and indirectly in the places and
people it portrays. Typical of very many, the Joads
are driven off the land by far away banks and set out
on a journey to California to find a better life.
However the journey breaks up the family, their dreams
are not realised and their fortunes disappear. What
promised to be the land of milk and honey turns to
sour grapes. In the same way, the hopes and dreams of
a generation turned to wrath. Steinbeck opens up this
The novel tells us that what we plan may not
going to happen. It is starkly realistic. With the
Joads as they travel, we meet the dark underside of
capitalism with its uncontrolled poverty, its inhuman
greed and human cost, and sense a fractured trust
My second choice is an encyclopedia. I like
reading encyclopedias and sometimes i spend many hours
reading and can't recognize the time passed. I can
read about animals or plants that i didn't know about
before, countries that i've never been to, different
Actually encyclopedias can't give me very
detailed informations but they let me have an idea of
anything i want to know about. And that's what i want
because i think it is better to know something about
lots of things instead of being a professor and having
no idea about anything else than a major.
Then, the third book that i choose is a religious
one. I am a muslim and i want to keep our Holy Book
with me even if i am in a desert island. Reading about
my religion makes me peaceful and also it shows me the
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