This chapter was okay. It didn't really seem like much important happened, except for the other man dashing all their hopes and dreams. It's kind of starting to reach that point where I begin to lose interest. There's been little to no action in the plot, and nothing in it is even remotely hinting at fantasy, which are the types of book I usually read.
Anyway, Wilson's car breaks down at the beginning of this chapter, so Tom and Al have to fix it. The one-eyed man they meet was kind of random. I don't really see what he had to do with anything other than he gives them things for cheap because he hates his boss for making fun of his missing eye. It was weird to see Tom get angry at someone because I just wrote in my last blog that I don't remember him ever getting angry before.
Towards the end when they're all gathered around the porch of this campground owner, this crazy man in a corner tells Pa and Tom about what California was really like for him. What an idiot. It took him until his wife and two kids died from starvation to leave California. I realise it was hard for him, but still.
Granma isn't looking so good now. Without Granpa around, she just sits there with a dazed look on her face half the time. The other half of the time, she's talking to and yelling at him like he's still alive. She'll probably die soon too. I think that would be best for everyone. That sounds mean and callous, but I have reasons for thinking that. If she didn't have to eat, that would be more food for the rest of the family, and they wouldn't have to worry about her anymore. She also wouldn't have to keep mourning Grampa's death. The only bad thing would be that she wouldn't be able to be buried next to Grampa. And the fact that she would be dead, of course.
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