MY FAVORITE 4

"He was a broad, bandy-legged little man with a walrus mustache, with square hands, puffed and muscled on the palms."

I really like this part because it explains how he looks so detailed and in just the right words, plus he looks a lot like my grandpa minus the mustache. When he says "He was..." that just sets it up for a good sentence but the rest of it makes billy, billy.

" In the shade of the sagebrush the little birds were working, scratching in leaves, flying restlessly a few feet and scratching again. Jody pulled back the rubbers of the sling and advanced cautiously."

"The rubbers of the sling." I would never think of that! Steinbeck is so clever. The wordiing is very well writin and the S's in the begining "In the shade of the sagebrush." Made me think of Eleanors "Walk" story.

"This assortment scrabbled unhappily against the tin of the lunch bucket."

Before Jody returns from his march of grey tigers and trumpeting he catchs an assortment of reptiles and bugs, and puts them in his lunch bucket then snaps back to reality when he gets to the fork in the road. When he gets home he gives the bucket to his mother, to get to the point I thought that this line was a good transfer line from imaginary to reality.

"Directly below him, a crow congress had convened."

Yet another thought from Jody, how Steinbeck portayed crows and people having a congress meeting was very clever (yet again), and I very much injoyed looking at it from Jodys eyes seeing the Salinas Valley and then below him is a crow congress.