Ending of the story

Well that was kind of weird and depressing for an ending. The depressing part is simply that the baby dies after birth. I mean I was kind of hoping for a little brighter ending but no, there has to be more death in the Joad family. There is no burial for the baby, they just put it in a coffin made of what they could find and it is put into a stream and it floats away. This is kind of random, but that kind of creeps me out. I kept thinking that someone would find the coffin and want to see what is inside and then they open it and find the body of a baby. Then they might think something bad had happened to it. This is all just weird thoughts from me though. I guess I’m just weird in that sense to think of stuff like that but whatever. Anyway, this is just like really sad. But with this loss there is a gain. A man comes across the family and has been so starved that he can not eat or digest solid food. He can only have soup or drinks. There is no food so Ma Joad looks to Rose to feed this man with her breast milk because she is lactating from being pregnant. I guess that is kind of a theme for this entire novel that even with a loss there are gains in the world. Who knows, maybe this man would have died if Rose have not let him drink her breast milk. Then there would have been two deaths in the world, one of them being able to be saved. Its kind of like when Granma Joad died because they used her as an excuse to get past some police officers that may not have let them go otherwise. In both cases a major loss is used to help either a group or an individual that really needs the help.