{"id":16365,"date":"2017-03-23T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:59:22","slug":"national-lampoons-vacation-is-the-best-retelling-of-the-grapes-of-wrath-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/national-lampoons-vacation-is-the-best-retelling-of-the-grapes-of-wrath-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"National Lampoon’s Vacation<\/em> Is The Best Retelling Of The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

So upon further reflection upon the book The Grapes of Wrath<\/a><\/em>, I realized that I liked it better when it was retold as National Lampoon’s Vacation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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What? You’re a skeptic? Listen, they’re the same exact story<\/em> just in different eras and with a slightly different focus.<\/p>\n

Joseph Campbell’s monomyth<\/a> cannot account for all the similarities.<\/p>\n

Consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>\nGrapes of Wrath<\/em><\/td>\nNational Lampoon’s Vacation<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broken down vehicle<\/td>\nJalopy<\/td>\nWagon Queen Family Truckster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deaths on the trip<\/td>\nGranma, Gramps<\/td>\nAunt Edna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transit of dead body<\/td>\nMother lies with dead body overnight to escape from Arizona<\/td>\nAunt Edna taken to relative’s house<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Encouraging strangers invite reflection<\/td>\nCasy, the former preacher<\/td>\nChristie Brinkley, the woman in the red Ferrari.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Danger in the Desert<\/td>\nInhospitable conditions<\/td>\nCar crash<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Theft<\/td>\nFamily eats peaches when picking<\/td>\nClark cashes a check by taking money from the motel register<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Destination disappointment<\/td>\nCalifornia closed to Okies<\/td>\nWalley World closed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Violence at destination<\/td>\nTom Joad kills again<\/td>\nWalley World guard held under gun, made to ride rides<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sequels<\/td>\n“The Ghost of Tom Joad”<\/a> by Bruce Springsteen<\/td>\nNational Lampoon’s European Vacation<\/em>, Vegas Vacation<\/em>, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

You see? The same story!<\/em><\/p>\n

Trust me, I have an English degree which uniquely qualifies me to find such obvious parallels and to write about them at great length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So upon further reflection upon the book The Grapes of Wrath, I realized that I liked it better when it was retold as National Lampoon’s Vacation. What? You’re a skeptic? Listen, they’re the same exact story just in different eras and with a slightly different focus. Joseph Campbell’s monomyth cannot account for all the similarities. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16374,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions\/16374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}