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- 41: Of Mice and Men: Mini-Critique
- Of Mice and Men: Mini-Critique John Steinbeck was born in Salinas California on February 27, 1902. His mother was a school teacher in the public school in Salinas. Steinbeck grew up in the beautiful Salinas Valley which furnished most of the material for his novels. His mother read to him, at an early age, famous literature of the world which planted a seed in his imagination. He entered Stanford in 1920, remaining there until 1925 but never graduating. In 1930 Steinbeck married Carol Henning. Steinbeck died in 1968. After college, Steinbeck moved to New York, where he worked briefly for the old New York American newspaper and helped with the ...
- 42: Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men: Character Study
- Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men: Character Study The American Novelist, John Steinbeck was a powerful writer of dramatic stories about good versus bad. His own views on writing were that not only should a writer make the story sound good but also the story written should teach a lesson. In fact, Steinbeck focused many of his novels, not on average literary themes rather he tended to relay messages about the many hard truths of life in The United States. Upon winning the ... were forced, in the same way as the Joads, to leave their homes to look for work during the depression. It is in this fact that one can see how Steinbeck's intention in "The grapes of Wrath" was to depict the hardships people went through during an actual event in American history. Perhaps the most solemn message in this ...
- 43: The Grapes Of Wrath 6
- Common Ground In many of John Steinbeck's works there are themes and elements that parallel his other works. Steinbeck often tackles the result of people's bad fortune and the realization that their dreams have been destroyed. We can see that in his Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath and his critically acclaimed novel Of mice and Men Steinbeck shows us the results of people having their dreams destroyed. Steinbeck shows us that in his work he gives different characters similar goals and aspirations and has them destroyed ...
- 44: The Grapes Of Success
- ... there emerge writers who publish works to deeply affect readers, people of power, and even the government by bringing controversial subjects, perhaps previously ignored or unknown, to the spotlight. John Steinbeck, winner of the Nobel Prize, is one of these writers. The Grapes of Wrath is a work which compromises nothing to function as John Steinbeck's social statement and plea; a novel in which he protests against the treatment of the migrants by land-owners and the natives of California, and strikes a sympathetic and ... experience: the murder of their former preacher and good friend Casy, the constant harassment by the deputies, ugly nicknames, depressing camps, and a tired lack of jobs. Through this story Steinbeck refuses to let the plight of the migrants remain impersonal and distant. He gives the American people a way to understand exactly what was going on by turning the ...
- 45: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... the land. The main characters by Chapter 30 all have undergone an "education." The suffering has changed them, has redeemed them. The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck which begins in Oklahoma and leads to California, first published in 1976, which exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived ... a social document, the novel presents such a vivid picture of oppression and misery that one tends to doubt its authenticity." Daryl F. Zanuck even hired private detectives to verify Steinbeck's story who reported that the conditions were even worse than those depicted in the novel. However, Steinbeck was not without defenders. Magazines such as Life ran feature stories on the plight of the migrants, and before the novel was made into a movie the director sent ...
- 46: Cannery Row By John Steinbeck-
- Cannery Row By John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. Cannery Row is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first sentence of the book, describes Cannery Row as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, ...
- 47: Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of the Joad family's migration west to California ... life out the land by forcing the people off of that land. The soil and the people have been drained of life and are exploited. The Grapes of Wrath combines Steinbeck's adoration of the land, his simple hatred of corruption resulting from materialism and his abiding faith in the common people to overcome their hostile environment. The novel opens ...
- 48: John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
- John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle" is a relentlessly fast-paced novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in ... of his comrade and friend, Mac made a strong rousing speech, urging the workers to stick together, and win the strike. There are very few characters in this novel that Steinbeck develops throughly. There are about six characters that we come to know. They are Jim Nolan, the main character, Mac, a secondary main character that is a Communist Labor ...
- 49: The Moon is Down: The Effects of War
- ... growing. They remained indoors and stared from behind curtains while the patrol walked through the town. Lieutenant Tonder was a romantic naive poet who felt the enemy should love him. Steinbeck presented Tonder as "a bitter poet who dreamed of perfect, ideal love of elevated young men for poor girls" (25). When Lieutenant Tonder first arrived in town he thought that ... with" (95). Molly hides a pair of scissors in her dress which she uses to kill Lieutenant Tonder, who trusts Molly (Lisca 196). In the novel, The Moon is Down, Steinbeck shows us how war affects different people. Lieutenant Tonder started out as a poet who romanticized war. He ended up losing control. He felt that instead of being one of ... because of his position in the interest of order based upon senseless violence. According to Richard Astro, "But despite his love for this world and the people who inhabit it, Steinbeck orders his novel to show beyond all doubt that it is as doomed to eventual extinction as the world of Colonel Lanser's overly integrated soldiers in The Moon ...
- 50: Chrsanthemums
- By: Anonymous The Chrysanthemums, by John Steinbeck, is set in the beautiful valley of Salinas, California, during a time when California was the land of plenty. A place where dust storms and drought were unheard of, where ... is struggling to hide her real feeling of pain from her husband. She is anticipating a dreadful future in which she pictures herself “crying weakly like an old woman.” Clearly Steinbeck’s is particularly sensitive to the effect of landscape on a person’s life. Because Elisa Allen’s sense of her own self-worth is so closely tied to the land, Steinbeck has chosen to connect her psychical existence to the season, the climate, and the terrain she inhibits. The mood of the story is set by his description of a ...
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