Connections To John Steinbeck's Life

Everyday we spend alive, we make these memories that last forever. Most of us take photos and post them to our favorite social media site. We do this to share our favorite moments with our friends, while authors like to include some of their life experiences in their books. When we read these books we don’t typically realize that the authors are making connections to their lives. It isn’t until one reads interviews and other information that one actually realizes that it is all connected. John Steinbeck often connected his work to his life by writing about the state he grew up in, California, the jobs he did while writing books, and by illustrating the lives of fellow Americans. Growing up Steinbeck was born and raised in California. He spent …show more content…
When writing Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck directly connected his work to his life by providing the same jobs he usually did as a child/teenager. Mr. Steinbeck worked many years as a farmhand part time to help with high school. While taking on full time hours as a farmhand hours, Steinbeck attempted to go to college where he would drop out without gaining a degree. Likewise, George and Lennie, Of Mice and Men, worked on farms for a while before having to run and kill Lennie for his …show more content…
During the Great Depression, the market slowed down not leaving much opportunity for business access to or food. Back in Steinbeck’s time, his wife and he would steal food from the local kitchen. This may not seem like a big deal, but they had help of their friends, so their was noticeable amount of missing food. This is shown in The Grapes of Wrath, as people were likely to steal because they would be transported from camp to camp in search of work. These camps were always overfilled, so stealing became easy. While in Of Mice And Men, Lennie was tempted with stealing, even though it turned out to be that he was given stuff because of who he was (Thesing Online). Now even though it was given to him, it still had the same concept as if he stole it because he really didn’t do anything to deserve it. Steinbeck also liked describing his fellow Americans because they did a lot for America, and without that middle class, we wouldn’t be able to do anything or have anything that was really made after this