Response To John Steinbeck's 'Out Of This Furnace'

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I want to thank for your response, it is very informative and helpful to expand my knowledge of Out of this Furnace. I appreciate how you concentrated on Kracha’s life, you provide a lot of additional information I was unaware of, so thank you. However, I feel your focus should not be so confined to just Kracha’s life, yet expand to all of the everyday workers at that time. Granted Kracha was a central character of the novel, which you explain, and how his life plays a pivotal role in the rest of the generations to come. However, restricting your explanations to just Kracha, narrows the reader's overall understanding of everyday workers at that time, because we are only reading about Kracha’s life. Moreover, I cannot clearly find in your response

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