Throughout his novel, Steinbeck uses many characters and thus has many examples of characterization. The way he characterizes one of his main characters, Adam Trask, is revealing as his actions are highlighted…
"In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood" (p. 6) Simile and Imagery In the chapter 1, Steinbeck uses simile and imagery to describe the environment that Joah’s family is living in, in which it brings a vivid image to the readers’ minds. Steinbeck compares the morning dust hung to fog to which we can see that dust is being used like struggles that people have to deal with everyday and seeing it as fog, we can see the large amount of struggles that people go through each day due to it the definition of fog; a dense or large layers of cloud sticking together. Moreover, he compares the sun to as ripe as new blood gives us an ominous and brooding feeling to the story. This quote helps set a struggle mood…
Dreams allow people to express hope in their daily lives and motivate them to navigate their life. All characters within Steinbeck's novel have dreams, and they use their dreams as the power to keep working. However, dreams can also cause conflict because some characters may try anything to accomplish their goals. The entire novella of Mice and Men portrays the importance of dreams, and characters seek to achieve their dreams differently.…
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden draws comparisons to the Bible throughout the whole book. The allusions to the Bible help to reinforce the fight between good and evil that is at the base of East of Eden. John Steinbeck specifically uses the choices Cal makes in contrast to Cain in the Bible to demonstrate that human kind is born evil and the choices, which are based out of a lack of self-satisfaction, people make are what make them good or evil. Cal from East of Eden is written to mirror the Biblical character Cain. There are some distinct similarities in the characteristics of both characters.…
The Gospel of John seems to display Jesus as a very powerful and persuasive person. Right from the beginning, in (John 1.1-4), Jesus has been described as though he was God. The gospel starts with the lines, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.” The detailed descriptions of the signs also promote the idea of Jesus’s greatness.…
How does one come to understand a history that has shaped us, but have not experienced it themselves? Us as people fathom a world that we come from. We do this by using something called imaginative archaeology. It is a way of thinking about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains about the facts, and processes of what was. Fiction itself is a form of prose, that describes imaginary events and people.…
His aptitude for writing was exemplified “while he was still alive and publishing, eligible for high honors and having an influential voice in world affairs” (French 1). We have learned from Steinbeck that literature can have a huge effect on society and can change people’s perspective on the issues in the world. He believed that his work could truly help people. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize he states, “I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature” (“John Steinbeck” 2). As can be seen he ingrained his mark on the American voice and left a legacy for future writers to…
(Bloom 52, 51, 53, 52). Writing in the Great Depression era influenced Steinbeck’s writing…
In middle school, there was a kid sitting at one of the lunch tables close to the middle of the lunchroom and a few tables over there was a large group of kids laughing at the kid. It was obvious that this kid was slow and he was making noise and the group of kids were laughing and making fun of him. They yelled things like “alien” and “egg head” (using more colorful language) as they mocked his movements and the noises he made. Some people aren’t treated fairly still due to the way they look or sound. American society in the 1930s was ignorant to difference and slow to change because some people didn’t care.…
Friendship is a test of faith. Faith tests friendship’s trust and support between the friends. In true friendships faith is not only tested but as well as what choices are being made. During the Great Depression faith was tested for many people, but it greatly impacted George and Lennie. Their true friendship was challenged throughout the whole book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.…
For instance, Steinbeck believes the American Dream is not real. Readers can see this in the book in many ways. Lennie…
Steinbeck writes a perfectly good explanation of what human society is. Getting hit hard with obstacles, dealing with it and learning from it. Every single person in this world goes through tough times. The author illustrates the tough times during The Great Depression in more depth. He chooses a character to carry out his theme.…
Ultimately the reader learns that the knowledge and money someone has determines whether someone will have chances and opportunities in life. Another thing Steinbeck uses in his writing is social inequality. Social inequality is based on social issues and unequalness between different classes in society. For example, in The Pearl, the doctor represents a person with wealth from an upper class, so he is considered the “haves”. While Kino and Juana represent the poor,…
The people were not asking the important questions. They didn't question why the Jews were expelled from Sighet; they chose to believe that Moshe was crazy rather than concede his story might have been true; they accepted the anti-semitic laws, and they blindly followed the orders the soldiers gave…
Through the theme of moral responsibility, he shows the reader how doing the right thing is not always easy, however it is necessary in order to help oneself and others. George’s willingness to deal with Lennie, they way he defends and protects him from harm, and his ability to do what is necessary for Lennie’s health even though it is difficult, are just three ways that moral responsibility is demonstrated best within the story. Therefore, that is how Steinbeck epitomizes moral responsibility throughout the text and how one can learn that doing what is right might not always be the easiest thing to do, but in the long run it will always bring greater results than taking the simple…