Why John Steinbeck Should Be Banned

Improved Essays
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” Each person comes up with their own version of this quote, but what’s most important from this quote is that is was once said by the infamous John Steinbeck Jr. This man became a famous author because he worked hard throughout his life. He has been through the ups and downs, books have been banned because they were so controversial, he has been awarded numerous amounts of awards, and has even been through several marriages. Even though all of this happened to him, he never once gave up. He took this energy that he had built up and expressed it through his novels.

Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was the son of John Steinbeck,

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    I chose the book Fahrenheit 451 because I enjoyed the storyline, and I am most familiar with that popular banned book. Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury in October of 1953. There have been multiple complaints from various different schools and people about this book. One of the main reasons they banned this book, is for the multiple negative connotations and references to christianity. In the book, they use God’s name in vein, which was taken offense to by many different christian readers.…

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Should Huckleberry Finn be banned in CHS? Books inspire, entertain and teaches a lesson to the reader. Some books, however, have negative influence or offensive terms that are used against a race or religion. For example the book The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is about a white boy named Huck, who fakes his death to escape his violent father and then goes down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave.…

    • 993 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hopefully this paper doesn’t become censored or banned just like Fahrenheit 451. considering the fact we need to censor certain things and situations, doesn't mean we need to over do it and ruin certain things(thoughts or ideas) for people. Looking back on the history of Fahrenheit 451, it was very controversial for its content. People were becoming very easily offended by the language, the plot, and the character actions. Thus causing the book itself to be banned and censored.…

    • 1176 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The facts that were both presented in the biography and the FBI file was how John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. Both sources stated that he attended college at Stanford University, but did not graduate. John Steinbeck written numerous amounts of books, for example The Winter of Our Discontent. Many of Steinbeck’s books were about United States citizens dealing with economic problems of rural labor, such as The Grapes of Wrath is mainly about poverty of migrant workers.…

    • 339 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In this report about Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury in the early 1950's (1953), for I will be covering the topics of temptation, the ban on books, and the importance of the people having a say in the government and what they feel is morally correct for their government and society as a whole. All of the items stated above will be compared to our world today in the United States of America. Fahrenheit 451 is an action packed story of a fireman named, Guy Montag. In this story books are banned, and anyone with the collection of any kind of book will be punished. ( The books and the house will be burned).…

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Banning of Huckleberry Finn Imagine reading a classic American novel, having to endure the word “nigger” 219 times in a 366 page book? Does this affect you? How do you feel about the occurrence of this word? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain uses this word to describe the black people of the south.…

    • 1604 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Books are challenged and banned for many reasons. One book that has been challenged many times is This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki. Although it does have some mature themes, it should not be banned due to the fact that many adolescents go through, or have gone through, similar things in their lives and it can help them see that other people understand what they are going through. Also it talks about the taboo topics we don’t talk about in society, or which could be important to their lives.…

    • 810 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Early Life On September 30, 1928, Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania. Wiesel’s parents, Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel, named him Eliezer Wiesel. Elie Wiesel grew up with three sisters-Beatrice, Hilda, and Tzipora.…

    • 1104 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Robert Frost Robert Frost, most famous for such works as “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” inspired the world with his poetry. Because most of the time he was coping with the death of a loved one, a large majority of his poems contemplate the purpose of life and what comes after death, simultaneously reflecting his constant feelings of isolation and grief. Born on March 26, 1874, to William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Modie Frost, Robert Frost lived in San Francisco for the first eleven years of his life. His mother introduced him to Shakespeare and other similar literature at an early age, instilling in him an early passion for reading and learning.…

    • 1840 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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…

    • 1070 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men dives into the lives of two men, George and Lennie, who try to escape the atrocities of the Great Depression, all the while dealing with their experiences of alienation and loneliness (“John Steinbeck (1902-1968)”). John Steinbeck is an author renowned for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, but his novella Of Mice and Men is what first put him on the writing scene (Bloom 8). After leaving college, Steinbeck went on the road and worked as a factory hand, as well a ranch hand. Working among the ranch hands gave Steinbeck’s writing an authenticity that could not be matched. Because of his experiences, Steinbeck took his knowledge of the plight of migrant workers and minorities and put it into his characters to depict the common man’s struggles.…

    • 1292 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The book I chose for banned book week is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book was published on July 11th, 1960. Harper Lee claims that this book is not autobiographical, but says there are many similarities between the story and her life. Her father was a lawyer as was Scout, who is the main character of the story. Harper said she was also a tomboy growing up similar to how Scout acts in the novel.…

    • 1170 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger was banned in Washington because of the use of profanity, drugs, sex, and suicide. The book is about a teen that got kick out of a school that he attended. He goes to New York and checks out a hotel room to stay in because he didn’t want his parents to know that he got kicked out of Pencey. The book includes Holden using profanity and him wanting to commit suicide because of all the things that were going around him. The Catcher in the Rye should not be banned because students that are going through depression and that uses drugs can learn from Holden and relate to the book.…

    • 811 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Book banning and censoring is something that happens in this country to stop children from being exposed to topics that are sometimes deemed too explicit to be suitable for children. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, keeps getting banned from the curriculum of a Mississippi middle school. This is happening for the books inclusion of rape and derogatory language, particularly the overuse of the n-word. Many also do not like how some of the characters in the novel are portrayed, and do not realize how this portrayal is very accurate to the time period. Because of the truthfulness of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, along with every other book, should not be banned or censored because books reflect and bring awareness to real life problems, the practice of banning books violates the First Amendment, and reasons for book banning are often easily contradicted.…

    • 889 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Rejected and misunderstood John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Even in high school English was his strong suite. He worked at various jobs and one in particular as a ranch hand on some of the local ranches. Later this took him to use the settings, people, and images used in Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck graduated from high school and went on to Stanford University.…

    • 1195 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays