John Steinbeck

Americans use that helps contribute to worldly matters, not only monumental events, but even the trivial events that shape society. It is unique because it changes every day with new events happening and people adding more to the American voice. John Steinbeck was a big contributor to the American voice in the 30’s and 40’s during the Great Depression era. He grew up in a hardworking family with some financial adversity; his mother-a schoolteacher and his father moving from job to job trying to…

“The Grapes of Wrath” is a novel craftily written by John Steinbeck during the natural disaster in the “dirty thirties” known as the Dust Bowl. Seeing as how this was an issue of high importance, Steinbeck decided to dedicate his novel to sharing a story of a typical family and the roughness endured during the times. “The Grapes of Wrath” is a didactic- it was designed to impart education of the Dust Bowl and the daily struggles of an ordinary family during this time. Within this novel is where…

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses the unconventional, intercalary chapters in the structure of this novel. These intercalary chapters are a narrative technique in which Steinbeck informs the reader about the economic impact of the Great Depression upon the common farmers in the U.S. during that time. In chapter 11, Steinbeck uses the intercalary chapter technique to describe the incoming of the modern tractors and the effect this modernization had on the land the farmers had occupied.…

John Steinbeck brings his realistic books and stories to life through his firsthand experience in Salinas, California (“Of Mice and Men” 241). He was born in Salinas and became very familiar with the people that lived and worked there (“Of Mice and Men” 241). Throughout Steinbeck’s life, he gained first hand experience with migrant laborers and a number of other events that influenced his writing (“Steinbeck, John” 230). Because Steinbeck lived in California, he also grew up in an environment of…

The Bond Between George and Lennie Sometimes, under certain circumstances, relationships are hard to understand. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the friendship of two men is told. George and Lennie are migrant workers that are travelling in pursuit of beginning their new job as ranchers. Their relationship is definitely not like others, and can be hard for some people to understand. George and Lennie’s complex relationship is identified through their difficulties,…

John Steinbeck is famous for the way he describes realistic and naturalistic features throughout the book “Of Mice and Men.” Most of Steinbeck’s books had some kind of fate or injustice in the book. In the book “Of Mice and Men” Lennie had a fate from the beginning of the book. John Steinbeck showed his ability to describe this in the use of realism and naturalistic ways. In the first paragraph John Steinbeck was able to use his ability to describe realistic features in a very forward way. In…

it like growing up during the 1900’s when familes were left poverty stricten? John Steinbeck’s childhood- growing up during the Great Depression, working many jobs, and experiencing horrible sites- played a major role in why he became a writer and what influenced his writings. Steinbeck soon became popular around the world because of his personalized novels. Inspired by his own life experiences and hardships, Steinbeck wrote notable novels including Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, and East of…

most people do not reach their dreams. This novel is called Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and it is about two men who are working towards their dream and at the place they are working at, they encounter several characters that have dreams too. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Curley’s wife experience shattered dreams in the way that they are never achieved. In this novel, John Steinbeck shows the dreams of George and Curley’s wife and how determined they are to…

Steinbeck's Use of Foreshadowing in Of Mice and Men Every action a character takes is just a means to the end. No matter how small that action is it has some correlation to the story’s conclusion. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is an amazing work of classic literature and to the careful reader the ending is clear before the novella is even finished. Of Mice and Men is the story of two migrant, or traveling, workers by the names of George and Lennie, that search for work in the middle of the…

Men is about Lennie and George trying to make a living during The Great Depression while facing a world of cold-hearted people who will do anything to make it to the top. John Steinbeck uses victimization, internal conflicts, and detachment to show isolation and the need for companionship in his novel Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck illustrates the effects of isolation and need for companionship through victimization in Of Mice and Men. Candy is one character who acquires being left behind or…