Novellas

Discrimination Discrimination is not just based on skin color, but also on age and gender. A book that shows this is John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This story is about two friends, that have a dream to live on their own farm, Lennie and George, who go to a farm where they see discrimination for the first time. The victims of discrimination in this novel are: Crooks, a black stable buck; Curley’s Wife, the farm owner’s neglected daughter-in-law; and Candy, an old, disabled housekeeper.…

The novel, “Of Mice and Men” takes place during the Great Depression, when people were trying to find jobs and make ends meet. The author John Steinbeck paints a humanistic picture of the friendship, power, and devotion between the two main characters Lennie Small and George Milton. Together they set out to achieve their American Dream of one day having their own ranch and house. As they are walking to the next ranch they set up to work at, their personalities begin to unravel. Lennie may be a…

“George raised the gun and brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. He pulled the trigger” (Steinbeck 106). Moments before, Lennie was staring across a river with his best friend, dreaming of the future. What he did not know though, was that the future would never come. The book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, takes place during the Great Depression in California. The two main characters, George Milton and Lennie Smalls, are on their way to a nearby ranch after running…

Greed: (noun) intense and selfish desire for something especially wealth,power, or food. This often overwhelming feeling is known for demoralizing a person and skewing their priorities. Greed creates an one man for himself way of thinking for the experiencing individual. In John steinbeck's parable The pearl, Kino the main character and his wife find themselves in trouble when their infant Coyotito becomes dangerously ill upon an encounter with a scorpion sting. Given the setting of Mexico in…

The literary giants of the era included F. Scott Fitzgerald, JRR Tolkien, John Steinbeck, and Margaret Mitchell. John Steinbeck was the champion of Depression-era literature. His masterpieces include The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. His books tend to be about the poor, working class, an obvious reflection of the financial turmoil in the United States of the time. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. His emotional style was popular with his readers and it allowed him to…

John Steinbeck is a world renowned author in America. He has written great novels such as: Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. In both novels, Steinbeck references The Great Depression. Steinbeck uses setting, tone, and characterization to reveal the plight of the Great Depression in these classic novels. First, Steinbeck uses California as the setting of The Grapes of Wrath. California is an Eden of sorts. The Joad family wants to live in this beautiful place. “we all live east of Eden ..…

Jim Davis's Garfield started as strip comics in 1978, and portrays the many adventures of Garfield the cat, along with his human "owner" Jon and his frenemy Odie the dog, Jon's other pet. Some of the common themes are Garfield's obsessive eating habits and his precious lasagna, his laziness, his detestation of Mondays, and his never ending effort to get the innocent, somewhat stupid Odie into trouble. The strip was so popular that several animated specials and a couple of animated shows as well…

In addition, on her essay “Skin and Toes, Ears and Hair”, she decided to discover herself and the world by her own matters. Angela explained how by riding her bicycle helped her to experiment the world and to be more independent. By feeling free outside in the city which she did not feel afraid about people and what they wanted to say about her. She expressed, “I would soon learn, would provide me with mi ticket to freedom-my first real view of the big horizon-no little brothers, no little…

It all begins within the walls of the castle in the Kingdom of Dor, with the birth of a mouse. The mouse is the last of his parent's litter. Certain he will die too, his mother, Antoinette Tilling, names him Despereaux, meaning sadness and despair. Unlike most mice, Despereaux is born with his eyes open. However, Despereaux lives, although his tiny size and unusually large ears are a constant concern among the castle mice. Even worse, Despereaux seems uninterested in normal mouse…

Throughout his career as a writer, John Steinbeck has written a plethora of many memorable novels that encourage readers against judging people in difficult moral situations. The most notable of these novels included; Of Mice and Men, The Moon is Down, and The Pearl. Through a diversity of characters, plots, and situations, Steinbeck is able to bring to light the issues of doing what is wrong for the right reason in hope of missing the judgement that comes with it. In his novels, Steinbeck…