Salinas Valley

Blue Highways were written by William Least Heat-Moon. It was first published in 1982. There are 10 or 11 chapters if you include the afterword chapter. The other book I chose was called Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. It was first published in 1962. There are 3 chapters I believe in the book they are called part 1, part 2 and part 3. The book Blue Highways doesn’t have an intro or a prologue, but it has a foreword page and it talks about what you will be reading. The book Travels with…

Standing by Herself But Not Alone In her UN speech on gender and equality, Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter Film series, pointed “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are. ” Watson called out the gender inequality to the whole society and also motivated females for their rights. It has become common today to discuss the female…

Growing up there, failing a class was the least of your worries, my high school for example had a graduation rate of 60%. Know as one of the lowest performing schools in the LAUSD, but with a higher crime rate than cities like Salinas, and Compton, a close family was a necessity. I grew up letting my family know where I would be at all times, my sense of privacy didn’t really exist outside of the house. There was no such thing as not telling my parents where I was going after school…

Lennie killed the mouse that he kept in his pocket because he did not know how much strength he actually contained. The novella is about 2 migrant workers named Lennie, who has a mental disability, and George who find work in on a ranch in the Salinas Valley. Lennie often did not know the severity of his actions, which led to the killing of Curley’s wife, and the death of himself. The theme of power and powerlessness includes Lennie, Curley’s wife, and Slim. First of all, the theme of power…

religion, science and morality: where it comes from, how it’s cultivated, how it's destroyed. There is a looming mystery to evilness, an obvious existence, but latent foundation. East of Eden written by John Steinbeck follows the peoples of the Salinas Valley in California and their chaotic web of moral code. The book projects a multitude of biblical references and lessons, a number of characters based off theological ideals, but also a number designed to showcase Mankind in its rawest…

Loneliness John Steinbeck is one of the most famous American writers. He grew up on a farm in Salinas River Valley, California. Steinbeck has written many famous books. This book was written in 1937 during the Great Depression and the story is about migrant farm workers in that time. During the Great Depression, the stock market crashed and money as well as most items had no value; many people were left to fend for themselves. This novella is Of Mice and Men. In his novella, Of Mice and Men,…

Taylor Hager Kasey Lutrell English 11 2 February 2018 The Life of an Objectified Woman In the novella of Mice of Men, the author, John Steinbeck, creates a character named Curley’s wife. She is a prime example of how women during the 1930’s were treated, they were expected to stay at home and cook and clean for their husbands every single day while their man went off to work. Meanwhile, all this woman wants is love and affection, which she never receives. She has big dreams to move to…

Lennie and George are opposites in mentality and size, but they traveled together looking for work. The men have built a dream together to settle down and buy a land filled with many rabbits. This dream is jeopardized at their new job at a ranch in Salinas Valley. While at the ranch an individual character and events tempt Lennie to do something that has devastating consequences. Throughout the story, Steinbeck uses motifs and imagery to show the theme that humans have lost…

kill him instead of someone else. 2a) Poverty: John Steinbeck reveals his ideas about poverty through the setting of the novel. It is clear that the author had to set this novel during the Depression of the 1930’s, in a real agricultural valley--the Salinas Valley-- on a ranch with itinerant workers who have very little chance of achieving any financial success. They live in a sparsely…

Another highly debated book for its negative messages is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, yet teachers and educators continue to use Twain’s books for its positive implications to children. In fact, various studies show that “in the hands of a good teacher the novel can have a positive impact on racial attitude and increase interracial understanding, [as well as] giving children the opportunity identify and examine stereotypes”( Johnson 38). Many attribute the book’s continued…