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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…

just goes to show that even tho their best friends he sometimes doesn’t want him. People with differences in the 1930 's were generally not accepted because they were not "normal." In John Steinbeck 's novella Of Mice and Men (set in the 1930’sin Salinas Valley, California) we meet…

How would you feel if you had a friend and you are taking care of them and you’re not able to have all the fun in life because of them? There is a story of a boy that I previously went to school with that was bullied because he didn’t wear the newest clothing and he smelled a certain way. There was nothing he could do to change it because it was just him. He had the nicest personality but no one looked at that side of him just because of the way he appeared. He dealt with external conflicts…

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. Then soon after that he then made his book Of Mice and Men. It’s a story of two men who go to a ranch…

George is forced to endure a difficult, potentially life changing situation. George was to decide between ending his best friend’s, Lennie, life or to leave him alive but face the consequences of this decision later. The reason for this was because Lennie had committed something ethically and morally wrong, a crime. He had already killed a mouse and his own puppy but he had also killed Curley 's wife. Lennie had done this when he attempted to keep Curley’s wife quiet from all her loud screams…

My RIGHT to Bear Arms The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states; “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Recently, a man and his wife in San Bernardino, California walked into an environmental health services building where a party was taking place with two AR15’s and two pistols, opened fire on the people at the party, killing 14 people and injuring some odd more. In this…

Maria shared that for the first 5 years of their marriage, they travelled back and forth from San Luis, Arizona to Salinas, California. Maria reported that each year they would stay in a different house. Maria stated that living in Salinas was renting a room in a house where they usually had to share the house with two other families. Maria shared that Jose always worked on the lettuce fields. Jose worked picking up lettuce…

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…

Everyone has dreams for the future, some may not be realistic, and some can be reached with ease. Curley’s Wife was a character in the book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. She was a young woman living in the times of the Great Depression, and she had a dream to be an actress. She was the only woman living on a ranch in California, complacently married to a man she did not love all because she was apprehensive that her dreams were slipping away from her. She had multiple opportunities to…

where 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…