John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... Also existing with each are parallel meanings of these settings when they are thought of literally and also collectively with the thoughts of memories. ... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... The poem contrasts spring and all of its beauty, to death and...

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Steinbeck's later publications include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Sort Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), Journal of Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata! ... He keeps to the back roads and stops only in country towns most of the time. ... Throughout the entirety of the novel, Steinbeck's relationship with Charley seems to parallel his overall relationship with society itself. ... In contrast, Steinbeck incorporated...

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• Grade Level: High School