The novel, Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck, characters live on Cannery Row during the Great Depression in Monterey, California. ... Steinbeck agrees when he writes " In 1935 Mr and Mrs.Sam Malloy moved into the boiler...you had to get down on your hands and knees(Steinbeck 48). ... Steinbeck states, "then it was that Mr. ... Steinbeck states,"He committed- he killed himself ...'... John Steinbeck depicts the fallen economy with a party for Doc. ...

• Word Count: 767
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck travels with his poodle in his camper across America to discover his country and validate his status as an American author. ... Charley acts as a friend along the journey by providing Steinbeck with worthwhile advice. ... Charley acts as a source of connection between Steinbeck and the people he meets. ... Charley also serves as an ambassador between Steinbeck and the readers themselves. ... In doing so, Steinbeck softens his observation of the lack of American roots. ...

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John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, takes place during an era in the Depression known as the Dust Bowl. ... "John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, to Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, and John Ernst Steinbeck on February 27, 1902."... John Steinbeck's father owned much of the farm land in the Salinas Valley, where John worked fruit picking, and doing odd jobs to earn some extra money when he was a young man in the 1920's and 1930's. ... "The countryside described at the beginning of the book, and the ranch itself, would have been very familiar to John Steinbec...

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The Grapes of Wrath, written by author John Steinbeck, is a novel of American literature, which is very historically based. ... John Steinbeck used the Great Depression as a basis for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. ... John Steinbeck begins to portray the struggles of the Joads right from the start of The Grapes of Wrath. ... (French 45-48) John Steinbeck showed how the Joads had many hardships, and most ended in tragedy and despair. ... John Steinbeck has distinctively portrayed the struggle of the Great Depression within this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1234
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

But even as Steinbeck explains his belief in the factuality of this American motto, he also highlights those discrepancies or paradoxes which make this teleology ironic. ... The Dream of the American Dream John Steinbeck, in his essay America and Americans, uses many contradictions to explain his views on the American Dream. ... One of the first contradictions Steinbeck uses that I have personally experienced is, We are alert, curious, hopeful, and we take more drugs designed to make us unaware than any other people. ... Another example of a contradiction Steinbeck uses in his essay that I hav...

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• Grade Level: High School

Grapes of Wrath focuses on both the situation of migrant workers during the Dust Bowl as a whole, as well as the situation of a single family during the event, the Joads. Each chapter fluctuates between either the macro view or the micro view. One chapter will be devoted to the workers, the next to...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinback, depicts the struggles and obstacles that many families had to overcome during the late 1930's. ... John Steinback's portrayal of the Great Depression through The Grapes of Wrath is precise and accurate in many ways such as the mentality and actions of different people during that time. In 1936, John Steinbeck conducted research on the families forced to move to California from Arkansas and Oklahoma. ... For example, when the bank kicks the Joads off their land Steinbeck describes the arrival of the tractors. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In addition, John Steinbeck would not have gotten his message across in the novel. ... This chapter is a symbolic chapter, providing insight into Steinbeck's views on nature and man. ... In chapter 8, the reader meets Uncle John's beat up car, and associates this with the Used Car dealer and the confusion of the farmers. ... Steinbeck is a literary genius, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he inserted these interchapters. ...

• Word Count: 646
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• Grade Level: High School

Grapes of Wrath Review The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck; it tells a story about the struggles of migrant farmers during the Great Depression. ... He tells them that the bank ran them off the property and the family is at Uncle John's house. ... They camp out and then walk to Uncle John's place in the morning. ... I did however think that Steinbeck did a very good job at blending them into the book. ... John Steinbeck did an exceptional job at displaying the Great Depression and showing all the pain that everyone went through. ...

• Word Count: 988
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A critic once said that an important part of an excellent literary work is the ability of the piece to produce a mix of delight and uneasiness in the reader. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath produces a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude by means of the good and bad. Bonds were forme...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Dust Bowl was a huge influence on John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. ... Steinbeck writes "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. ...

• Word Count: 1018
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• Grade Level: High School

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men, is a novel recounting the events and conflicts migrant workers confronted during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. ...

• Word Count: 497
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The novel The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a story that takes place in the 1930's, the time of the depression and the dust bowl. ...

• Word Count: 554
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• Grade Level: High School

It's the summer of 1932, and it's time to go to work. But unfortunately, there's no work to go to. It's been like this a couple of years now. There were problems with the economy before, but it all came crashing down (no pun intended) on October 29, 1929. Job was lost shortly thereafter, and th...

• Word Count: 971
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School