Steinbeck

            "There cold, sullen silence fell like black snow, chilling the soldiers and filling them with fear." .
             John Steinbeck.
             The Moon is Down.
             Fear can drive a person crazy. There is almost no way to explain it. In John Steinbeck's.
             The Moon is Down, when the Nazi's invade a town, it's people become massively depressed. .
             They remain silent and avoid contact with any soldiers. Their silence and secrets frightened the.
             soldiers into imagining that on the worst could happen. They began looking for excuses not to.
             go on patrol, they left in groups, rarely ever by themselves, and they saw their own assassin.
             creeping around every corner.
             Fear is only one of the many characteristics used by John Steinbeck in this book. He goes.
             from person vs. person conflicts to using emotional characteristics to describe the feelings of all.
             major characters. He expresses these traits through the two literature movements,.
             transcendentalism and rationalism.
             In the book's exposition, Nazi's take over a small country-type town. They move into the.
             protagonist, Mayor Orden's home, and try to run everything from the mine to all the people. .
             Their goal of antagonizing everyone took a sudden turn on them. The townspeople wouldn't let.
             it bother them, they went on with their lives almost in total silence and never talking to a soldier. .
             They lived their real lives in secret, where they began rebellions against the soldiers.
             It all started after the execution of Alex Morden, the first of all the executions committed.
             by the Nazis. His widow, Molly Morden, and a round character, along with Mayor Orden,.
             helped two brothers escape from the cruel, punishing grip the soldiers had on anyone opposing.