Salinas is affordable and small in comparison to the other cities, but it looks similar to California Central Valley town in many ways, for instance dusty, dry, and functional and with little intellectual stimulation. It is known for its vivacious and large agriculture industries and also as a hometown of John Steinbeck who won Noble prize in literature. The city is full of old single family homes and apartments, ranging from unpretentious bungalows to airy luxury homes of late 20th century.…
* Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California and worked jobs such as a construction labourer and care taker, because he has experience some of the issues featured in this book first hand, or perhaps seen others experience them, we know that the issues such as the search for the American dream are true and his perspective is quite reliable.…
Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California, an area greatly impacted by the Stock market crash. And although his family was not affected as much as others, he had worked the job of a laborer and pitied those forced to this profession of loneliness and…
Many of Steinbeck’s novels could be classified as social novels. His novels usually deal with economic problems in rural labor. You can see this reflected in his novels as they are used to help tell the story. In east of Eden Steinbeck uses history two tell of two families the Trask’s and the Hamilton’s, which are his own family. Before Steinbeck became famous for his works, he first tried to be a free lance writer in New York but failed and returned to California.…
He attended Stanford University sporadically between 1920 and 1926 but did not graduate. He instead dropped out and chose to support himself by doing manual labor while writing in his spare time. His experiences among the working class of California led to a better depiction of the lives of laborers, who are the basis for many of the characters in his most celebrated novels. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II. He died of heart failure in New York City in 1968.…
About the author • Much of ‘Of Mice and Men’ is based upon Steinbeck’s life and experiences. • In the years after he failed at University he had many casual jobs, varying from newspaper work to ranch work. •…
3. Perkins, Barbara M. "Steinbeck, John." World Book Online Reference Center. 2009. [Place of access.] 31 March 2009 .…
Written by John Steinbeck, who was born in 1902 in Salinas, California, which is also the setting of the novel…
John Steinbeck was an American novelist that published 16 novels,6 non-fictions, and 5 collections of short stories. The first book that john published was called Cup of Gold.…
Literature dates back all the way to 5th century AD overtime Literary works have been develop such as novel, poems, and short stories. Short Stories are described has miniature versions of books or novels, where an author takes a tale and crams it into a ten to twenty page story. John Steinbeck is not only a well-known novelist, but also writes short stories like “The Chrysanthemums” and “Flight”. In Steinbeck’s “The Chrysthemums” Elisa Allen is married to a negligent ranch owner. While her husband works on the ranch, Elisa tends to her chrysanthemum garden daily. One day while tending to her garden, a charming tinker man pulls up to her in his wagon and tries to make a business transaction with her. Seeing that she is not interested, the tinker strikes up a conversation with Elisa about her chrysanthemums. In the end, the tinker takes advantage of Elisa’s naïve nature and ends up crushing her spirits by throwing out her chrysanthemums she entrusted to him. In his other work “Flight” Pepé Torres is nineteen and the oldest in a family of four. With his father dead he feels that it is time for him to be a man but his mother is very protective over him and constantly belittles him with childish comments. One day Pepés’ moms request him to go into town to get salt and medicine, this is when he feels his beginning passage to manhood. When he travels into town to get the supplies he ends up killing a man that provoked him. In his culture, this is a right of passage to manhood. When he returns his mother hears of this and knows it is his time to take his journey out into the mountains. He goes through great trails in the mountains, testing his body’s limits, his character, and his survival skills. In the end the mountains over come Pepé and he dies a man. Steinbeck uses similar themes and elements in his short stories such as contemporary writing, descriptive setting, finding your identity, not going…
At a young age, John knew he wanted to be a writer. His first book that was given to him was King Arthur from his aunt. When John took a job to be a caretaker at Lake Tahoe, during this time he wrote his first book Cup Of Gold. When John wrote Tortilla Flat, it became a huge success. Another great novel was Of Mice and Men. However, his greatest novel was yet to be written. When John had finally finished Grapes of Wrath, people went crazy over it. That was his fastest selling novel of all time. That novel had won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Those were some of John Steinbeck’s biggest achievements in his life.…
John Steinbeck was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. His father was County Treasurer and his mother, a former schoolteacher. John graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended classes at Stanford University, leaving in 1925 without a degree. He was variously employed as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand and factory worker. In 1925, he traveled from Los Angeles to New York, where he was a construction worker. From 1926-1928, he was a caretaker in Lake Tahoe, CA. His first novel, "Cup of Gold," was published in 1929. During the 1930s, he produced most of his famous novels "To a God Unknown," "Tortilla Flat," "In Dubious Battle," "Of Mice and Men," and his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Grapes of Wrath". In 1941, he moved with the singer who would become his second wife to New York City. They had two sons, Thom born in 1944 and John IV born in 1946. In 1948, his close friend Ed Ricketts died, he went through a divorce, he took a tour of Russia, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 17 of Steinbecks works have been made into movies. He received three Academy Award nominations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. US President Lyndon Johnson awarded him the United States Medal of Freedom in 1964, and John soon died in 1968.…
Cited: Steinbeck, John. The short novels of John Steinbeck. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2009. Print.…
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in the small farming town of Salinas, located on the mouth of the Salinas River in California. He was the son of Olive Hamilton Steinbeck and John Ernst (French 13). Being a small town kid, Steinbeck lived close to the country. He usually worked as a farm hand on a sugar beet farm near his home (“Life of John Steinbeck”, 123Helpme). Because his mother was a school teacher, she instilled the love of writing and reading to young Steinbeck (Florence). He began to write at an early age, taking a liking to describing his life experiences in the fertile valleys of…
John Steinbeck was a known writer in the 30’s. He was known for writing about poverty in the 30’s with focus on the life of the exposed working class. His stories takes place around Salinas California where he was born. The short story Breakfast by John Steinbeck deals with the exposed people of the 30’s and their way of managing life with what they are given.…