It’s always interesting to see things swapped around. Words have a meaning, but if someone gives that word an even bigger meaning it could make some action. Steinbeck is determined to find out why America turned out the way it is, as it states in the book Travels With Charley, “ We do not take a trip, a trip takes us,” (Steinbeck 4) gives the readers a bigger perspective on how a journey could instead teach anyone. People always expect to learn things fast, but the truth is some situations take a lot more digging. When someone's plans something they tend for the items to go exactly as planned, but that's not the case. “ The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it,” (Steinbeck 4) we all have to be aware that not every single thing
There are many authors, poetry writers, and novelists around this world, but what make them into a famous author or writer? One of the famous American writer was John Steinbeck. He earned a Nobel prize of literature from his American classic novels that he had written in the past. The Nobel prize was not the only award that he had earned for his literature, he earned different awards for his writings also (John Stein..). John Steinbeck is a man who had overcome different obstacles and being successful in life.
John Steinbeck’s tone throughout Travels with Charley can be described as witty or comical. Through the way that he described his dog Charley, for example, I noticed that he often times made him seem like he was a human in a humorous way. Even after a traumatic experience at Yellowstone National Park, he managed to keep it light, describing Charley as “a man coming out of a long, hard drunk- worn out, depleted, collapsed” (Steinbeck 165). It was interesting picturing a dog acting like a drunk human. How he was able to keep a comical tone throughout the novel is what drew me in and kept me interested.
In Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, the gopher story parallels the story at the beginning about the silk worm. Steinbeck used the story to portray his approach to writing the book and “let the stories crawl in by themselves”. It sets up the book as the gopher story closes it out. The gopher seems to convey the overall destiny of Cannery Row. They start out in great environments. Even in the prime of the life to achieve the desires. The patience wears thin to and is convince to make a way. Then there is an acceptance of doing what they have to truly be satisfied. Even if it means risking being uncomfortable and trapped, what their hearts desire is worth it. The story ends open ended, leaving the reader unsure of the fate that is ahead.
Have you ever dreamed of becoming someone important or doing something exciting and memorable? Would you give up or refuse to let go of your dream until you achieve it? Has that obsessive under-minded your success? Many people have dreams that they want to accomplish, but there are obstacles individuals have to cross over in order to achieve their goals, such as facing reality. In the book of Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the story is a tale of two drifters working from farm to farm, trying to make a living, and save some money to have their own place someday, which is their dream during the Great Depression. The characters face the hardships
Steinbeck shows that trips are not taken by you but that they can change you and take you places you would never have thought of going. In his novel he writes,” We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip: a trip takes us.” (Steinbeck 4). John Steinbeck finds that his feelings about trips happen to him too. Steinbeck finds out that his trip has taken him to people and places that are different then he expected. In Travels With Charley he said,”the conversation of the farmer stayed with me-a thoughtful, articulate man he was. I couldn’t hope to find many like him.” (Steinbeck 32). Steinbeck didn’t think he would find more like that farmer but his trip took him to different people. Overall, Mr. Steinbeck finds a way to write his feelings in such a way so that his reader can relate to
	 John Steinbeck was a famous American author who wrote from the 1920 to the 1940. Steinbeck was constantly moving across the country trying to succeed as a writer. John Steinbeck lived a life of constant up and downs, successes and failures before he landed on his feet and became a famous author.
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.” John Steinbeck said this of all humankind. He thought highly of us as a species, just as Dr. Stockmann did in Henrik Ibsen’s play Enemy of the People. Both men had problems in their societies, Stockmann in his town and Steinbeck in America, and both believed that humans were capable of seeing the problem and fixing it. The rest of the population did not see this as the case. They believed he was an enemy of the people and a threat to their way of life. Because of how Steinbeck expressed his views, people felt threatened by what he wrote and they called him a threat to
Pets can be a man's best friend. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the change is negative, other times it is positive, either way, there is no avoiding change. Animals are nice, protective, and crazy.
What suggestion might Steinbeck have left for us in the opening chapter as he describes the conditions of the families?
Another way, Steinbeck shows How Gorge is a true friend to lennie is through how reliable he is to Lennie. An example of this is Lennie was left alone with Curley's wife in the barn and accidently killed her, by him doing this it made all the workers want to kill him. But instead of them killing Lennie George went off and “pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again, Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand and lay without Quivering,” (106) This quote shows how Gorge is a true reliable friend because A true friend will do whatever they think is good for you. Just like how George went off and killed lennie, so that way he didn’t have to go through even more hell. This shows readers that
Lennie paced around the room, pounding his fists on any wall he could find. With a sour face, he checked every nook and cranny between the page and the text for something taking on the form of a door. A way to escape.
In the book Of Mice and Men there are three people I feel sorry for, and their names are George, Lennie, and Crooks. First, I feel sorry for George because of the fact that he always has to be around Lennie to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t do any stupid things. For example when George had to ask Lennie to stop drinking water from the river multiple times. (Steinbeck, 3).
George raised his gun, his hands shook violently two centimeters from Lennie’s head. “I can’t, Lennie, I can’t.” George dropped the gun.
The author I chose to compare and contrast two of his works is John Steinbeck, and the two works I chose is “The Cannery Row” (1945) and the Winter of our Discontent” (1961). The first story “the Cannery Row” takes place during the Great Depression in Monterey, California and a well market place were hard working go every day in a lower level part of town. This story surrounds a group of hard working individual who have a different outlook on what society thinks the typical successful person is. My second story, however doesn’t take place during the Great Depression, but does involve a very wealthy family that over time eventually became broke. During this story one family member does whatever it takes by any means necessary to put his family back on top after being pressured by the locals after his family name hits rock bottom. Even though both stories take place years apart the both have similarities to the characters that are in the stories.
People populate the same place, same space, and same planet. People do not see the world in the same way. John Steinbeck’s quote from Travels With Charley contextualizes his beliefs that there are two types of people, defined by the ways they travel through life. Maps can be formed, used, and stored in many different ways. Steinbeck expresses to his readers that while maps are important to any traveler, people who take pleasure in being guided through life by maps are different from people who live amongst an ever evolving map that constructs itself behind the steps of true explores and adventures.