Essay on John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was one of the great authors of his time. He was the winner of a Nobel Prize, and among other accomplishments. Many of his experience and knowledge are incorporated throughout his stories. Steinbeck strived to accomplish everything that he did during his lifetime. Nothing came easy and he had to work hard to earn everything in his life. This experience and hardship helped him with his writing, as he was able to write about real people and experiences. Steinbeck got his inspiration from life experiences, people he knew, and places he had visited.

Everyone has a life history, John Steinbeck also has a history of his own. His life story began on February 27, 1902, in the farming town known as Salinas from California (Schillinglaw). He had four siblings, but he was the only boy in the four. Olive Hamilton Steinbeck was his mother and she was a former teacher in that time period. The town where he grew up at, was a farming town and still a farming town, it has rich green fields and surrounded by landscapes of broad yellow valleys. He and his family had lived a comfortable life as a middle class family during his childhood (Shmoop). When Steinbeck was done with high school, he worked for many places and different kinds of jobs which were a laborer for a sugar factory in Salinas, a laborer in mills, and a ranch hand (Reuben) .John Steinbeck went to Stanford University and majored his English there, but he had never receive any degree (Reuben). In 1925, after he had worked hard in studying, John decided to leave

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. John decided to be a writer at the very young age of fourteen. “John used to lock himself in his bedroom and to be alone and write stories and poem”(John Steinbeck Biography). John was the first in his family to have a striving desire to become a writer, his father did everything he could to keep food on the table and his mother was a former school teacher. To do this he worked several jobs at a time, he never got to enjoy what he does like Steinbeck went on to do. John went on to try to be a freelance writer, so he work as a construction worker and a newspaper reported in New York, New York. He wrote his first novel called The Cup of Gold while living in Lave, Tahoe working as a caretaker. John went on to marry Carol Henning. She was supportive by working several jobs to help him continue with his writing career.

In this novella, I developed a thesis statement, which is: The pearl kept Kino moving forward because it represented hope during a period in his life. I chose this thesis statement because one of the aspects that makes this story move forward is Kino’s hope and greed; even if this greed is based on his hope. Steinbeck quotes: “Every man suddenly became related to Kino’s pearl, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so he became curiously everyman’s enemy” (Steinbeck, 27).

Steinbeck, who was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. He was the only boy and the third child of Olive Hamilton and John Ernest Steinbeck. He had two older sisters, Beth and Esther and one younger sister Mary. Steinbeck attended college at Stanford University in 1919 until 1923. He went to college on and off for six years, but never received a degree. After college, in 1925 he moved to New York City. Realizing that he couldn’t find a job, Steinbeck decided to move back to California. When he returned in 1929, he completed his first novel Cup of Gold (http://www.steinbeck.org/pages/john-steinbeck-biography).

	John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He was the only son and the third child of John Ernst Steinbeck and Olive Hamilton. Steinbeck’s father owned comfortable Victorian house in Salinas. John’s father managed the Sperry Flour Mill. Things were pretty good for the Steinbeck, they were settled in a nice home they did not have to many financial problems, but then economic

The 1930's were a decade of great change politically, economically, and socially. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl wore raw the nerves of the people, and our true strength was shown. From it arose John Steinbeck, a storyteller of the Okies and their hardships. His books, especially The Grapes of Wrath, are reflections of what really went on in the 1930's. John Steinbeck did not write about what he had previously read, he instead wrote what he experienced through his travels with the migrant workers. "His method was not to present himself notebook in hand and interview people. Instead he worked and traveled with the migrants as one of them, living as they did and arousing no suspicion from employers militantly alert against

Mr. John Deere was born in Rutland Vermont in 1804, and grew up in nearby Middlebury. Deere was just four years old when his father, William, was lost at sea and never returned leaving his mother, Sarah Deere, to raise him. Deere was not an only child, living with five brothers and sisters in a moderately poor family so there was no leftover money for education.

unable to come to terms with a world at war, though he served for a few

Steinbeck had a relatively normal childhood growing up in Salinas Valley California. Steinbeck was born on February 27 1902 in Salinas Valley, California. His father was John Steinbeck Sr. who worked as the Monterey County Treasurer, and his mother, Olivia, worked as a school teacher. Steinbeck mother

John Wade’s life reflects a “riches to rags” scenario. While writing in third person and the use of flashbacks, the author describes John as unstable. He describes his condition as stated on page 188, “He had a momentary glimpse of himself, as if through a camera lens. Ex-sorcerer. Ex-candidate for the United States Senate. Now a poor hung-over putz without a trick in his bag.” John Wade, the protagonist, made impulsive decisions in his past, present-day, he lost everything he had due to his previous judgments. Glimpsing at himself, John reaches a moment of self-realization as to his current mental state and how it affects his life.

     John Steinbeck wrote about what surrounded him. At the time he was writing, the nineteen-thirties, a great depression was plaguing the United States. Many people were out of work. Many farmers were losing their farms and homes. An extreme drought had also wrecked the farms of the Midwest and made them into what is now referred to as the "dust bowl". It was a terrible time to be poor, and most were. People died of malnutrition every day. In California, where Steinbeck resided, migrant workers dominated the workforce. Thousands traveled from all around to pick fruit in the farms of the Salinas Valley for minuscule wages. Thousands more could not find suitable

He was born February 7th, 1902 in Salinas, California. His mother Olive Hamilton had been a teacher, and his father was John Ernst Steinbeck, who was a manager at the Sperry Flour mill. He had 3 sisters, Esther, Beth and Mary. From the time he was 14, he wanted to be a writer. He wrote short stories about where he lived. His father lost his job when John was a teenager, and his father tried opening a feed & grain store, but it failed. John went to Stanford University in 1919 (but stayed there for 6 years without getting a degree). His father became Monterey county treasurer. He wrote these novels, screenplays and stories: East of Eden, The Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Sea of Cortez, Cup of Gold, To a God Unknown, Pastures of Heaven, The Long

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on the 27th of February 1902 to John Ernst Steinbeck Sr. and Olive Hamilton, who started his love for literature. He was the youngest of three, the two older siblings being girls. Growing up in Monterey County with its diverse demographic was calm and comfortable, imprinting his sensibilities. He greatly admired it’s prosperous farming community, which consequently gave him a strong sense of place. And so, he wanted to write his stories based on the common man - specifically those who lived in Salinas Valley.

Born on February 27 of 1902 in Salinas, California, John Steinbeck grew up with his mother Olive Hamilton, who was a former school teacher and his father John Ernest Steinbeck who had multiple jobs in efforts to support his family, ranging from managing a flour plant to taking on the role as Treasurer of the Monterey County. Steinbeck grew up with three sisters; Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, Esther Steinbeck Dodgers, and Mary Steinbeck Dekker. In his childhood he was shy and would close himself up in his room to write poems and stories with his favorite book Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. It is said that Steinbeck “received his love of literature from his mother, who was interested in the arts” (John Steinbeck Biography).