Morality in Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Cannery row is a tight community that Steinbeck uses as an example of common life. A vital niche in this system of life is Mack and his gang of fellow bums. In the words of Steinbeck, “Mack is the elder, leader, mentor, and to a small extent the

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain uses Huck to demonstrate how one’s conscience is an aspect of everyday life. The decisions we make are based on what our conscience tells us which can lead us the right way or the wrong way. Huck’s deformed conscience leads him the wrong way early on in the chapters, but eventually in later chapters his sound mind sets in to guild him the rest of the way until his friend Tom Sawyer shows up. Society believes that slaves should be treated as property; Huck’s sound mind tells him that Jim is a person, a friend, and not property. Society does not agree with that thought, which also tampers with Huck’s mind telling him that he is wrong. Though Huck does not

If you were a parent would you want the best for your kids? Would you want to teach them to search out for the true meaning of dignity and respect? This was the goal of one father, Atticus Finch. Being a nearly fifty-year-old man with extremely young children he wanted to share his wisdom and firsthand experiences with his children to shape them into a respectable young man and woman. Throughout his life, Atticus is taught many experiences himself about not judging someone, and to stand up for the helpless and defenseless. Some important morals that he carried through to teach his children in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is to never judge someone by their social class or race, and to fight for the justice of all the people of Maycomb.

John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” shows how people living there dealt with the hardships brought by the Great Depression. Steinbeck set his novel in the 1930’s in Cannery Row, California. The canneries are an integral part of the fish industry and Steinbeck makes the ailing American economy a critical part of everyone’s lives in his novel. He show how different characters, with different points of view with the exact same situation.

            In the story Cannery Row Loneliness is a main theme to the characters lives.  One of these themes is Loneliness.  'He was a dark and lonesome looking man' No one loved him.  No one cared about him'(Page 6).  The severity of his solitude makes this theme one of the most important.  The seclusion of this man can penetrate ones innermost thoughts and leave them with a sense of belonging after hearing of this

The minor characters in John Steinbeck’s novel Cannery Row are a contradiction within themselves. Steinbeck shows two conflicting sides to each character; for example, Mack is smart and lazy and some of his colleagues are both good and bad. Doc is a father figure with some bad habits. Dora Flood is a kind-hearted saint who happens to run a brothel. Lee Chong is a shrewd businessman who likes to take advantage of others. Henri is an artist with a French background even though he isn’t from France. Through his characters, Steinbeck shows that humans are complicated and can have many faces.

Human behavior is a function of the environment that he/she is brought up in because it is the environment that shapes the person’s morals. This statement is openly validated in the novel Cannery Row where an inclusive community is built as a result of good morals that have been developed and shaped by the environment. Cannery Row is novel that was published in 1945 by John Steinbeck in Monterey. It was named after a waterfront street in California which had sardine caning factories. According to Grasse et al (75), fellowship and warm-heartedness is all that is required to form a united and successful community. Wealth is important part of one’s life but it should not take away the person’s happiness. Steinbeck in his work uses the characters of the novel to communicate this message in a clear and understandable manner. The name of the novel matches with the actual meaning that the writer wanted to communicate the readers. He used the name to enable the readers to be able to relate the novel’s actual meaning with authentic opinions.

“‘I been wondering for a long time… what we could do for him—something nice. Something he’d like’” (Steinbeck 42). “‘If we’re going to give him a party at all it ought to be a good one’” (Steinbeck 43). The quote represents the kindness of the community in this case Mack and the boys. They are aware Doc is a classy man and they do not want to embarrass themselves by throwing a trashy party. Thereby the take the initiative to save up and buy him nice whisky and throw a party they “won’t be ashamed of”. In cannery row, Steinbeck often uses the metaphor of the tide pool to demonstrate how all the organisms [people] live, breathe, and die together. The quote implicitly incorporates the theme of community because Mack and the boys show they are going to work together to save the money. Then through out their journey everyone becomes involved in the party planning. For instance, Mack and the boys agree to catch frogs for Doc in order to pay for the party supplies. The boys then include Gay because they need him to fix the truck that they lent the boys. Then they include Lee Chong, the Chinese grocer because they could not sell the frogs and needed to buy the supplies. Overall the boys include the town in their hectic and poorly organized party and they all happily help. Which again reinforces how as a community they come together to distract themselves from all the sorrow and hardships and focus on something exciting, the party for Doc, in attempts to be hopeful about the

American author Mark Twain was one of the most influential people of his time. Twain is perhaps best known for his traditional classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel about an adventurous boy named Huck Finn as he traverses about on the Mississippi. Under first impressions, Huckleberry Finn would be considered nothing but a children’s tale at heart written by the highly creative Mark Twain. However one interprets it, one can undoubtedly presume that Twain included personal accounts within its pages, humorous and solemn opinions on the aspects of the diverse societies around him during his life. Throughout the entire story, Huck Finn would often come into conflict between choosing what was consciously right and what was morally

Morality is not a virtue that many can tolerate without a conscience. It was considered the critical awareness of humanity's standards of conduct that are accepted as proper. Yet, for Scout, morality becomes not only a principle, but also a necessity in order for her to survive in the prejudiced society of Maycomb County. It is solely the essence of ethics that causes her to frown upon the injustices brought about by intolerance. Thus, Scout's maturity towards understanding the vitality of morality allows her to become a noble individual in an unjust social order.

The opening passage of Cannery Row by John Steinbeck reveals bit about the life of Cannery row in Monterey in California. It tells about the life of a small community but doesn’t yet truly acknowledge the protagonists of the text. The author concentrates on building a setting by using creative wording and taking account the audience of his text. In the Cannery row Steinbeck demonstrates how to use English language when describing milieu. Steinbeck creates the picture one word at a time by exploiting our senses.

“The greatest writers and the best readers know that literature is not always mere sugar candy;it can sometimes be a strong medicine:sour perhaps-at least to the untrained taste - but necessary for continued health” (1). A statement written by Professor Thomas Scarseth shows how without value in books, a reading life would never reach its intended purpose. By learning to apply knowledge that books provide through characters, we can improve ourselves as individuals. This particular book, Of Mice and Men, has values such as linguistics, sociological value, and historical value. Linguistics are shown through Steinbeck’s use of poetic devices such as imagery and repetition. Sociological value is given through the perspective of Crooks, who shows the struggle of achieving the great American Dream of having a place to call your own. Finally, historical value is provided through racism and how it affected Crooks, or any other black man at the time.

Morals. It’s true that Steinbeck's novella has morality because it expresses human problems, things that are worth doing, and a strong belief in things. Morality has a “sense of value”. Steinbeck's Novella, Of Mice and Men, has a valuable sense of morality. It draws attention to problems throughout human life.

In many of Steinbeck’s novels he incorporates vivid imagery, descriptive language, and the use of improper grammar in order to create a pure representation of the situation and time his characters lived in. Not only will reading Cannery Row enhance my own perspective of the significant effects of the Great Depression, but it will also contribute to my analysis of the various techniques Steinbeck adopts in many of his novels. Through his writing, Steinbeck was able to encourage me to chose another one of his novels by keeping his techniques consistent and his stories

John Steinbeck wrote ‘Of Mice and Men’ to show how hard life was for migrant ranch workers during the time of the Great Depression and how they were often exploited by their employers. In showing how George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own piece of land did not come true, Steinbeck explores a wider theme, criticising the idea of the American Dream. The American Dream tells people that there is ‘opportunity for each... regardless of the fortuitous circumstance of birth and position. Steinbeck criticises this as these ranch workers were given few opportunities. Settings play a very important part in the novel as they pinpoint clear times and places giving a sense of realism to the story, but they are also used to create atmosphere.