I believe the producers within “John Steinbeck and the America Experience” well incorporated the historical events and people in John Steinbeck’s life and novels in the film. The video was well presented, organized and showed significant places that took place in his life and novels. The producers were insightful and portrayed an accurate perception on John Steinbeck’s life.
Some facts that I knew about Steinbeck before watching this video, was that he was a loner and had a hard time beginning his career as a writer. Facts that I discovered about Steinbeck were that he was a journalist during the Great Depression and sold over 14 million copies of Grapes of Wrath.
Other details that I discovered in the film were the harsh working conditions
The story was written because John Steinbeck wanted to show how life was during the Great
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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
John Steinbeck is a very kind man who cares greatly for his surroundings and the outdoors. Steinbeck believes every creature around him deserves to live their life with no interference. He cares for all things that live on the planet, so why should he kill one of them. The conflicts that John Steinbeck experienced in the travel literature, Travels With Charley, help to teach people better ways to resolve their conflicts.
His writings were based on his personal experiences during his time of doing manual labor for a living (FamousAuthors.org 2012). He truly understood the difficulties of the working class people during the Depression. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Grapes of Wrath (FamousAuthors.com 2012). He was also awarded the Nobel Prize for literature (FamousAuthors.com 2012). The Grapes of Wrath was made into a movie, as well (FamousAuthors.com 2012). The book was described as “a portrayal of the merciless agricultural economic system” (FamousAuthors.org
I. John Steinbeck used his personal experiences as a laborer to write many of his novels like Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
He often includes social and political propaganda that is popular, in his writing. He wants his readers to know society for what it really is. “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”(Steinbeck) Steinbeck uses things in society to write a book that has a deeper meaning to it, to really understand the characters and their feelings one must first understand what a story really portrays. Steinbeck uses these topics to relate to society which helps them grasp not only the story but what is going on in the world around them. The author is able to make a good book that is interesting and appeals to the reader solely because of the atmosphere and real meaning of the story whether it be fiction or nonfiction. In the early 1900’s many things occurred that changed America permanently, whether it be the great depression or the dust bowl all of these events affected everyone and everything living in the US. Steinbeck lived through them, took all his knowledge and shaped them into stories. “Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it”(Steinbeck). Mankind is the cause for everything and anything that we do on this planet, Steinbeck makes these things clear through his stories that he writes. These characters that he created represent society at the time of the book
The purpose of Steinbeck's speech is to emphasize the importance of literature and how it is the key to success. What man depicts in his writing will affect how future generations learn off it. If man’s literature is a false representation of reality then learning from the past to achieve success will be futile. Steinbeck speaks that man has become like a god “We have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world - of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand”. Man has the power over history. If he leaves out the mistakes of humankind then humanity will not learn from them and repeat the same flaws once again. Therefore it is crucial that writers of
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born in the farm and ranch based town of Salinas, California to the county treasurer and his wife on February 27, 1902. Being born into a well-off family, he could afford the luxury of hopping from job to job helping ranchers and later attending Stanford University, only to leave without a degree. Altogether, he appears to be the average college student nowadays from our dreamer generation. Four years he published his first novel, Cup of Gold, and over the course of time he found his niche as a fiction writer with a focus on drawing attention to some real life issues he’d witnessed firsthand, growing up on the edge of the last frontier in the west. He ended up publishing The Chrysanthemums in 1938, recalling the
On Thursday, February 27th, 1902, John Steinbeck in Salinas, California, and was born following his two older sisters, Esther and Beth, to the parents of former educator Olive Hamilton and Sperry Flour Mill supervisor, John Ernst Steinbeck. Steinbeck’s childhood was similar to any others, as his adolescent years were carefree and relaxed. By the age of four, in the vast land of Salinas, Steinbeck was given a pony, later becoming the inspiration of his famous, well-acclaimed novel, The Red Pony. Later on his ninth birthday, his aunt, Molly, gifted him a copy of Le Morte d’Arthur written by Thomas Malory, which began his start of being a voracious reader. Steinbeck loved words, and reading old-fashioned words like the ones Malory used pleased
John Steinbeck was an author that wrote many books, including the book Of Mice and Men. This book was good, it was really long in the beginning and got better as you got deeper into the storyline. John Steinbeck is a very accomplished and intriguing author that wrote about interesting topics as well as personal experiences. In Mice and Men loneliness seems to be a main theme of the novel, my paper will discuss this and what migrant workers had to overcome. John Steinbeck, the author, wrote about what he saw as he worked alongside migrant workers.
	 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.
John Steinbeck, the author of various forms of literature, was also known as the “writer of the 1930’s” (2). Throughout his career, he found himself writing through many periods and eras. Periods, such as the Postwar period and the World War II era, gave Steinbeck different introspective, which helped write with numerous different styles (2).
John Steinbeck was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose writing was greatly influenced by America’s migrant classes, particularly during the period of the Great Depression. Born in 1902, in Salinas, California, Steinbeck had a comfortable childhood and upbringing. He discovered his passion for writing at an early age and eventually went on to enroll in Stanford University. It was during this time, mostly during his summer vacations, that Steinbeck found the inspiration for his novels. He spent his summer working as a laborer in a sugar factory, in mills and worked as a ranch hand. He closely observed the migrant workers who traveled from ranch to ranch through the Salinas Valley, and gained first-hand experience from the laborers
John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl is full of lessons to be learned, but there is one that is