Producers In John Steinbeck And The America Experience

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

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.

	 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.

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.

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

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

     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

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 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

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).

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 Steinbeck's novel The Pearl is full of lessons to be learned, but there is one that is

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

The American voice is what Americans have to say that helps contribute to worldly matters. It is unique because it changes everyday with new events happening and people adding more to the American voice. John Steinbeck was a big contributor to the American voice in the 30’s and 40’s during the Great Depression era. He grew up in a hardworking family, his mother a schoolteacher and his father moved from job to job trying to keep food on the table. He worked as a war correspondent during World War II and also worked as a caretaker for the elderly. His background helped shape who he was, and ultimately helped his work because he could relate to people.