East of Eden Response 1. Adam proves that he thinks his own personal greif is more important than his sons. He neglects them and Lee takes care of them even though he is their father. Adam is motivated by what he wants in life instead of what is right. He is unable to see through Cathy's acting due to his love for her and he trusts Cyrus soley because he is his father. Adam trusts everyone regardless of how honest they are or what their intentions are and he makes a lot of mistakes in the story
The novel centers on two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, living in the Salinas valley in California. The main protagonist is Adam Trask, a passive man who marries the main antagonist, Cathy, a cruel and evil woman who manipulates others for her own gain. Cathy gives birth to two sons, Caleb and Aron, and chooses to leave Adam after his usefulness to her is through. Adam, heartbroken, moves to the town of Salinas with his sons hoping to start a new life. Several years later when the two boys
The element Romanticism is presented in the story through the setting first, “The high gray-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world” (page 1). This sets the tone for some type of sad and cold emotion. Which those emotions comes to play when her strength, happiness, and confidence is crushed after being boosted by the man who had taken a different route and stumbled upon Elisa doing her gardening, they conversed about the chrysanthemums,
thankfulness for the land and specifically california salinas valley,which would extraordinarily advise his later writing.He was the second of four kids and the main kid destined to John Steinbeck, Sr. the treasurer of Monterey County and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck a previous instructor. Situated close to the focal California drift on a portion of the world's most ripe land Salinas' authentic epithet today is the Salad Bowl of America, Salinas was and still is a cultivating town, encompassed via scenes
In John Steinbeck's East of Eden, two unique families collide with one another. The Hamilton’s and the Trasks are two families who live in the Salinas Valley; each experience different triumphs and hardships throughout the course of their life. The experiences of the two families is based on the world in the late 18th and early 19th century, however, the actions of many characters are very similar to human actions in the present. The Trask family in particular reveals many different parts of the
John Steinbeck was born on February,27,1902 and died on December,20,1968 from Heart failure. John Steinbeck made his career writing he published 27 Books and his first book he published “Cup Of Gold” had a great story to the Great Depression like many of his other books. John Steinbeck fought in World War Two and survived he hailed from English,Irish and German race . When he died he left two children and a wife behind and his great career he won a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel a prize before he died
Phan Professor Floridia English 102 10/21/2014 Lost in the Valley The short story "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck is about a woman who struggles with the roles and expectations of a female in the mid-1930. The story takes place in the Salinas Valley where a young beautiful woman named Elisa lives with her husband, Henry. Henry is a businessman who takes care of the orchard; meanwhile, Elisa spends her time tending to her chrysanthemums. Elisa wears heavy clothes de-sexualizing her. One
In John Steinbeck’s, East of Eden, the characters go through difficult obstacles to get to where they want to be in their lives; whether the obstacles are internal or external. In this passage, one can see the conflict that Charles has within himself when writing to Adam, his half brother. This is done by the authors use of graceless diction, by choosing words like “scratch,” “splash,” and “race,” giving Charles’ letter a distressed or hurried tone, his repeated use of dashes throughout the passage
In East of Eden, John Steinbeck explores human knowledge of good and evil, and the power of free will man holds. This book is about choices and understanding - the struggle to grasp and understand the fight between moral extremes, and the choice man has to pick and choose on what side of the spectrum he lies. East of Eden explores extremely differentiating types of people - some with a nature holy enough to mirror prophets, and some disturbed to their very core, only to be described as ‘monsters’
“The Chrysanthemums” is a story written by John Steinbeck. In the story, the main character is Elisa Allen. Elisa is a married woman living in a valley with her husband. Her life in the valley has become limited to housewife duties and spends the most of her time in her chrysanthemum garden. In the story, the chrysanthemum is mentioned in the most part of the story. Steinbeck uses chrysanthemum to symbolize Elisa’s children, femininity, and sexuality in the story. First, the chrysanthemums symbolize