Randy Shughart

John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, is a moving account of the social plight of Dustbowl farmers and is widely considered an American classic. The novel takes place during the depression of the 1930s in Oklahoma and all points west to California. Steinbeck uses the Joad family as a specific example of the general plight of the poor farmers. The Joads are forced off of their farm in Oklahoma by the banks and drought, and they, like many other families of the time, head out for the

Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California, during the Great Depression of the 1930s by John Steinbeck. It was the first work to bring Steinbeck’s national recognition as a writer. The book addresses the real hopes and dreams of working-class America. Steinbeck's short novel raises the lives of the poor and dispossessed to a higher, symbolic level. The title suggests that plans of Mice and Men often go awry, a reference to Robert Burn’s poem "To a Mouse." Since

“Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own: but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible,” (Irving 10). Washington Irving is a romantic American writer in the 1800s with works including Rip Van Winkle as a part of the collection of essays and short stories called The Sketchbook. Rip Van Winkle is set in a village near the Kaatskill Mountains during the American Revolution and tells the story of a man who is loved by many in the town but spends

John Steinbeck sets the scene of his novella, Of Mice and Men, in the Salinas River Valley, a few miles south of Soledad. The time period of the novella is the 1930’s during the Great Depression. The Great Depression began in 1929 after the U.S. had a major financial crisis. People lost all of their money and their homes when the stock market crashed. Many men became migrant farm workers who would travel from farm to farm, working for just enough money for food and a few belongings. John Steinbeck

Light and darkness are two polar opposites. Light is like hope, and darkness is like sadness, or trouble. John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men uses these elements in his book to portray the hope, sadness and the immediate change between these two feelings, to advise the reader about the conflicts that migrant workers experienced while working on the ranch. John Steinbeck uses the elements of light, darkness, and the immediate change between the two to portray the hope, sadness, and the sudden

The characters make dreams that cannot be achieved in John Steinbeck’s, Of Mice and Men, where friendship and loneliness are shown by certain characters in this novella. Friendship is one of the key character traits in the novella. For instance, friendship would be Lennie and George, their friendship is what holds them together and although Lennie is not smart, George still accompanies him as a friend. Continuously as George play more tricks on Lennie he began to see how Lennie didn't care for

With the good standing amongst the gentility of the Lachlan district the result of which harnessed Ben's widening reputation of reliability viewed through comments such as;[sic] "...he was a good mate at mustering cattle or running wild horses." Ben developed a friendship with one, in particular, Daniel Charters another local grazier whose family had extensive property between Carcoar and Forbes. Daniel Charters was 6 ft. tall, of stout build, a fresh complexion, light brown hair, blue eyes and could

Occurring in the time period of the Great Depression, George and Lennie, characters in Of Mice and Men, were wandering ranch hands that were common of the era. The glimpses that we have about their relationship are very jarring as it seems that George seems to dislike Lennie. This section where the two talk about their dream reveals a different, unfamiliar aspect of their relationship to the reader. The mood of this dialogue-heavy scene is almost vulnerable, exposing a gentler side of the characters

In John Steinbeck’s novela, Of Mice and Men, a story of two men chasing a dream is being told. The men, George and Lennie, have a goal of buying a house with land to raise rabbits on, but they are disrupted by Lennie’s mental illness. Lennie makes simple-minded decisions that never turn out well, much like the incident in “To a mouse.” In the novela, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck writes about George and Lennie’s “roller coaster” life. They ride across the country looking for jobs, but it never

Have you ever wanted to know the differences and similarities between the book and the movie of Where The Red Fern Grows? Well i will tell you. All tho they are very different they have some similarities. There are some very big ones and small ones. I will tell the most noticeable. I know the differences because I have read the book and watched the movie. First, I will talk about how the book and the movie are similar. The most noticeable is when he gets his dogs. He goes to get them in Tallaqua