Salinas Valley

Chapter 1 - [ ] The narrator talks very deeply about the memory of their childhood in the Salinas Valley. I think the narrator had a love so deep for their mother and for the east. As I continue to read, it seems like things in nature start going downhill in the winter, but nature starts to get better as spring and summer comes around. I looked up Santa Lucias and even though it 's a range in California if you look into deeper you find out more. As I read on, Santa Lucias it made me believe that

desires to express herself as a woman and to explore her sexuality by living a more passionate life. The setting plays a significant role in the story. It reinforces Elisa's feelings of isolation from the world. The tale is set in the beautiful valley of Salinas, California, but with all its beauty, this location takes on the role of some sort

These two things stand for important attributes in human nature, hope. " The day was going fast now. Only the tops of the Gabilan mountains flamed with the light that had gone from the valley. A water snake slipped along the pool, its head held up like a little periscope."(7) This relates to the characters in the novel as after Lennie and George get kicked out of Weed they looked for new opportunities. "The sunshine lay in a thin line

significant. I believe this because Steinbeck expresses many important literary device such as setting,mood and foreshadowing. When Steinbeck talks about Salinas Valley “The high gray-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot” (pg 756), he creates a depressing and negative mood. This foreshadows the story because it describes the setting and hints the time

and her husband live in a valley closed off from the people and places around them. Elisa is a very lonely and confided person, who is unsure of her green thumb abilities. She has a garden full of Chrysanthemums which to most green thumbs are some of the hardest to care for, but Elisa dose it effortlessly. The story sets a scene of a dark and closed off area in which they live. The first paragraph says “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all

In the valley there were hills brighter than the cars passing by on the highway. Red, green, orange, and yellow. On this side of the highway there was a small building with warm colors that people called “A taste of Barcelona”. When I first entered the building, I noticed that there was a Latin band playing salsa. To my right I noticed that a man asked a woman to dance. It was an interesting site. Men and woman dancing with each other on the wooden dance floor. It is so amazing how specific details

Chrysanthemums. “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world” (Steinbeck, John uhhhh boneless pizza). As the female protagonist in a historically accurate story in the late 1930s, Elisa is condemned to living in a sort of confinement from the outside world, seeing as her husband would do all of the business on the farm. She has something in common with the Salinas Valley, as she too is closed off from the sky and from all the rest of

Trask family and the Hamilton family. Samuel Hamilton an Irish Immigrant, father of nine, and husband to Liza Hamilton meets the Trask family when Adam Trask would need help with an irrigation system for his new farm, when he moved to the Saliana Valleys during the Homestead Act. Samuel Hamilton becomes very close with the Trask family and even birth?? Adam and Cathy's son. After Cathy shots Adam in the shoulder and runs away from him, Samuel will help him. Along with Samuel Hamilton, Lee a chinese

Trask family and the Hamilton family. Samuel Hamilton, an Irish Immigrant, father of nine, and husband to Liza Hamilton meets the Trask family when Adam Trask would need help with an irrigation system for his new farm, when he moved to the Saliana Valleys during the Homestead Act. Samuel Hamilton becomes very close with the Trask family during this time, and even birth Adam and Cathy's twins, Cal and Aron. After Cathy gives birth her haywire side comes out, and she shots Adam in the shoulder and runs

John Steinbeck’s historical novel, East of Eden, is a story of the genealogy of the Trask and the Hamilton families living in Salinas Valley, California. and their experiences involving choice. Along with numerous biblical references, Steinbeck emphasizes the story of Cain and Abel through the characters of Cal and Aron Trask. The novel revolves around a central idea of the Hebrew word Timshel, which signifies “thou mayest”. In other words, an individual may choose between justice and evil and that