4. John Steinbeck Flashcards
Where was he born?
the Salinas Valley
What did he admire?
Everything that was not a material success: the have-nots, the misfits, the racial minorities unjustly deprived of their rights, the simple, the poor and the oppressed.
What is transformed in his creative process?
It simplifies characters and idealises qualities.
Tragedy written in the form of a play
Of Mice and Men
The 2 ranch workers in Of Mice and Men
George and Lenni
Themes in Of Mice and Men
Racism, prejudice and loneliness
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this novel
The Grapes of Wrath
In the Grapes of Wrath the story follows a family…
called the Joad family as they leave Oklahoma
They leave Oklahoma to go to
California
Why was The Grapes of Wrath controversial?
some condemned its obscene language, and others saw it as communist. Farmers believed the work misinterpreted the labour practice and it caused worker strikes.
Steinbeck’s most ambitious novel
East of Eden
Steinbeck’s quotation on East of Eden
I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, a practice for this
