John Steinbeck - The stories of his life
John Steinbeck, a well-celebrated American author, wrote about the hard life of common people. His stories were fiction to readers like you and me, but he knew what he was talking about since he lived trough the hard times, and worked with the people he had based his characters on. His life was full of excitement, due to his travels, and agony, as a result of his numerous marriages. Some of John Steinbecks writing was very much criticize as a consequence to his vulgar language. A very good example of which would be The Grapes of Wrath. For some time this story was banned by libraries, churches, schools and even U.S. senators. Some people even said that there are constant jibes of bureaucracy in this novel. John Steinbeck, in his novels, depicted life of workers and other common men as it is. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. He grew up with three sisters having no brother. After attending Salinas High School, he went to Stanford. Steinbeck did not get a degree at Stanford since he did not graduate. After Stanford he worked at many jobs, including sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand and a factory worker. (San Jose, 1) John Steinbeck had many relationships with women
Even though his start was a little rough, after a few stories which he published, his self-esteem rose and he begun to write novels and screen plays. Even Alfred Hitchcock considered him a great writer, since he entrusted him in writing the script for the film Lifeboat. (John, 19) And his great courage in writing the truth did at first get his novels banned, but later he received the Medal of Freedom from President Johnson. Unfortunately, John Steinbeck passed away in his sixty-sixth year of life, leaving behind him numerous novels and screen plays that are considered one of the best work of American writers. As a remembrance to John Steinbeck, in 1979 the United States commemoration stamp was issued, on what would be his seventy-seventh birthday. Observers have responded that George and Lennie lack tragic character flaws, and the use of foreshadowing de-emphasizes the characters ability to make choices, therefore mitigates any sense of tragedy in the classic tradition. (CLC, 335) Like his previous writing In Dubious Battle, the characters and settings for Of Mice and Men are derived from his experiences while he was a farm laborer in California in 1922. (CLC, 335) This novel is argued over in many ways, one of which is allegorical. Steinbeck based Of Mice and Men on a biblical ta
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