The Moon is Down
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. He was born in Salinas, California and was the third of four children. His parents were John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. He lived in Salinas Valley all during his childhood and teens. He attended Salinas High School and studied at Stanford College. He did not complete college. In August of 1929 he published his first novel Cup of Gold. In January 14,1930 John married Carol Henning. He was mostly remembered for his novel The Grapes of Wrath (April 1939), which is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. Other works include Of Mice and Men, The Pearl and Cannery Row. In 1941 he separates from Carol and in March 29, 1943 marries Gwyn Conger. They had two kids named Thom (August 2 1944) and John4 (June 12, 1946). In August of 1948 was divorced by Gwyn. He also made a movie called Viva Zapata. John was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. And in September 14, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him with the United States Medal of Freedom. He died December 20, 1968 in New York due to arteriosclerosis. The main ingredient I chose was plot and setting for primary focus of the author. The main point is a compare a contrast to captures and captors. The story ta
This story has more than one possible theme. The ones I thought were war, mankind and, human spirit. War plays an important role I this story. The story first of all takes place in wartime. In the begging three men are gunned down for no reason during the take over. This shows that even though this small town has certain innocence it is still subject to murders and corruption. War is shown as a time when everything is mad and the outcome is based on how certain people act, like Orden and the colonel. This story can be taken on a worldly level. Which means in can apply to anyone. It shows how mankind's spirit does not fade even when it is conquered and defeated. And how we are able to defeat what has conquered us. The people in this town don't even look at the soldiers and this makes them almost insane. They are in constant fear that someone is going to kill them and some soldiers did die. The towns people were actually able in a sense destroy the soldiers. Even when the colonel said he would kill the mayor if they didn't stop misbehaving they went right head kept doing it. It is like when an animal is cornered, it is very violent just like the town's people. The whole point of the story is to pursue the reader to feel bad when he is done reading it. Steinbeck does this well when the mayor is to be killed and you know there is no end to the peoples trouble. My evaluation of this book is pretty good. I like it a lot even though it was pretty sad. On a scale of 1-10 I would give it a 9. I was surprised that the Mayor gave his own life for the good of the people. It was kind of inspirational. This was great story cause it showed the strength of one small town and how it takes a good leader to run it. It showed how if you take o
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Approximate Word count = 1187
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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