John Steinbeck's Influence On The Literary World

Skill and Craftsmanship in the Works of Steinbeck Throughout Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony and The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck professes his admiration for the man who displays skill and craftsmanship in his work. A man who does his job exceedingly well is, by extension in Steinbeck's works, a hero who is satisfied in doing his best in affection for his craft - a direct contrast to the multitude of humans who are merely unsuccessful and unhappy dreamers. The emphasis of skill and craftsmanship is particularly evident in a description of Slim in Of Mice and Men: He moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen.   He was a jerkline skinner, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders.   He was capable of killing a fly on a wheeler's butt with a whip without touching the mule.

Common Ground In many of John Steinbeck's works there are themes and elements that parallel his other works. Steinbeck often tackles the result of people's bad fortune and the realization that their dreams have been destroyed. We can see that in his Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath and his critically acclaimed novel Of mice and Men Steinbeck shows us the results of people having their dreams destroyed. Steinbeck shows us that in his work he gives different characters similar goals and aspirations and has them destroyed in similar ways.

In the nineteen-thirties John Steinbeck rose to a literary prominence. This was a period of time when economical and political crisis had tended to obscure the direction and the value of his work. Steinbeck from the very beginning of his career regarded all causes and all solutions, with both detachment and skepticism. Steinbeck's reviewers were troubled with this detachment, because most other intellectuals had shifted from political alienation to political commitment (Unger 50). Steinbeck was fascinated with the human drama, people that were on the lowest part of the economical chain seemed to interest him.

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27th, 1902. His mother, Olive Steinbeck, was a teacher and also was a major influence on John's writing. His father, John Steinbeck Sr., was a county treasurer. When Steinbeck was a child, during his summers off from school, he worked on a farm, which was a good experience for later writing. In the beginning of 1919, Steinbeck was accepted to the University of Stanford. Later, in 1925, he left without a degree. He wrote lots of short stories and articles for the College's newspaper. Steinbeck moved to New York to write, but had to support himself by being a construction worker. He started writing for the New York American, but didn't make enough, so had to keep his construction job. In 1929, Steinbeck returned to Salinas to write Cup of Gold. He had to work as a caretaker for a summer home in Lake Tahoe. In 1930, he meets Edward Ricketts, who gets him interested in marine biology. Steinbeck also married his first wife, Carol Henning. He publishes more novels such as the Pastures of Heaven, and To a God Unknown; but of all those, Tortilla Flat was his first selling novel. This was published in 1935. In 1936, he also published In Dubious Battle and in 1937, Of Mice and Men. Then, possibly one of Steinbeck's best selling/ greatest works, the Grapes of Wrath, was published. This publication won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book award in 1939. He told stories of families that were poor during the depression and of their powerless efforts against the government and society that has put them down. Steinbeck then traveled to Mexico to shoot the film Forgotten Village (documentary). When he returned to the United States, he became a war correspondent and wrote about the Second World War. He moved back to New York City and married Gywn Conger, in 1943. Then they had two sons, Tom, in 1944 and another son in 1946, named John IV. By 1948, Steinbeck divorced his wife, went to Russia three times, and lost his good friend, Edward Ricketts in a car crash. Then he quickly married Elaine Anderson Scott in 1950. By 1959, Steinbeck published several screenplays and served as a correspondent for the Vietnam War. In 1960, he toured the US with his poodle and recorded his travels and titling it Travels With Charlie.

Dead White Men Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, or Steinbeck? Who is the one who brought the most change to American literature? I think personally John Steinbeck was very important part in American literature because of his voice, themes, and historical influences put him ahead of the others. First, his voice made him a very renowned American author of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories.

Born in Salinas California February 27th 1902, John Steinbeck was the third child of Olive Hamilton and John Ernst Steinbeck. As a young boy he had always loved to read, when he turned nine years old Steinbeck was given a copy of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d’Athur by his aunt. Stenbeck says he was so fascinated by the ornate words and that the novel later gave him inspiration for his novella Tortilla Flat ("National Steinbeck Center" 1). Most of Steinbeck's books written in the 1930s were about migrant workers, he clearly took the side of the workers controversially talking about all the sufferings that they faced. Steinbeck did a lot of research on the topic traveling to witness the roadside camps in person, he was horrified by the living

Steinbeck’s writing often reflected off his personal life; he wrote in times of happiness and depression. John’s success could be credited to his pleased social life during the 1930s. In the span of 13 of the middle years of his career, Steinbeck published three play novelettes (University of Missouri Press). However, John’s social and personal life faltered during the 1940s because of his of divorce of his second wife, and the death of his long lost friend. This depression caused John’s writing to be forced and deviate from his typical humorous writing. The novels such as Burning Bright (1950), East of Eden (1952), and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) were not giving as much admiration from the critics as his previous novels.

John Ernest Steinbeck never gave up on being a writer even though he didn't graduate from Stanford University, and failed in New York trying to be a free-lance writer. Once he returned to California where he originally lived. He then started writing and publishing some novels and short stories. Although he published "The Cup Of Gold" as his first novel in 1929, he didn't become widely known until 1935 when he published "Tortilla Flat" humorous series about Monterey paisanos. Real life situations such as social and economic issues were a common theme in his novels and stories. Another one of his story's called "The Grapes Of Wrath" is considered his best work. The story talks about the Oklahoma tenant farmers who were unable to earn a living

To begin, John Steinbeck used different techniques when writing the Pearl in order to create an altering mood. Three of the main techniques that John Steinbeck uses is symbolizing, foreshadowing, and use of phrasing. For instance, Steinbeck’s work coveys how he uses “unique” techniques that are divergent from many other authors and artists. As mentioned in the text “Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap and ant lion had dug for him” (Steinbeck,3). In stating this, it explains the technique of foreshadowing because it is showing the fact that the bigger ant has more power over the little ant and this is showing a foreshadowing effect of slavery. Therefore John Steinbeck portrays

2. There are many ways to describe Steinbeck’s writing style, but the description that stands