The Importance of Respect in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row Cannery Row is a novel John Steinbeck wrote after World War I. At first, the novel almost seems like a humorous book, written in a style commonly used by Steinbeck. The book has its main plot, but also has side chapters that periodically interrupt the main idea, which adds to the story. One would think that these side chapters are there to universalize the book, but in fact that is not true. The side chapters tell their own story, and they have a message that Steinbeck was clearly trying to show through his book. The novel has a main point about respect. In Cannery Row , Steinbeck is trying to say that respectability is the destructive force that preys on the world. Steinbeck uses his characters to tell this story about respect and its effect on society. The central figure of the whole book, Doc, better explains this point by saying, "It has always seemed strange to me . . . The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitive, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second" (131). In chapter three, the respect issue is brought up and is closely related to chapter four. Chapter three introduces Dora and her prostitutes. It also introduces a character named William, who is the bouncer at Dora's Bear Flag Restaurant. William finds out that the tight society of Cannery Row rejects him and laughs at him. William had no friends and no respect from others, so he thought that suicide was his only way out. Chapter four talks ab... ... middle of paper ... ...s respect was at the lowest it had been in his life when he explained to Doc, "It don't do no good to say I'm sorry. I been sorry all my life" (119). Respect is something everyone wants in their society. If one is respected, it also brings on a self-comfort in that society. Mack and the boys showed that they had respect even though they were nothing more than bums. Doc always showed unselfish respect and was admired for that. Steinbeck does a perfect job of showing how respect from individuals has an affect on society. Cannery Row is a very humorous book, but it also has its points about respect hidden inside of it. One can find many places where Steinbeck shows the differences of respect in Cannery Row, and there are many more that are hidden in this humorous novel by John Steinbeck. Work Cited Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row, Viking Press., New York: 1973.
As John Steinbeck publishes “Cannery Row” in 1945, the same year when World War II ends, some scholars claim that his book somehow relates to the war. The novel is one of the most admirable modern-American narratives of the 20th and 21st century. It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California. The entire story is attached to a sensitively complex ecosystem that creates different approaches for the reader. The system is so fragile that one’s mistake can be the town’s last. Steinbeck depicts unique characters like Mack and the boys (who will stand as one character and/or group), Doc, and Lee Chong. Although there are many themes that can be extracted from these characters, the theme that arises the most is the isolation of the individual as it can be split into two different categories, the psychological and the physical.
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In Cannery Row by Steinbeck, he reminds one that, “Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels, and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing”(1). Despite people perceiving you as unsuccessful or bad, if you yourself feels successful then it doesn’t matter what other’s think of you. In the quote, it implies that someone might perceive you in a bad way but if they got to know you personally and looked at you with a different point of view they might see you in a better light. There are many people who have their own ideas on who you are but because they do not know you like you do yourself, their negative words should have no meaning
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Maybe it's more important to be appreciated than to be wealthy. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945) is one of the most unique of all of the Nobel Prize winning novels. Cannery Row is set in a very poor area of California known as Monterey. It is a small port town south of San Francisco. The time era is post Depression and World War II. The novel is about how lower class people with warm hearts have the ability to create their own heaven on earth. The novel starts out with a group of people known as Mack and the boys. None of these men have jobs, and they all live in a small shack at the end of town. Mack and the boys want to do something nice for their loving friend Doc. Doc is a simple man who lives for the simple pleasures in life. He would do anything to help out his friends, and they feel that they should return the favor. Doc owns a fish supply house in the middle of Cannery Row. He works hard each and every day to keep his supply house up and running. Doc gets his supplies from and becomes very good friends with Lee Ch...
...in the people there. Some were able to combat their loneliness they had things to fill their voids such as their friends, spouses and even the parties. While others never found true contentment. In Cannery Row John Steinbeck has clearly emphasized the importance of friendship and community. He illustrated working together. And even the importance of needs such as physiological, safety, love/belonging, and esteem. In essence the people of Cannery Row truly care for each other. And though they are sometimes lonesome when they come together their loneliness instantly diminishes.
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This conversation is a perfect example of social prejudice occurring in the novel. To expound upon this theme, the Raymond family is also a perfect example of class rank; the Raymond's, specifically Mr. Dolphus Raymond, are looked down upon based on the interracial marriage and mixed offspring. The idea of this family is foreign to the residents of Maycomb and is, therefore, shunned by the other citizens. In addition, the Ewell family is also discriminated against; being of a less wealthy status, the Ewells are seen as unworthy. However, their status is partially due to personal choices and Mr. Ewell's habits of drinking; these components all add up to a shunned family. These families express the impacts of social discrimination within the society of Maycomb.
Barbara Kingsolver once said, I wrote The Bean Trees because Steinbeck wrote Cannery Row.” The novel, Cannery Row, crowded with various anecdotes, chases the ambitions of Mack and his group of eccentric men. However, the story incorporates little plot, instead, John Steinbeck is more interested in the community as a group. The meager town of Monterey, California conserves its sentimental value of fellowship and team effort. Although, the Row is established as a sluggish town, in reality its commoners are a bunch of warm-hearted fools. Mack and the boys live rich, innovational lives, yet are a bunch of unemployed misfits, who aid one another in difficult situations. Similarly, in The Bean Trees, distant individuals with diverse experiences, despite their power in society, come together, creating a loving and supporting family. Barbara Kingsolver was inspired to write The Bean Trees, because of her admiration for Cannery Row’s fellowship and prospering community; throughout the two novels, community and the character’s support for one another during hardship, leads them to success.
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Respect is something you earn by being a good person or doing something admirable. All of the citizens of Maycomb look up to Atticus and see him as a respectable person. Atticus is the character in the novel that has the most respect. He is a caring, loving father, the only member of Maycomb who will actually defend a negro, and he always displays respect for other people.
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a realistic novel that mimics life and offers social commentary too. It offers many windows on real life in midwest America in the 1930s. But it also offers a powerful social commentary, directly in the intercalary chapters and indirectly in the places and people it portrays. Typical of very many, the Joads are driven off the land by far away banks and set out on a journey to California to find a better life. However the journey breaks up the family, their dreams are not realized and their fortunes disappear. What promised to be the land of milk and honey turns to sour grapes. The hopes and dreams of a generation turned to wrath. Steinbeck opens up this catastrophe for public scrutiny.
Geographically speaking, vulnerable populaces in California include racial and ethnic minorities, undocumented immigrants, and households living below the poverty level. The state of California has the highest poverty rate of all states in the nation, at 23.5% (Sankin, 2012), with the county of Fresno having a per capita household income of less than $21,000 annually (Demographics at a glance, 2014). These demographics project that by the year 2020, 75% of Fresno County...
All these limbs are processes to further lead a person to the their true self (atman), and to the ultimate reality (Brahman).