John Steinbeck's Impact On Literature
Occasionally, authors write based on what has happened during their lifetime. Literature can be written in many different genres and those are how novels are made up as. John Steinbeck has had a huge impact on literature in many different ways. Steinbeck once said, “You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. This dramatizes that people only ask for advice because we think we are going to get the answer we are looking for, which is not always the case. Steinbeck had to work hard for making a name for himself in the writing world. His two most famous works are The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1962, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of
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Another dominant theme of The Grapes of Wrath is the power of family. As they left their homes for the life on the road, twenty families became one family, the children were the children of them all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was the dream. John Steinbeck had received the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath, which remains on the reading list of American high schools and college English classes today (“The Grapes of …show more content…
During the late 1930s California was struggling with not only economic problems of the Great Depression, but also with severe labor strife. Steinbeck wrote movingly about the struggles of migrant farm workers. During these years, there were thousands of white Americans among the migrants, and Steinbeck writes about them in Of Mice and Men. During this time many people moved from location to location so often that it was difficult to organize themselves. In addition, American unionism, with its traditional craft setup, did not welcome unskilled workers like farm labors. In the novel, he wrote about a group of people, the white male migrant workers, who were to shortly disappear from American culture. The novels continued to gain popularity over the decades clearly shows that it has transcended its historical times. Later in the year, the novel eventually was made into a movie and have a play (Historical Context
Another dominant theme of The Grapes of Wrath is the power of family. As they left their homes for the life on the road, twenty families became one family, the children were the children of them all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was the dream. John Steinbeck had received the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath, which remains on the reading list of American high schools and college English classes today (“The Grapes of …show more content…
During the late 1930s California was struggling with not only economic problems of the Great Depression, but also with severe labor strife. Steinbeck wrote movingly about the struggles of migrant farm workers. During these years, there were thousands of white Americans among the migrants, and Steinbeck writes about them in Of Mice and Men. During this time many people moved from location to location so often that it was difficult to organize themselves. In addition, American unionism, with its traditional craft setup, did not welcome unskilled workers like farm labors. In the novel, he wrote about a group of people, the white male migrant workers, who were to shortly disappear from American culture. The novels continued to gain popularity over the decades clearly shows that it has transcended its historical times. Later in the year, the novel eventually was made into a movie and have a play (Historical Context