John Steinbeck

The Moon is Down

Fear can drive a person crazy. There is almost no way to explain it. In John Steinbeck’s

The Moon is Down, when the Nazi’s invade a town, it’s people become massively depressed.

They remain silent and avoid contact with any soldiers. Their silence and secrets frightened the

soldiers into imagining that on the worst could happen. They began looking for excuses not to

go on patrol, they left in groups, rarely ever by themselves, and they saw their own assassin

Fear is only one of the many characteristics used by John Steinbeck in this book. He goes

from person vs. person conflicts to using emotional characteristics to describe the feelings of all

major characters. He expresses these traits through the two literature movements,

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