... 's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit "for gallantry in defeat "for courage, compassion, and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature-("John Steinbeck-) Steinbeck did not write any more ... novels after having had received the Nobel Prize. His health finally gave out on him on December 20, 1968, when he died of a heart attack. His ashes were buried in Salinas, California....

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• Grade Level: High School

... 's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit "for gallantry in defeat "for courage, compassion, and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature-("John Steinbeck-) Steinbeck did not write any more ... novels after having had received the Nobel Prize. His health finally gave out on him on December 20, 1968, when he died of a heart attack. His ashes were buried in Salinas, California....

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Women should be kept barefoot and pregnant," was a common blunt saying in the past that stated, what was believed to be, a woman's domestic role. The general household responsibilities of women have drastically changed throughout history, let alone, in the last century. John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during a critical time of the world. This country was undergoing serious transformations in just about everyway possible (market strategies and ... Joad was dying, Ma Joad urged Rose of Sharon to fan Grandma and stay by her side. It is in these actions that we see the compassion of Ma ...

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... the Joads' travels in The Grapes of Wrath parallels the Hebrew migration from the plagues of Egypt, across the desert, and into Canaan - in the Joads' case, California (O'Connor, p67). A quote from Chapter Seventeen in The Grapes of Wrath provides another example of how Steinbeck alluded to Bible stories: "The families learned what rights must be observed - the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the ... right to talk and to listen; the right to refuse help or to accept..." (Steinbeck, 1939, p265) How the Joads had to learn ... references ...

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... about the movements and formations of the weather which lead to the Dust Bowl, "The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale." (Steinbeck, 1) These weather changes eventually affect the lives of the characters whom the reader is introduced in the latter. The opening scene also illustrated the structure of families, where the "women [stood] beside their men and the children [played]" (Steinbeck, 6-7). The families ... grapes crowdin" a fella outa bed I ain't a-goin." (Steinbeck, 152) No one truly at heart wishes to leave home,...

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... , John Steinbeck brings to the reader a variety of diverse and greatly significant characters. However, the majority of each characters" individuality happens to lie within what they symbolize in the nature of the Joad family and their acquaintances, which itself stands for the entire migrant population of the Great Depression era. One such character is that of Jim Casey, a former preacher and long-time friend of the Joads. In Steinbeck's, The Grapes ... of government retaliation against trouble-makers." (Johnson 119) However, the greatest significance regarding Jim Casey as a Christ fig...

• Word Count: 1108
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• Grade Level: High School