... is remembered for both his forceful writing style and his compassion for the disadvantaged (John Steinbeck 19)." In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a novel that constantly achieved tremendous success, two migrant farmhands wish to live out on the farms of California's Salinas Valley, a setting that Steinbeck uses a ... lot in his work (John Steinbeck 19). John Steinbeck is best known for his argumentative Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) (John Steinbeck 19). "When he was honored in 1962 with the Nobel Prize in literature, the awards ... his wry humor, and his profo...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

... depression. It tells the story of the Joad family from the time of their eviction on their farm in Oklahoma, to their first winter in California. The novel is basically divided into three sections: their time in Oklahoma, their journey to a "better" life in California, and their time while in California. It also ... way to California. The opening chapter describes the lives of farm owners dealing with the drought in Oklahoma along with a dust storm. "Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. The men wer...

• Word Count: 1730
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School