... lost his father one year later in 1935 (3). Johns Steinbeck attended Salinas High School for four years and earned his diploma in June of 1919 (1). Steinback would go on to Stanford University in the fall of 1919, at this time he was a young man who thought he contained more knowledge than he had in reality (Pacini 22). The summer before Steinbeck started ... over protective of him. Olive Steinbeck wanted to see her son in a line of work that would guarantee a nice pay (23). Although Olive Steinbeck did not want Steinbeck going to Stanford, she came to terms with the fact that her son w...

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... peninsula (Fontenrose 2). In 1918, he became ill with pneumonia and almost died, but he was able to recover. After graduating from Salinas High School in 1919, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University, taking courses in English and Marine Science (Bloom 11). He was always an excellent student, eager to learn both in and out of school, interested in books, music, science, ... religion, and sports (Fontenrose 3). During this time, he worked as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand, and factory worker, and left Stanford permanently in the fall of 1925 without a degree (Fontenrose 3). In...

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... school newspaper, he graduated in the top 5% in his class (Schultz 14). After high school, he continued on to study literature at Stanford University. During his studies there he worked with underpaid manual laborers. He ended up dropping out of Stanford and joining the underpaid laborers for a job (Green). Prior to Steinbeck's life there was a lot of hate and discrimination going on in ... ...

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