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John Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat". The main characters and their relation with the American Dream

Author : Anne-Karen Fischer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668694524
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book John Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat". The main characters and their relation with the American Dream written by Anne-Karen Fischer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Constance, course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Many literary works deal with the positive and negative aspects of the American dream. One of these literary works which deals with the negative aspects of the American dream is "Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck. The book is about a group of societal marginal figures, which do not have any interest in becoming rich and famous and they take their life as it comes. For them, friendship and freedom are more important than wealth and therefore they represent the counterpart of the American dream. But there are also characters in the book, which believe in the American dream and who strive for wealth and reputation. That is why "Tortilla Flat" provides a good contrast of the proponents and opponents of the American dream. In this research paper I will analyse the main characters of “Tortilla Flat” and compare them to the American dream. First of all I will explain what the American dream really is. Afterwards I will give a short summary of the plot of the book and an overview of the historical background. Then I will show the western frontier in the book, which is also part of the American dream. After that I will analyse the main characters of "Tortilla Flat": Women, Torelli and the paisanos. Finally I will give a short conclusion.

Tortilla Flat

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140042405
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Tortilla Flat written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny, a mule skinner during the First World War, returns to Tortilla Flat to enjoy the carefree and amoral life of the paisano

The Pastures of Heaven

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440674175
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Pastures of Heaven written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Penguin Classic In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies. As the individual dramas unfold, Steinbeck reveals the self-deceptions, intellectual limitations, and emotional vulnerabilities that shape the characters’ reactions and gradually erode the harmony and dreams that once formed the foundation of the community. This edition includes an introduction and notes by James Nagel. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Tortilla Curtain

Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143119079
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Tortilla Curtain written by T. Coraghessan Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.

Tortilla Flat

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Longman Schools Division (a Pearson Education Company)
ISBN 13 : 9780582461505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Tortilla Flat written by John Steinbeck and published by Longman Schools Division (a Pearson Education Company). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house. It is a story of how these three became on thing." Danny returns from the Great War to inherit two houses in the shabby district of Tortilla Flat. He falls in with a group of poor paisanos. Together, they gossip, talk about life and plan the next drinking binge. And, when money does come their way, the parties are the kind that are not easily forgotten. Hardback (including notes) 235pp

Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

Author : William Souder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292274
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck written by William Souder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck’s long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California’s limitless bounty, fascinated by the guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country’s refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice—paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy—setting him apart from the writers of the so-called "lost generation." A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money—which passed through his hands as quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse, all of which drive public debate to this day. Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.

The American Dream in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

Author : Hayley Mitchell Haugen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737748499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men written by Hayley Mitchell Haugen and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great literary works resonate with readers not only because of well-developed characters and plots, but also because they often reflect important social themes. The Social Issues in Literature series brings together the disciplines of sociology and literature in a unique format designed to support cross-curricular studies. Each volume explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspective. All volumes in the series contain biographical and critical information about the author; secondary excerpts offering both historical and contemporary views of the highlighted social issue; a timeline of the author's life; a "For Further Reading" section of other works on the issues; and a detailed subject index. Book jacket.

America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction written by John Steinbeck and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the centenary of his birth comes a brilliantly edited collection of John Steinbeck's journalism and his last published book.

From Tortilla Flat to The Winter of Our Discontent

Author : Lauren Valerie LePera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book From Tortilla Flat to The Winter of Our Discontent written by Lauren Valerie LePera and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of American literature, John Steinbeck stands as a writer able to delve into the American psyche and study cultural changes unfettered by specific literary classifications, such as modernism and post-war texts. Although commonly known as a modernist writer, Steinbeck has evaded this literary branding and adopted a kaleidoscope of writing styles and genres to communicate his views toward American culture. This thesis tracks how Steinbeck uncovers the qualities of "the American" in almost any capacity from economic hardships to wartime and even the abundance of consumerism. The analysis begins with the comedic, celebratory treatment of the paisanos living in the Monterey hills through Tortilla Flat (1935). Steinbeck continues the glorification of social outcasts in the witty Cannery Row (1945), a text which explores the male and female gender roles within American culture specific to the 1940s era of post-war prosperity. Next, the second chapter examines Steinbeck's exploration of his own family history in East of Eden (1952) and unveils the mask of American idealism, especially in regards to marriage and domesticity, agrarian idealism, and the American Dream. The final chapter discusses Steinbeck's scathing critique of consumer culture in The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). In Steinbeck's final piece of fiction, the characters within the novel encounter the loss of morality due to a culture obsessed with material wealth and economic prosperity. This novel suggests Steinbeck's complicated opinions of American culture within his final years. By the end of this thesis, I suggest that through all of Steinbeck's various phases from the 1930s to his death in 1968, Steinbeck recognizes America's faults, yet still remains loyal to the country he spent decades examining.

Cannery Row

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659793
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cannery Row written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed…and, at the darkest level…the terror of isolation and nothingness.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101615214
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Classics presents John Steinbeck’s classic tale as an eBook enhanced with ten exclusive video clips featuring students responses, questions for classroom discussions, and an American Dream assignment Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. Of Mice and Men: Teacher’s Edition includes the following: • An introduction and suggested further reading by Susan Shillinglaw, a professor of English at San Jose State University and Scholar-in-Residence at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas • The poem “To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785” by Robert Burns (the original source of Steinbeck’s title Of Mice and Men) • The 1962 Nobel Banquet Speech by John Steinbeck • An exclusive audio interview with award-winning actor James Earl Jones on his stage performances in Of Mice and Men • Ten exclusive videos of students on major themes from the novel tied to group discussion questions included in the eBook, and an American Dream assignment, for the ultimate educational experience

The Pearl

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871296948
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Pearl written by John Steinbeck and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestselling Author. Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot stem the events leading to tragedy.

John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (LOA #72)

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Library of America John Steinb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (LOA #72) written by John Steinbeck and published by Library of America John Steinb. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Of mice and men is accelerated reader).

Of Mice and Men

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel-Ties study guides contain reproducible pages in a chapter by chapter format to accompany a work of literature of the same title.

John Steinbeck's The Pearl

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812035346
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book John Steinbeck's The Pearl written by John Steinbeck and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestselling Author. Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot stem the events leading to tragedy.

Sweet Thursday

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140187502
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Thursday written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of California alcoholics, whores, and idlers form bonds of affection among themselves and with a biologist in post-World War II Monterey

John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries

Author : Stephen K. George
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810866765
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries written by Stephen K. George and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March of 2006, scholars from around the world gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho for a conference devoted to not only John Steinbeck but also to the authors whose work influenced, informs, or illuminates his writings. This volume represents the many unique papers delivered at that conference by scholars from around the world. This collection includes studies on authors who influenced Steinbeck's work, discussions of writers whose work is in dialogue with Steinbeck, and examinations of Steinbeck's contemporaries, whose individual works invite comparisons with those of the Nobel-prize winning author. Revealing Steinbeck's penchant for culling 'all old books,' the first section focuses on Steinbeck's European forebears, particularly Sir Thomas Malory's retelling of the legend of King Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur, and Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones. This section also includes articles on his American forebears: Walt Whitman and Sarah Orne Jewett. The second part, 'Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather' includes a personal reminiscence by Ernest Hemingway's daughter-in-law, Valerie, as well as comparisons of Steinbeck with other great American authors of the 20th century. The third section includes an essay by National Book Award winner Charles Johnson (Middle Passage), as well as articles that compare Steinbeck's work with Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Further articles are concerned with Steinbeck's moral philosophy and strong sense of social justice, eliciting comparisons with Sinclair Lewis, Tom Kristensen, and Charles Johnson. The fourth section, 'Steinbeck, the Arts, and the World' includes articles on the film adaptation of The Moon Is Down, on Steinbeck and Mexican Modernism, on the American experience as portrayed in The Grapes of Wrath and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, and on Steinbeck and ecocriticism. The book fittingly concludes with John Ditsky's keynote address, 'In Search of a Language: Steinbeck and Others,' which was delivered at the conference shortly before Ditsky's death. John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries not only provides a rich array of new insights and new voices, it also points Steinbeck studies in new and varied directions. Containing more than thirty essays, this volume is not only a valuable addition to Steinbeck studies but to literary criticism in general.