Compare And Contrast Malcolm Gladwell And John Steinbeck

Malcolm Gladwell and John Steinbeck are two amazing authors who's writing styles are unique and similar in many ways. Gladwell's bestseller, "The Tipping Point", teaches the reader how little things can make a big difference, while Steinbeck's bestseller, "The Pearl", teaches the reader that materialistic items are not the most important things in this world. In both, "The Tipping Point" and "The Pearl", Gladwell and Steinbeck are similar in their styles of writing by the way they can grab your attention on any given subject, the way their storylines are meaningful in many ways, and how they have the same moral for their readers to understand. "Why is it that some ideas or behaviors or products start epidemics and others don't? And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own?" (The Tipping Point p. 14)

Steinbeck is more of a fictional story writer but can get the readers attention in a way that if different from any other writer which is amazing. The way he writes is that he makes up a story but puts some type of life lesson into it. Most writers do this as well but the way Steinbeck puts it is in a completely different way. In his book, "The Pearl", Steinbeck writes a fictional story on poor people and their daily lives. The main character finds a Pearl and that material item becomes his life. The way it grabs your attention is that some readers might relate this to their daily lives and how much they think that material items mean the most when they don't. The two writers also have bad writing styles in them. In Gladwell's book he stayed on one topic for several chapters which gets boring after awhile. Steinbeck made his main character's struggle with the Pearl last forever. "And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between" ( The Pearl