Comparison Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The novella, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, has become a classic over the past several decades for its emotional appeal about friendship and heartbreak. This is where you now need to start with where/when he was born, who his parents were, describing his education & work history, personal life (marriage, children). John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California, later John died on December 20th in 1968 of heart disease. Steinbeck’s father name is John Ernst Steinbeck, and his mother names Olive Hamilton, she was a school teacher. John grew up with three sisters, two that were older than him, and one younger than him. Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University in 1919 to please his parents, but then signed up for courses that he was interested in. He dropped out of college in 1925. During school Steinbeck attended meeting to

One of these experiments was of Mice and Men. He intended to be both a novella and a scriptwriter. Many of his books have to deal with friendships and the time when the great depression was happening. Steinbeck books, The Long Valley and Of Mice and Men both dealt with life and death. He also wrote about the everyday men, not the well to do men. John was an American novelist who has won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath. This Novel portrays the plight of migrant workers during the great depression. A friendship with Edwards Flanders Rickett, who is a marine biologist gives Steinbeck an idea. When Rickett died in 1948 he wrote a lyrical tribute and used as a preface in one of his books. John worked with all different types of people, which gave him empathy for these types of worker. This in time influenced his type of writing to become more successful. Most of Steinbeck book dealt with friendships with men. He valued that kind of relationship. By 1933 Steinbeck had found his prose style that was more naturalistic and less