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The Turtle John Steinbeck Analysis

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In the short story “The Turtle,” the author John Steinbeck explains that the turtle never gave up. Steinbeck supports his explains by “Lying on its back, the turtle was tight in its shell for a long time. But at last his legs waved in the air…” (Steinbeck 761). The author’s purpose is to show that no matter what happened to the turtle he still go back up. The author writes in serious tone for the audience to see how hard things can be to overcome. “The Turtle” is an excerpt from the novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, with is about the Great Depression. During the Depression people lost everything “The drought was so severe that farmland literally blew away in massive dust storms” (Steinbeck 758 background). These farmers
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