the pearl by john steinbeck is the retelling

From somewhere in the latter half of the 19th century, and until the end of the first World War. Starting out with grandfather named Cyrus, with his progeny Adam and Charles, then Adam’s own children Caleb and Aron, the plot spans a period of nigh-fifty years. The greatest portion of the book’s story goes on about the Trasks. In fact, the size of it – a whopping six-hundred pages (large ones, at that) – rivals that of Anna Karenina, and the plentiful events, developed characters, hidden meanings, metaphors only make it a stronger work, but a difficult one, also. It is by no means an easy book to review, since it essentially bypasses a mere book for book’s worth. It has since been transformed into a Broadway play, and has had three movies made in its glory.Įast of Eden was first put on bookshelves in 1952. This work of Steinbeck’s has proved to be one of his best. The universal themes of friendship and giving a voice to the lonely and the poverty-stricken are present in Of Mice and Men. But, then, the duo finds themselves fallen into the pit of trouble and of problems, again, and a tragic ending is what ensues for both of the men. Their mission, at this point, looks more attainable than ever. Steinbeck features his own hometown, Salinas Valley, as this is where George and Lennie find and secure a job as workers on the fields. Their agreed-on goal is to own an acre of land and a single shack. Lennie’s own attitude towards George is that of a faithful, loyal companion. Of the two, Lennie boasts a mild mental impairment, and George is with a routine compulsion to get them into trouble. The period where this is set in the one around the Great Depression. Impoverished, down-and-out workers George and Lennie are attempting to ‘work the American dream’ in California.

Of Mice and Men, the first of his truly great works, sees Steinbeck paving the road he would treat more than once, as his success only multiplied with each subsequent entry to his writing. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Steinbeck served as a correspondent during the second World War, and the theme of the great war fills his writings often enough. He made his return to California, soon enough, and took a job as a caretaker in Lake Tahoe, beginning his career as a writer. He moved to New York, finding a job as a construction worker and, then, a reporter. Following Stanford, Steinbeck gave freelance writing the old college try.

The pearl by john steinbeck is the retelling