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D.Otamurodova 201 Baisheva mid-term
JOHN STEINBECK HE CERTAİNLY KNEW HOW TO COMMUNİCATE İN WRİTİNG,WHİCH MADE HİM ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR NOVALİSTS İN AMERİCA DURİNG THE 1930S AND 1940S. Student: Otamurodova Dilnavoz Teacher: Baisheva Diana Faculty: 2 Group: 201 • Born: Feb 27, 1902 in Salinas, California • Died: 1968 • Occupation: Writer • Active: '40s-'50s, '70s-'80s • Major Genres: Drama • Career Highlights: East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony • First Major Screen Credit: Of Mice and Men (1939) • His father was the country treasurer. Mother Olive was teacher in former school. • John spent his summers working as a hired hand on neighboring farms and ranches LIFE… • He was one of America's most popular novelist. His works had a profound effect on the American people. Today, he is still a popular and powerful author in America as well as a worldwide literary figure. Jay Parini has written that "the author remains unfailingly attractive to readers of all ages and levels of sophistication“. • His family was a close, middle class unit living in a small community. The Salinas Valley would later prove to be the location of many of his books and short stories. Both of his parents believed in exposing their children to culture and they often traveled to San Francisco to attend the theater. They also had a wide variety of novels and literature available in the home. At the age of nine, Steinbeck received a copy of Malory's Morte d'Arthur which proved to be one of the biggest influences in his literary career. He attended Stanford University where he majored in English, but never received a degree. He married three times, the last being to Elaine Scott in 1950 which lasted until his death. He fathered two boys. He died in 1968 in New York where he had lived from time to time since 1944. His ashes were buried in Salinas, California. LOVE OF LITERATURE… • His interest in writing and reading literature developed at a young age. He was the associate editor of his high school's newspaper, El Gabilan. He also wrote many articles and short stories for the newspaper, where his talent was recognized by many of his teachers. He continued his career in college by writing articles which appeared in The Stanford Spectator. • After high school, Steinbeck worked off and on in many different jobs including a laborer in a sugar factory in Salinas, a laborer in mills, and a ranch hand. He also traveled throughout the Salinas Valley and studied marine life in Monterey Bay. He used many of his experiences for material in his later novels. He continued his writing throughout his dabbles in ordinary labor jobs. In 1927, he had his first professionally published article in The Smoker's Companion. It is said that he used the pseudonym of John Stern because he did not want to be associated with a magazine by that name . In 1929, he published his first novel, Cup of Gold. However, he did not gain financial independence through writing until 1935 when he published Tortilla Flat, a novel which was initially rejected by several publishers. Tortilla Flat is a novel about the lives of paisanos Mexican, Indian and Caucasian mixed people who lived in Monterey. In 1937, he published Of Mice and Men, one of three novels which Steinbeck referred to as a "play-novelette". He wrote "Simply stated, Of Mice and Men was an attempt to write a novel that could be played from the lines, or a play that could be read" . This proved to be a successful play which ran in the New York theater Music Box for 207 performances. LIFE AND LITERATURE John Steinbeck was a versatile writer. He has been described as a social-protest writer, a realist, a naturalist, a journalist, and a playwright. He has many strong themes running through his works. The most notable are the strengths of the family, the effects of the environment on man, and social protests. He experimented with many different writing styles and points of views. All of these factors combine to explain why Steinbeck is still a literary force today. His presence on the World Wide Web is great and he is the subject of many high school and college courses. Steinbeck had described his duty as a novelist in his acceptance Nobel Prize acceptance speech: The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with the dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement. Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. STORY OF MICE AND MEN BY JOHN STEINBECK • George and Lennie are two migrant ranch hands who fled from Weed, California, to a ranch near Salinas, California. They had had to flee because Lennie had scared a girl there by holding on to her soft dress and not letting go. He had meant no harm, but he is not very intelligent and often does not realize his own strength. • • On the new ranch, Lennie and George are doing well at saving up money to fulfill a dream of theirs-buying a place of their own. Their dream is a month from fulfillment when they let Candy, an old man with one hand, join in their dream. • • Then Lennie accidentally kills the attention-starved wife of the boss's son. The boss's son, Curley, is a small man who hates big men and seizes on this opportunity to hunt Lennie down and kill him. •
recites their dream one last time. MAIN CHARACTERS Lennie Small Lennie is a large, lumbering, childlike migrant worker. Due to his mild mental disability, Lennie completely depends upon George, his friend and traveling companion, for guidance and protection. The two men share a vision of a farm that they will own together, a vision that Lennie believes in whole heartedly. Gentle and kind, Lennie nevertheless does not understand his own strength. His love of petting soft things, such as small animals, dresses, and people's hair, leads to disaster. GEORGE MILTON GEORGE IS A SMALL, WIRY, QUICK- WITTED MAN WHO TRAVELS WITH, AND CARES FOR, LENNIE. ALTHOUGH HE FREQUENTLY SPEAKS OF HOW MUCH BETTER HIS LIFE WOULD BE WITHOUT HIS CARETAKING RESPONSIBILITIES, GEORGE IS OBVIOUSLY DEVOTED TO LENNIE. GEORGE' S BEHAVIOR IS MOTIVATED BY THE DESIRE TO PROTECT LENNIE AND, EVENTUALLY, DELIVER THEM BOTH TO THE FARM OF THEIR DREAMS. THOUGH GEORGE IS THE SOURCE FOR THE OFTEN-TOLD STORY OF LIFE ON THEIR FUTURE FARM, IT IS LENNIE'S CHILDLIKE FAITH THAT ENABLES GEORGE TO ACTUALLY BELIEVE HIS ACCOUNT OF THEIR FUTURE. CHARACTER LIST • Candy - An aging ranch handyman, Candy lost his hand in an accident and worries about his future on the ranch. Fearing that his age is making him useless, he seizes on George's description of the farm he and Lennie will have, offering his life's savings if he can join George and Lennie in owning the land. The fate of Candy's ancient dog, which Carlson shoots in the back of the head in an alleged act of mercy, foreshadows the manner of Lennie's death. • Curley's wife - The only female character in the novel, Curley's wife is never given a name and is only mentioned in reference to her husband. The men on the farm refer to her as a "tramp," a "tart," and a "looloo." Dressed in fancy, feathered red shoes, she represents the temptation of female sexuality in a male-dominated world. Steinbeck depicts Curley's wife not as a villain, but rather as a victim. Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. • Crooks - Crooks, the black stable-hand, gets his name from his crooked back. Proud, bitter, and caustically funny, he is isolated from the other men because of the color of his skin. • Curley - The boss's son, Curley wears high- heeled boots to distinguish himself from the field hands. Rumored to be a champion prizefighter, he is a confrontational, mean- spirited, and aggressive young man who seeks to compensate for his small stature by picking fights with larger men. • Carlson - A ranch-hand, Carlson complains bitterly about Candy's old, smelly dog. He convinces Candy to put the dog out of its misery. When Candy finally agrees, Carlson promises to execute the task without causing the animal any suffering. Later, George uses Carlson's gun to shoot Lennie. • Slim - A highly skilled mule driver and the acknowledged "prince" of the ranch, Slim is the only character who seems to be at peace with himself. The other characters often look to him for advice. BOOK REVIEW • Steinbeck in this novel manages to portray tough lives and tough decisions with compassion and even some humor. The migrant ranch hands that people the pages are vivid, lonely, hardworking, and heroic. As such, they cause the reader to reflect on a wide range of themes, including the importance and effects of true friendship, age, isolation, racism, intelligence, dreams/goals, self- knowledge, anger, and self-control. It is not at all surprising that this novel is so frequently assigned in English classes. SOURCES http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticl http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/ http://www.steinbeck.org/Home.html • http://creativegettyimages.com http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/maps/c http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/mice/micesg1. html THANKS FOR ATTENTION! Download 1.4 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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