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1902 -1968

One of the most famous American writers of the 20th century, foremost spokesman of the Great Depression. Steinbeck’s novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor. 1902 -1968.

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1902 -1968

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  1. One of the most famous American writers of the 20th century, foremost spokesman of the Great Depression. Steinbeck’s novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor. 1902-1968

  2. During the late 1920s and 1930s he concentrated on writing and wrote several novels set in California. • Steinbeck gained great success by readers and critics.

  3. His first novel was published in • 1929 (Cup of Gold) and his • last in 1961 (The Winter of • Our Discontent). • He won the Pulitzer Prize for • The Grapes of Wrath. • He was awarded the Nobel • Prize for Literature in 1962. • 29 Academy Award nominations • and 4 Academy Awards were • given for adaptations of John • Steinbeck stories. 1902-1968

  4. *Title originated from Julia Ward Howe's The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861). *The Exodus story of the Joad’s on their way to an uncertain future in California ends with a scene in which Rose of Sharon, who has just delivered a stillborn child, feeds a starving man with her breast.

  5. The Joad’s Granma Grampa Ma Pa Rose of Sharon Tom Others Jim Casy Tom Selected reading Jim Casy

  6. EXCERPTS • Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66 – the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield – over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into the mountains, crossing the Divide and down into the bright and terrible desert, and across the desert to the mountains again, and into the rich California valleys.

  7. The other halve – non-narrative chapters • Inter-chapters (intercalary chapters) • 16 in number interspersed with 30 chapters ＊ new technique created ; ＊ provides a social historical background for the Joad’s story ; ＊ contributes to the book success as a social document & literary masterpiece Writing style : ★ Under the trend of naturalistic writing with gloomy and pessimistic revelation ; ★ Dramatic quality in the epic proportion and input ; ★ Interwoven with realism through journalistic and cinematic reportage

  8. Quick Questions • Why the Okies had to move? • Where were the migrant farmers heading for?

  9. THE Dust storms began on May 1934. Where did the dust start? _ 1930’s drought _ Heavy demand on agricultural crops made farmers over-farmed. _ loose uprooted grass hardly kept the soil underneath. The Dust Bowls stretched northward from the Texas panhandle, New Mexico, and western Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.

  10. The Fields of Salinas, California

  11. Setting • Geographical setting • Oklahoma →Route 66 → Central California • Time setting • In the late of 1930s (in the midst of Great Depression)

  12. Selected Reading Analysis • Poetic Description • Characterization • Theme revealed • Holiness of all the people • Seize-the-time Philosophy • Unity of all the mankind • I → We ; Selfishness → Altruism

  13. Images • Route 66 • Way to hope • Turtle • Tractor house • Desperate struggle • Biblical Indication

  14. Assignment • Faulkner Dry September • What is the story about? • What is each part about? • What is the setting of the story?

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