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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts John Steinbeck’s short novels, 'The Pearl' & 'Of Mice & Men,' and also provides some biographical information on the author, including a brief discussion of some of his
other works and some of the writing awards Steinbeck received. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGprlmm.rtf
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he can understand it [and serve as] the watch-dog of society... to attack its injustices, to stigmatize its faults" (Reuben steinbeck.html). There were few watch-dogs of society more insightful
than John Steinbeck. Like his mentor Ernest Hemingway, he took a journalists third-person narrative view of life in the ethnically-diverse California where he was born and lived most of
his life, and through his observations, exposed the American Dream as being little more than an elitist myth. The literary structure employed by Steinbeck was simple -- the protagonists were
usually common men of low income who existed outside the social mainstream. The settings were ordinarily the landscape with which Steinbeck was most-familiar, California. In Of Mice and
Men, the setting is the farm country of the Salinas Valley, with all of the ensuing action taking place within a three-day time period. There is circular symbolism employed
in Of Mice and Men, beginning first with protagonists George and Lennie on the banks of the Salinas River, then moving to a nearby ranch and barn, but returning to
the Salinas River in the conclusion. The geographical setting featured in The Pearl is somewhat different, the tiny town of La Paz, located in Baja California, part of the
Mexican Peninsula just south of San Diego. Like Of Mice & Men, it is confined within a time period of only a few days, and also like the earlier
novel, features a water setting in its second chapter, with Indian fisherman Kino finding a massive "Pearl of the World" in the Gulf of California, which flows into the Pacific
Ocean. Steinbeck has his protagonist return to the Ocean, with pearl in hand, also reminiscent of the characters George and Lennie "returning from whence they came" at conclusion of
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