Blog Task #2: Travels With Charley

Answer the following set of questions. Pay attention to the keywords in the question stem to plan your
answer, and to the grading indications of each to ensure you are meeting the requirements.
1. Describe Steinbecks reasoning for setting out to travel across America. Use textual evidence to
support your answer.
( /2 K /1 C)
2. How does Steinbecks travelogue relate to Catcher
in the Rye so far? Are there any similarities
between Steinbeck and Holden?
( /2 K / 2 I /1 C)
3. How does Steinbecks travelogue differ from the Beatniks, and why might it not be considered a beat
generation novel?
( /2 K /2 I /1 C)
4. Hunt for the following figurative language devices in this section of T ravels with Charley: Aphorism,
Metaphor, Personification, Chiasmus.
( /4 I /1 C)
5. How does Steinbeck describe America so far? What is the speech of America, and how does
Steinbeck communicate it through his travelogue?
( /2 K /1 I /1 C)