John Steinbeck

Introduction to Steinbeck

 Fundamental element to Steinbeck: the landscapes.

 External landscapes: the land, cities, countries. While internal landscapes are places where we
often be, such as our home or work.
 To connect his landscapes with his stories he uses humor with a certain irony.
 The clear setting of Steinbeck is the Salinas Valley. In where he lived his childhood with his
parents, he also put so many emotions about his hometown.
 As he becomes older, he realizes that Salinas was a very conservative place, so he decides to
move to Monterrey, to express his ideas in a more freely way.
 “The city” was San Francisco and he lived there when he was young, because his mother took
him there in order to involve him with culture such as opera, museums and theater.
 In San Francisco he knows his future wife, her name was Carol.
 The next “city” is New York. He mentions that New York is “everything”, is a city very congested
and workers are full of energy.
 He was not very happy at New York because he is a man who requires the share and contact
with the land and more specific the access to the sea.
 He wanted to live in a community of the United States that could feed him, and he live with
them in a natural landscape.
 On Sag Harbor on Long Island (Monterrey) he lived there with his third wife. It was a place
similar to his ideal.
 On Sag Harbor, Steinbeck made some friends, and he could wear any type of clothes without any
prejudice. There he also spent more time in the village than working or having a stressful life, so
this was very peaceful for him.
 Steinbeck reflects in his text his attachments to his places.

George Orwell

What is fascism?

 Usually, fascism the people related with Germany and Italy regimes of the war.
 The idea that fascism can only solve their economic problems by the war.
 Socialism and Fascism are the same thing.
 To some extent Fascism and communism are followed by the same people.
 The catholic church supports the fascism but with two perspectives, one objective and the other
subjective.
 During the war, the term or action of joining the territorials was a sign of this idea of fascism.
 Fascism idea by people refers to something cruel, arrogant, and anti-working class.
On my opinion I prefer the ideas and how John Steinbeck express his own ideas by shearing with the
lectors his own personal experiences and how the movements of city through his whole life impact him
in a very positive way of having an ideal place and by having a purpose of finding this place in which he
could connect perfectly.