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John Steinbeck wrote books revolutionized the people of Earths plight on the misfits, the homeless, the hopeless, the farmers, and the migrants. He changed the plight by writing books about these people and the way their standards of living was. He wrote all these books based on his experiences and wisdom he received from his jobs and choice social groups. John Steinbeck brought honesty and honorableness to his craft. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902 of German and Irish parents. He spent the first three years of his life sleeping with his parents in the same room in which he was born, then he moved into an upstairs room where he wrote The Red Pony and tortilla flats. His father john Ernst Steinbeck senior was a county treasurer. His mother was a former teacher. He had two older sisters, Esther and Beth who loved their little brother a lot and one younger sister named Mary who john shared a pony with in a stable a few blocks away from their house. His mother fostered his every need when he was young and she wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer. She encouraged him to develop a love and interest in literature, at a high capacity. He was never really interested in literature books, until his aunt gave him on his ninth birthday a book called Morte D’ Arthur. This book gave him a keen perspective on good and evil in the world, which gave him a better outlook on the way the world was. In his teenage years he wrote a few short stories and sent them to a magazine company with a fake name, and with no return address .He would wait and keep a close watch on the magazines to see if they printed them. This sounds a lot like a man named Samuel Clemens who wrote the adventures of tom sawyer, the adventures of huckleberry fin, and roughing it, he wrote all of these books, under the alias Mark Twain. This is funny because they both were alive during the depression. He attended Salinas high school. He was tall and lanky. He did not join any social groups or high school clubs. He was constantly worried about his appearence (I guess he wanted to impress the ladies). John Steinbeck was lacking a social decency which made his fellow high school students consider him the class loudmouth or a person who enjoys doing pranks on other people. During the summers, John would often take a job as a hired hand on local ranches and plantations. This gave him an up close and personal look on farm life. This is probably where he got his love and respect for the farm folk. After he graduated high school in 1919, John Steinbeck attended Stanford University. He stared with a major in English and literature, he chose an independent program of study, during this he worked only at periods of time and his attendance was in no way constant. Edith Ronald Mirrieless, an English professor at Stanford University, lectured John until he was convinced that to be a successful author he must first give himself a large amount of discipline. During his collage years he took odd jobs to pay his tuition, such as his job at Spreckle’s sugar plant. Through his work John made social contact with hoboes, factory workers, and migrant, fruit pickers and he liked to listen to their stories. He left Stanford University, with out a degree. and fulfilled his dream to become a published author.

He attempted to pursue his writing career in New York. He was very unsuccessful so he decided to move back to California. Steinbeck based most of his facts in his stories from people he listened to, such as hoboes, the migrant workers, the drifters, the dreamers, the soldiers in the trenches during world war II while he was working for the New York Herald, as a war correspondent, and the women on the street of cannery row, which is where they worked canning fish. “John Steinbeck’s best talent was having the ability to turn the world into a fascinating, visual image, in which would give his readers a quick glimpse of others lives and how sad or hard they were .” Said by Literarytraveler.com In California he met and befriended a man named Ed Rickets. Ed was a philosopher that John met at a dentist office in the waiting room. Ed was trying to pull his own tooth because he was radically tired of waiting for the dentist. John and Ed discussed many things together. on Johns favorite beach shore such as philosophy, science, politics and anything else. Ed was first placed as a character into one of Johns books called The Log From the Sea of Cortez. Ed Rickets was a character in John’s books more than a few times. Rickets became a famous and, a never forgotten personality, known as Doc. As I said in my introduction paragraph John wrote his books based on his job experiences and choice social groups, this paragraph gives you a few examples. John Steinbeck took his house, his family history, and placed it into his book called East Of Eden. The Red Pony he got his idea from his childhood pony. Tortilla Flat was inspired by a character he met in Salinas, of mice and men was based on his experiences from working on the farms where he had picked fruit to help support himself through collage, The Grapes of Wrath was an evolved evaluation of his opinions about the farm people he was interviewing and writing researched articles in newspaper during the dust bowl In the great plains where a bunch of people moved to California and were referred to as Okies as an insult. Mr. Steinbeck may have had a really hard time become the famous author he is today, but I think that if he had an easy time it would not be as good and truthful if he did not have such a hard and depressing experiences before he got there.