Essay About Presence Of Such Power And Steinbecks Best Novel

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In the presence of such power, such observation, such compassion,
such humor, it seems almost ungrateful to make reservation to ask
that what is so good should be even better of Steinbecks books. Its just
amazing how he can take a classic tragedy and turn it into a top selling
novel. He can define them so deeply and amusingly. The first time I
picked up Mice of Men I couldnt put it down. Then I read Grapes of
Wrath. He made me feel like I was right in the action when it happened.
But the sad thing is that in Steinbecks novels there are always
tragic events in the families some way or another. Take Grapes of
Wrath
and Mice of Men for instance. In Mice of Men there was these two
friends traveling together trying to find work. Only one of the guys were
handicap. And since he doesnt know any better he kills animals cause
he cant control his straigth. And then in the Grapes of Wrath Tom Joad
just got released from prison, for attempted man sloter, right in the
beginning of chapter two. “Steinbeck has achieved his success by
working within limitations which are perhaps self imposed but which
seem on the whole to be imposed but which seem on the whole to be
imposed on him by his temperament.”(W.M. Frohock) Pg.323
In both books the characters try to find a more refreshing life to
live then the one they have been living. But they also mess there old
lives up by doing bad things. In Mice of Men Larry kills things or says
somethings that hes not saposed to say. But he doesnt know better
cause hes handicap. So he just does things. In Grapes of Wrath Tom
Joad is just like Larry in Mice of Men. Tom does things with out thinking
even though he is not handy cap. He just got mixed up in some bad
things. But thats not why the Joad family had to leave town, they had to
leave town because of some other type of tragedy. The Grapes of
Wrath,
generally conceded to be Steinbecks best novel, was taken to be a
fitting achievement, for it concentrated, more successfully than any
other novel, on the depression and on the needed for economic and
social retorms.(Max Westbrook) Pg. 326
The cause of the Mice of Men characters to move from place to
place was because Larry always caused trouble even though he didnt
mean to. “Steinbeck, aroused over the trampling of human life, put