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 Rae-The Sun Also Rises  __** Cannery Row **__ By: John Steinbeck



John Steinbeck

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John E. Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on Febuary 27, 1907. during his summers of his childhood he spent is time on a ranch where he got many inspirations for his books. After graduating from high school in 1919, he attended Stanford University. He was originally an English major, but his attendence in class was sporadic. In 1925 he left Stanford to pursue a writing career in New York, after little success he returned to California//. Cup of Gold// was his first novel, published in 1929. //Tortilla Flat,// published in 1935 was the starting point of his writing career. In 1939, Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel //Grapes of Wrath//. And in 1962 he won the Nobel prize for literature. =====

Plot Synopsis
__Cannery Row__ does not have a real plot that is easy to follow. Instead, Stienbeck tries to get the reader to feel something by describing the lives and stories of the people that live on Cannery Row. The story follows a group of young men led by Mack. The main story line is frequently interrupted by side thoughts about other characters and random thoughts about the world. "Cannery Row in Montery in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Sainst and angels and martyrs and h  oly men," and would have meant the same thing" (Steinbeck 1).This quote describes the tone and the writing style of this book.

media type="youtube" key="h8Xmu93aVeM" height="344" width="425"  Criticism This book was interesting to read, but it was hard to read at the same time. Steinbeck made it hard to follow the story of Mack and the Boys by constantly switching topic and adding new characters. I didn't know who was an important character that i should pay attention to or if it was just some random person that lives on the row. But overall I would recomend this book to anyone who wants to read a story unlike anything else. 

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