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OF MICE AND MEN By John Steinbeck An introduction for Year 9 English

This is John Steinbeck He is considered one of the most important of American authors

He is such a revered and loved author that he has his own museum : “The Steinbeck Centre” in California. The reception area is actually his childhood home!

Steinbeck is from German and Irish descent. His mum was a school teacher and she encouraged his love of literature.

Salinas Valley, California where Steinbeck grew up (Looks a lot like Australia!) In his summer holidays Steinbeck worked here as a ranch hand

It is the Salinas Valley and life on the land that he captures in his novels and inspires the world.

This famous author went to Stanford University in 1919 He is a really slack student. He wags class and NEVER GOT A DEGREE. In 1925 he leaves Uni for good and runs off to....

New York !

His dream is to be a writer but he fails and goes back to California.

His first novels were not received well critically

With the publication of his first novella- a short novel in He gains world wide recognition. He goes on to write other powerful novels. (Grapes of Wrath) In 1962 he wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This is the original cover for the book in Looking at the cover what do you think it might be about?

Big deal! I hate reading my English books. So why should I read this book?

There are several reasons why you should read this book. Let me try & persuade you.

Reason 1:This book is cool!

Megadeth have a song called “Of Mice and Men” on their “The system has failed” album.

Reason 2:THIS BOOK IS OFTEN CENSORED Even though Of Mice and Men is considered an American classic. It is one of the most banned books in American schools.

Constantly this book is complained about by parent groups in America. So what makes the book so controversial?

It is banned because of its language: Examples: Son of a bitch Whore Bastard The “n” word

Here are some examples of other banned literature in American schools.

Of Mice and Men is controversial because of the way it depicts women

The book is also censored because the characters are rough & tough ranch hands. They spend most of their free time drinking alcohol and visiting prostitutes in what is known as a “cat-house”.

Reason 3: Of Mice and Men is only around 100 pages long. An easy read!

Reason 4: Of Mice and Men has a great story. It is suspenseful with a shock ending. Reason 4: Of Mice and Men has a great story. It is suspenseful with a shock ending.

It’s about dreams, friendship, loneliness & violence

Reading some books makes you a better person and this is one of them! Reason 5

Before you read here is a little background information about farm life in America in the mid 30s. Farm life today!

Before the 30s farm life was booming in America. Farmers were trying to cash in on the biggest crop of the day: wheat!

With the invention of better tractors, farmers could go crazy ploughing the land. And they did.

In those days they didn’t know a lot about soil conservation. When the crops failed year after year because of drought there was nothing holding the soil in place.

What happens to loose dry dirt in a big wind?

Dust storm Sydney 23 September 2009 Strong winds had blown the dust from Central Australia

The view in suburban Sydney at 5:45 am this morning (23 September 2009). Sydneysiders awoke to a strange red glow in the sky.

Okay that was bad in Sydney but check out the dirty 30s in America

The Prairie winds made many dust storms

Black Sunday April 14, The dust storm that turned day into night. Many believed the world was coming to an end.

Imagine trying to live in these conditions. The dust storms lasted from

Farmers and their families had to leave

They had to sell everything

They took to the road. Where would they go?

California had great farmland and no dust. They would migrate to California

Description : Oklahoma Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields. California. 1935

Life was hard in a refugee camp

Farming in the Panhandle Wheat was a real good thing. The world needed it and was paying a good price for it. Wheat farmers with tractors, one way plows and combines purchased by most farmers after the phenomenal crop of 1926, began plowing and planting wheat as never before. The lands were planted to wheat year after year without a thought as to the damage that was being done. Grasslands that should have never been plowed were plowed up. Millions of acres of farm land in the great plains were broken was dry but most of the farmers made a wheat crop. In 1931 the wheat crop was considered a bumper crop with over twelve million bushels of wheat. Wheat was everywhere, in the elevators, on the ground and in the road. The wheat supply forced the price down from sixty-eight cents/bushel in July 1930 to twenty-five cents/bushel in July Many farmers went broke and others abandoned their fields. With continuing hard times and dry years, the farmers, who still had a lot of pioneering spirit and faith in the land, made ready to weather the storms. The old survival methods of pioneering were brought out of storage, dusted off and put into practice. Many farmers increased their milk cow herd. The cream from the cows was sold and the skim milk was fed to chickens and pigs. When normal feed crops failed, thistles were harvested, and when thistles failed, hardy souls dug up soap weed which was chopped in a feed mill or by hand and fed to the stock. This was a back breaking, disheartening chore which would have broken weaker people. But to the credit of the residents of the Dust Bowl, they shouldered their task and carried on. “ Women tried to look after their families while the men looked for work

Dorothea Lange: amazing photographer of the migrant family experience. Her photos made a huge impact on America. Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California atop car with her giant camera February 1936.

This is her most famous photo

Many farm laborers and ranch hands travelled the roads in search of work in California.

These are the types of characters Steinbeck writes about

During the time Steinbeck was writing “Of Mice and Men” it was a difficult time for America. It was the time of The Great Depression.

The Salinas River area in California. Where Steinbeck grew up & worked on ranches. Into this area came many jobless men in the 30s.

What we have learnt in this powerpoint John Steinbeck is a very important writer in American literature John Steinbeck’s experiences on the land as a ranch hand In the 30s helped him to create interesting characters. There was a farming crisis due to dust storms and drought during the 1930s in the middle of America Many farmers and their families moved to California to find work. John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men in the mid 30s during The Great Depression Of Mice and Men is banned a lot in American schools because of its language and sexism.