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1 AN INTRODUCTION to JOHN STEINBECK 1902-1968

2 WELCOME TO STEINBECK COUNTRY

3 SALINAS, CALIFORNIA

4 A SENSE OF PLACE

5 STEINBECK'S THEMES EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL FIGHT FOR THE UNDERDOG
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS vs. THE STATE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS’ RIGHTS PROTECT THE HELPLESS & WEAK OVERCOME POVERTY & IGNORANCE

6 THE RED PONY

7 THE PEARL

8 THE GRAPES OF WRATH

9 OF MICE AND MEN

10 From Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.”  --1962

11 Nobel Speech “This is not new. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.”

12 Nobel Speech “Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation.” --1962

13 Nobel Speech “I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature…. We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life and death of the whole world of all living things….The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand.”

14 Nobel Speech “Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, saint John the Apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the word, and the word is man, and the word is with man.”  

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