The grapes of wrath

Chapter one that is entitled " John Steinbeck's life and career" is about historical background of writer' life and the main successful works of John Steinbeck that provided his as a great writer, and about the reasons why The Great Depression was begun and its social and cultural effects.
Chapter two is entitled "The Grapes of Wrath; a Literary View." the chapter provides a literary analysis of the novel , including, summary and symbols. It will discuss the social themes described in the novel, and the American social philosophies that are reflected in the behaviors of the characters.
The aim and tasks of the qualification paper. The aim of the work is to give information about the following tasks have been settled so that to achieve this aim.
To indicate J. Steinbeck's life stages
To give information about his major writings
To describe Steinbeck's most popular novel
To analyze the plot of "The Grapes of Wrath"
Methods of research. Investigation, analysis have been used in this qualification paper.
Theoretical and practical value of the work. The result of the course paper can be used as a necessary work while studying John Steinbeck's life and the peculiarities of his work. In this qualification paper we have given important and theoretical information about J. Steinbeck's life and his major work and one of his famous novel During this kind of investigation students can improve their background knowledge, grammar and vocabulary skills.


Chapter I : John Steinbeck's life and career
1.1 General facts of writer's life.
John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California and he was the only son of John Ernst Steinbeck Sr. and Olive Hamilton. The father of John Steinbeck , John Ernst Steinbeck was born in 1862 and died in 1935, was a bookkeeper and accountant who served for many years as the treasurer of Monterey County, California. John's mother, Olive Hamilton was born in 1867 and she died in 1934, she was a teacher at school, also she was interested in art and shared Steinbeck's passion for reading and writing and he took his love of literature from his mother.
John Steinbeck's favorite writer , and a main impact on his writing, was Sir Thomas Malory's who lived from 1408 to1471 and his work "Le Morte d'Arthur", that is a collection of the legends of King Arthur. When Steinbeck was in high school he decided that he wanted to be a writer. He also enjoyed doing sports and spent his free time during the summer on various ranch houses. Steinbeck lived in a small rural but very beautiful valley that set in some of the world's most fertile soil and about twenty-four miles from the Coast of Pacific Ocean. It is said that , both valley and coast would serve as magnificent settings for most of his best fiction. He would spent his summers working on nearby ranch houses , also , he worked with migrant on Spreckels sugar beet forms that grew vegetable that sugar is made from. On farm he earned knowledge about the severe sides of the migrant`s life and the negative aspects of human nature, which provided him with material expressed in "Of Mice and Men". He learned the words by walking across local forests, farms and fields.
When he was working at Spreckels Sugar Company, sometimes he worked in their laboratory, which gave him spare time to create new works. He owned considerable mechanical aptitude and fondness for fixing things he had. In addition to this, He worked as a laboratory assistant and farm laborer to support himself through six years' tuition fee for study at Stanford University, where he took only those classes that interested him without taking a degree. In 1925 he visited to New York by crossing of the Panama Canal on a ship or aircraft that carries goods . After travelling in New York, he begun to work as a reporter and as part of a construction builders building Madison Square Garden. While working there, he was also earning impressions for his first novel. " Cup of Gold" which written in 1929, was an unsuccessful steep at romance involving the life of piracy called Henry Morgan.¹
After then, Steinbeck came back to his country and begin work as a writer of serious fiction. The first collection of short stories, "The Pastures of Heaven" that finished in 1932, involved vivid impressions of rural farm life among the " spoiled children of nature" ²in his native valley. His second was novel " To a God Unknown" written in 1933 was about his strongest description about man's relationship to the land. "With Tortilla Flat" written in 1935, Steinbeck gained critical and popular success; most writers begun to consider him as a most artistically satisfying writer.
Then Steinbeck had to deal with the issues of labor unions in "In Dubious Battle" written in 1936, an successful story of a strike about workers who decide to stop working as a form of protest against unjust treatment by local grape owners. His "Of Mice and Men"³ which finished in 1937, was the first conceived as a play, is a tightly constructed novella about an unusual friendship between two migrant labors who try to do anything there is appropriate work, usually on farms. In spite of the book' powerfully being written and fast moving, some reviewers feel that it had not a moral expression.
Most of Steinbeck' articles for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper was about the troubles which migrant laborers faces during the migration that provided source for" The Grapes of Wrath" written in 1939, his this novel was considered the finest working-class novel of the 1930s. "The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story the struggle of a family of Oklahoma and farmers forced them to turn over their land to the banks. Then The family have to journey across the vast plains to reach the promised land of California. His this work" The Grapes of Wrath" awarded the Pulitzer Prize⁴ in 1940.
During the Second World War , which the United States joined to give a hand other nations battle Germany, Italy, and Japan in 1941 Steinbeck worked as a foreign reporter. After this experience were born nonfiction works such as " The Story of a Bomber Team written in 1942, " Once There Was a War" (1958) and a collection of Steinbeck's massages from 1943 with photographs of Robert Capa. The most successful work of this period was "The Sea of Cortez" worked with scientist Edward F. Ricketts. This work is about research of two explorer into sea life that gives an important thing to many of the themes and expressions that featured in Steinbeck's novels.
Steinbeck's fictions written during the 1940s includes "The Moon Is Down" (1942)," a tale of the Norwegian resistance to occupation by the Nazis" that about German ruling party that scorned democracy and considered all non-German people, especially Jews, " Cannery Row written 1944 is about came back to the setting of Tortilla Flat, "The Wayward Bus" finished in 1947 and " The Pearl that is a popular short novel about a poor Mexican fisherman who finds a expensive pearl. But it brings bad luck to his family and relatives. John Steinbeck awarded modest critical praise in 1961 for his more ambitious novel " The Winter of Our Discontent" was a search of the moral disintegration of a man of high ideals. " Travels with Charley" written in 1962 was a pleasantly successful work of his travels across America with his poodle. The next popular success was that Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize.