约翰斯坦贝克介绍JohnSteinbeck ppt课件

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Award
• In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his lifetime work, but primarily for the great works he produced in the 1930’s.
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jor Works
• His post-war novel The Pearl (1947) reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy elements of society which made the war possible.
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Conclusion
• He wrote sympathetically about poor, oppressed California farmers, migrants, laborers, and the unemployed, making their lives and sorrows very understandable to his readers.
• In 1939, he wrote his masterpiece, The Grapes Of Wrath. This book was turned into an unforgettable film, which is still considered a great classic.
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• He died in New York, in 1968.
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His style and point of view
• Steinbeck’s best writing was produced by outrage at the injustices of society and by his admiration for the strong spirit of the poor.
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His major works
• 1937- Of Mice And Men is a short novel, written almost like a play with six chapters, each of which represents a scene. It tells of the tragic friendship between a migrant farm worker and his enormously strong, feeble-minded friend whom he is finally forced to kill, as an act of kindness, to save him from a worse death at the hands of his oppressors.
• He attended a university in California on and off for five years, studying literature and taking courses in writing.
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Major Works
• In 1937, he wrote Of Mice and Men, a short novel which established his reputation among literary critics as a major American writer.
• During the Depression years, his fiction combined warm humor, regionalism, and violence with a realistic technique which produced a unique kind of social protest.
• His father was a well-to-do flour miller who also served as a country official, and his mother was a school teacher.
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His life
• With his three older sisters, they were a family who enjoyed books, so Steinbeck did well at school.
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Major Works
• 1939- The Grapes Of Wrath is Steinbeck’s masterpiece. It is the story of a family from Oklahoma who are evicted from their small farm when they cannot pay their debts. They set out as migrants for California, to start a new life. Cruel police and employers mistreat them, some of them die, but the family somehow survives by all helping one another.
John Steinbeck（1902-1968)
-- the spokesman for the oppressed
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His life
• He was born in Salinas, California, in a long valley between two mountain ranges, which he used as the setting for many of his stories.