USA in the 1930s

In this period it was the Great Depression, the entire world suffered. It was a worldwide economic downturn that started in 1929. The Great depression is the largest depression in the modern history, and is now used as an example of how far the the world`s economy can fall.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was born on February 27,1902, in Salinas, California. In 1919 he graduated from Salinas High School. After this Steinbeck attended Stanford University. He left Standford permanently in 1925 to pursue his writing in New York. But however, he didn't success in getting any of his writing published and finally returned to California. John Steinbeck published his first novel(Cup of Gold) in 1929, but it attracted little attention. After that "of mice and men" (1937) was his first comercial success, followed up by "the grapes of wrath."
John Steinbeck was married three times in his life, and his second marriage resulted in two kids. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died December 20, 1998, in New York City.

Of Mice and Men

In a couple of weeks now we have been working with a short novel called "Of mice and men" in English class. The short novel is about to friends, George and Lennie. They are both ranch-hands moving together from ranch to ranch and looking for work. The novel deals with their friendship and their mutual dream of someday owning their own place. I have now read 103 pages and I think the short novel is good. The best part I have read is that Lennie and George finelly realize that they can make their dream come true.