Understanding of mice and men, the red pony, and the pearl : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
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Understanding of mice and men, the red pony, and the pearl : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
（The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series）
Greenwood Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Although John Steinbeck's novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are works of fiction, they provide a window on the history of the times and places they portray. Studying the historical, social, economic, and regional background of each novella is important to fully understanding each work. This interdisciplinary collection of rich collateral materials features a variety of primary documents that shed light on the background of each of these novellas-the pioneer days and life on the Western frontier, the early history of California, the gold rush, the plight of the migrant worker during the Great Depression, the problems of the homeless and the hopeless, and oppression in Mexico in the early 20th century. Documents include memoirs of mountain men and pioneers, books of travel, sociological studies, a political treatise, a journal, reports of U.S. commissions, a comic memoir, and an interview with a Salvation Army general who worked with the downtrodden during the 1930s. Most of these materials are not available in printed form anywhere else.
The purpose of this volume is to explore through analysis and collateral readings the pervasive theme in these novellas: the universality of humankind's often futile struggle for a better existence. Steinbeck shows that the American vision is shaped by the dream of a better life represented in the myth of the West. A social and political commentator, he dramatizes in all three novellas the social issues of the time. The first chapter of this study, a literary analysis, examines key themes common to all three novellas. The remaining chapters place the works in historical context. Old California and the West includes accounts of 18th- and 19th-century travelers to California who dreamed of a better life. Land Ownership examines the meaning of land ownership in the West and its corruption. The Vagrant Farm Worker: Homeless in Paradise features memoirs and journals of itinerant workers as well as Mark Twain's Roughing It and a study of the hobo. Losers of the American Dream deals with the homeless and hopeless during the early years of this century and the Great Depression. The American Dream in a Mexican Setting illuminates the lives of the oppressed in Mexico which provoked a century of revolutions. Each chapter concludes with study questions, ideas for class discussion and student projects and papers, and a list of books for further reading. This is an ideal companion for teacher use and student research in English and American history classes.
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"The Triumph of Our Species": A Literary Analysis of Three Steinbeck Novels Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Old California and the West From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America From John Todd's The Sunset Land Or, The Great Pacific Slope From Washington Irving's Captain Bonneville From John Bidwell's "The First Emigrant Train to California" Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Land Ownership From Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer From Josiah Royce's California. A Study of American Character From The Homestead Act of 1862 The Statutes At Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America From Henry George, Jr.'s "The Lands of the United States," in The Life of Henry George From "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act" in Statutes At Large, Treaties and Proclamations of the United States of America From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The Vagrant Farm Worker: Homeless in Paradise From James P. Beckwourth's The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Written from his own Dictation, by T. D. Bonner From Franklin Langworthy's Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: Or A Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake...In the Years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 From John S. Hittell's The Resources of California From Josiah Royce's California...A Study of American Character From Mark Twain's "California: Character of the Population" Roughing It From Migratory Labor in American Agriculture: Report of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor From the Journal of a Working Man in John N. Webb's The Migratory-Casual Worker From Nels Anderson's The Hobo. The Sociology of the Homeless Man Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Losers of the American Dream From Alice Willard Solenberger's One Thousand Homeless Men From Nels Anderson's The Hobo From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land From William T. and Dorothy E. Cross' Newcomers and Nomads in California An Interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The American Dream in a Mexican Setting From James H. Wilkins' A Glimpse of Old Mexico From Elizabeth Visere McGary's An American Girl in Mexico From William Seymour Edwards' On the Mexican Highlands From A. A. Graham's Mexico With Comparisons and Conclusions From Mrs. Alec Tweedie's Mexico As I Saw It From H. Hamilton Fyfe's The Real Mexico From Edward Alsworth Ross' The Social Revolution in Mexico Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading
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