JOHN STEINBECK

John Steinbeck was born 1902 i Salinas, California. In 1919 he graduated from Salinas High School, and showed a huge talent when he wrote in the school magazine. After leaving the university in 1925 without any degree, he went to New York to seek his fortune as a journalist.
Of Mice and Men was his first commercial success.
During the World War II he wrote propaganda for the government and became a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. After 1943 he only produced three novels that are read widely today.
In all of his books he shows a deep love of humanity, especially of the working man with all his flaws and virtues. Even though most of his novels take place in a certain area in the USA, his books are stories of experiences, the human life an sufferings.
John Steinbeck got the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 and died of heart disease in 1968.

USA in the 1930, The Great Depression

The Great Depression in the U.S began on what we now call "Black Tuesday" with the Wall Street crash late in November 1929 and from there, it got spread world wide. The market crashed in the beginning of a decade of high unemplyment, low profits, lost opportuities for personal advancement and more. But still, most of the reasons for The Great Depression is still uknown. But the basic cause was a sudden loss of confidence in the economic future. The depression caused major political changes.
The economy eventually recovered from its low point of the winter of 1932-1933, to an improvement in 1937.

OF MICE AND MEN

Well, I'm just done reading the 4th section of the book we're reading in english class, the book is called "Of Mice and Men". It's a very interesting book, but at the same time I think it's difficult to read, beacuse the author uses a special kind of language in the book. The main charcters Lenny and George are someone you can relate to. I'm looking forward to read the rest of the book, I'm wondering how it ends?

Up and runnin'

skjønne ikke nå av det opplegget her :b