The Pastures Of Heaven John Steinbeck Analysis

During the Great Depression era , Steinbeck 's own experiences lead him to write about suffering of the poor and the plight of displaced migrant workers . This made Steinbeck to deepen his belief that the American social contract was designed to prevent extreme disadvantages from accruing to any particular group, resulted in his greatest work. John Steinbeck 's novels concern essentially of man 's difficult and unfortunate plight. He sees human existence as a challenging and perplexing experience which is often painful; he views it as surrounded by tensions , contradictions and unreconciled conflicts clamoring to be resolved. This view is not, of course peculiar to Steinbeck ; it is shared by many theologians, by most existentialist philosophers, by countless poets and writers and even by some scientists but his treatment of this theme is peculiarly his own. Between the period of 1931 and 1933 Steinbeck produced three short works. The Pastures of Heaven, published in 1932, comprised twelve interconnected stories about a valley near Monterey, which was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway Indian slaves. In 1933 Steinbeck published The Red Pony, four-chapter story weaving in memories of Steinbeck 's childhood. To a God Unknown follows the life of a homesteader and his family in California, depicting a character with a primal and pagan worship of the land he works. Steinbeck’s novel, Tortilla Flat (1935), is the first clear