And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have. "For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. Behind the farm the stone mountains stood up against the sky.
There's just stuff people do." - The Grapes of Wrath (1939) View full document John Steinbeck Flight Out fifteen miles below Monterey, on the wild coast, the Torres family had their farm, a few sloping acres above a cliff that dropped to the brown reefs and to the hissing white waters of the ocean. "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.
Though his work is not yet in the public domain, we pay tribute to his significant contributions to great American literature. Though he is responsible for far too many great works to mention here, the ones read most widely abroad and adapted into iconic films include: Tortilla Flat (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952). Raised on a farm between Monterey and the mountains (425), Pep was the first son of a Hispanic father and an Indian mother. Steinbeck's writing celebrated the working man during the Great Depression, set primarily in Monterey County, California, where he spent most of his life. John Steinbeck’s story, Flight, is the story of the mestizo boy Pep Torres and his tragic journey to become a man. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) produced twenty-seven books and five short story collections.