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INTRO TO STEINBECK East of Eden. STRUCTURE & STYLE Third person limited omniscient (kinda…)  Seen through the eyes of a Hamilton descendent… Simple sentence.

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1 INTRO TO STEINBECK East of Eden

2 STRUCTURE & STYLE Third person limited omniscient (kinda…)  Seen through the eyes of a Hamilton descendent… Simple sentence structure Lyrical sensory descriptions (see Ch. 1)

3 SALINAS VALLEY

4 King City “And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City.” (7) City of kings? East…?

5 JOHN STEINBECK’S LIFE Born: February 27, 1902 in Salinas, CA Father = John Steinbeck, Sr. Mother = Olive Hamilton was a former school teacher and fostered in him a love a reading Maternal grandparents were Sam and Liza Hamilton from the novel

6 STEINBECK’S LIFE Studied at Stanford but never graduated Learned about his subjects by working on local ranches, hanging out with migrant workers, studying the way people talked

7 STEINBECK’S LIFE Private man Married three times (one wife may be portrayed in “Cathy”) Deep love for the downtrodden Works reflect his social conscience

8 STEINBECK’S WORK Cup of Gold was first novel First critical success was Tortilla Flat Most famous work was Grapes of Wrath

9 STEINBECK’S WORK But… Steinbeck believed this was his greatest work Wrote this for his sons Most autobiographical

10 East of Eden (1952)

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12 Died in 1968-buried in Salinas

13 Journey of a Novel “In East of Eden, I will tell the greatest story of all— of good and evil, strength and weakness, of love and hate, of beauty and ugliness. I shall try to demonstrate how these doubles are inseparable—how neither can exist without the other and how out of their groupings creativity is born.” John Steinbeck

14 Reflect/Connect: What did you learn about Steinbeck—or read in the book—that might already illustrate this philosophy?

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