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In the book Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Mack is a very important character to this book. He gets mentioned a lot with his schemes and what he will do for himself. Reading this novel you would think Mack as a sneaky guy who only looks out for himself. I could understand that because he has no house and is staying in Lee Chong's place. But he actually is a really nice guy because he often tries to get things for him and his boys. They have a good little group because they all work well together

person who has bad habits but is very nice and beneficial towards others. He may have a substance addiction issue, a tendency to violence and multiple sexual partners but he takes time to educate the uneducated. Last he also helps people in need. In Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, Doc may have unfavorable aspects, but he is an giving and polite individual because of his giving actions. Doc is a physical outlet towards others and is a chronic alcoholic which are some of his many faults. After Mack

Mikensie Williams Ms.Stockton L.A Cannery Row Show Not Tell Boulder Creek in California is small, old fashion, sometimes crowded town. Boulder Creek is the not so popular town where most of the people are friendly and when you walk in a store people say “Hi.” It’s inhabitants are friendly people, poor people and rich people ( not so many rich people), and some people who will lend your kid,niece, nephew a quarter so they can get a toy from those gumball

no matter where the person started from. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, and Cannery Row both contain characters that are misfits and outsiders who are lonely and are striving for the American Dream which they think is being successful by being rich, but the author guides people to understand that money is not the root of happiness and success is not necessarily based on being rich. Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row and The Pearl all contain loneliness, which has a big role in the novels

Throughout Cannery Row the use of interconnecting chapters is used by John Steinbeck for a purpose that was not understood at first by critics. Nearly half of the chapters in Cannery Row are interconnecting chapters, some chapters even stray away from the plot, but are implemented for one reason or another. These chapters were not seen to have significance to the book at the time and lead to many bad critics of the novel, but the bad reviews would not be enough to stop people from buying Steinbeck’s

need. In the novel “Cannery Row”, John Steinbeck presents the idea of community and isolationism. Steinbeck demonstrates that community is essential for happiness and prosperity whereas isolationism leads to misery and eventual demise. For society and an individual to flourish, it is essential to not fall into the pit of isolationism instead embrace community. One must not fall into isolationism because it is detrimental for one to lose human connection. Steinbeck’s novel “Cannery row” demonstrates

its audience through the eccentric tale of the town of Cannery Row and all of its strange idiosyncrasies. Cannery Row is an aberrant novella written by John Steinbeck in 1945, and it is unlike any other story of its time. Set in the town of Cannery Row in Monterey, California during the Great Depression, Steinbeck writes about a diverse community of men and women who all struggle with their own mundane tragedies. He creates the world of Cannery Row through his own unique form and style in which he

which make the meanings a bit harder to figure out and fully understand. In chapter 31 of Cannery Row, John Steinbeck creates his own private symbol of a gopher which represents both Doc and Mack in a way that is rather complex to recognize at first. After a period of searching for a place to build his new home, the gopher is pleased to find what he believes as the perfect area in a parking lot on Cannery Row. He regards his new home as a “place where he could settle down and raise any number of

But aloneness is being completely alone, a being without friends or people. The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and Cannery Row by John Steinbeck all connect to aloneness vs. loneliness. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby himself feels loneliness although Nick Carraway feels all alone; in Cannery Row, Doc feels loneliness, while the Chinaman prefers to be alone; In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman feels lonely trying to support his family but his sons seem

Influence of John Steinbeck’s Life and Times It has been said that John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row is closer to nonfiction than fiction. The characters and setting of his novel come so close to the atmosphere of Monterey that is is hard to differentiate between what was based on fact and what was based on fiction. There is no doubt that Steinbeck drew inspiration from many facets of his life. John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row was inspired and influenced by his life experiences, people he was close to, and