Cannery Row & Log from the Sea of Cortez

Steinbeck is incredible. Albeit his wonderful and genius ability to include alcohol into every scene and be still be able to make it interesting, he is incredibly good at illustrating one of his more popular themes, that is humans are good by nature and having a bad impression on somebody is usually a misconception (reminds me of Emerson). The vast majority of his designed characters embody this notion. Doc and Mac from Cannery Row are archetypes in this matter. The many natives met in The Log From the Sea of Cortez also produce a reality models. I think it is a really important theme to understand. Like Obama said, books give the reader the ability to see inside somebody else’s shoes and mitigate.

I highly support the adoption of Cannery Row. It is a great book of beauty and pain, and simply just a true picture of human life and emotions. Plus, its fairly easy to read, but nevertheless contains myriad symbols and themes that are tough to analyze in some passages. The Log is a good book in that Steinbeck can manage to write a whole chapter on the meaning of life during Easter Sunday and still put great meaning into it. My only objection for this book is that it is an extremely long haul. The plot isn’t very enticing (in fact there really isn’t even a plot), and I found myself loosing interest often. If there was another Steinbeck book that wasn’t so meaty, I feel like the summer readers would enjoy the pairing much more.