CoLLiSioN47
Mar 20, 2008
Book Reports / Cannery Row Project... Steinbeck [6]
Cannery Row Project...
My Topic: We have been looking at theme and tone in the book. The tone of Cannery Row is melancholic, humorous, (look at your sheet for the list of terms we discussed). The themes can be drawn from the handout of terms we've discussed or from your own thoughts and conjuring of what themes are portrayed in the novel. Complacency should be mentioned despite any other thematic choices. Complacency has its place.
:What I have:
Perhaps Steinbeck's most important theme is that what you see is not always what you get. Although most of them are poor and socially outcasted, they always look out for each other and help out in Cannery Row. Steinbeck's characters are more concerned about each other than about material matters, and they help one another whatever the consequences. Their caring is what creates the pathos and warmth in the story. The theme and tone in the novel is not one, but many.
One of the most visible themes in this story is the caring that Cannery Row has. Dora, the whorehouse owner takes part in philanthropy and donates money. Her girls, which are prostitutes, go to the sick and needy and comfort them. Mack and the boys, the bums, think of ideas to make people happy, such as planning a birthday for Doc and getting frogs for him. Lee Chong, the store owner, helps people in any kind of trouble by sending groceries to them or lets them pay him back later for what they took. Finally, Doc, the young marine biologist, takes care of the sick, lends people money and is respected by all of Monterey for helping everyone out. Each and every individual in Cannery Row has a good and bad side, poor or rich they always care for each other.
What should I add or improve?
Cannery Row Project...
My Topic: We have been looking at theme and tone in the book. The tone of Cannery Row is melancholic, humorous, (look at your sheet for the list of terms we discussed). The themes can be drawn from the handout of terms we've discussed or from your own thoughts and conjuring of what themes are portrayed in the novel. Complacency should be mentioned despite any other thematic choices. Complacency has its place.
:What I have:
Perhaps Steinbeck's most important theme is that what you see is not always what you get. Although most of them are poor and socially outcasted, they always look out for each other and help out in Cannery Row. Steinbeck's characters are more concerned about each other than about material matters, and they help one another whatever the consequences. Their caring is what creates the pathos and warmth in the story. The theme and tone in the novel is not one, but many.
One of the most visible themes in this story is the caring that Cannery Row has. Dora, the whorehouse owner takes part in philanthropy and donates money. Her girls, which are prostitutes, go to the sick and needy and comfort them. Mack and the boys, the bums, think of ideas to make people happy, such as planning a birthday for Doc and getting frogs for him. Lee Chong, the store owner, helps people in any kind of trouble by sending groceries to them or lets them pay him back later for what they took. Finally, Doc, the young marine biologist, takes care of the sick, lends people money and is respected by all of Monterey for helping everyone out. Each and every individual in Cannery Row has a good and bad side, poor or rich they always care for each other.
What should I add or improve?