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"This study will examine the characterization of Doc in John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row. The novel is a celebration of life, including the grime and the glory, and Doc's character is meant to personify this broadly inclusive philosophy. As we read of Cannery Row's people:

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps. gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing (1).
Doc is a scientific man, to be sure, but he is also a man grounded in the pleasures of everyday life. We first see him leaving his Western Biological Laboratory to buy five quarts of ..."

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This paper analyzes a study done of the Glenrose Cannery Site in the 1970s. The various excavations at the site between 1969 and 1973 are discussed in detail, and the results are analyzed and evaluated.

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"The analysis of fish, pollen, shellfish, mammalian and avian remains and artifacts from the site were studied to find "the origins of the densely populated culturally complex, maritime adaptation of the Pacific Northwest Coast", and "the origin of the Locarna Bach and Marpole phases in the last millenium B.C." (Matson, 1976) Little is known about this and views range from Asiatio origins to local development. (Matson, 1976) "Thus is was hoped that the investigation of the Glenrose midden would shed some light on the origins of the unique Northwest Coast pattern by detailing the subsistence strategies related to pre-Locarno material on the edge of the Fraser Delta.""

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"The plot line of Cannery Row is minimal. Near the beginning of the story Mack, the leader of a group of men says, "That Doc is a fine fellow. We ought to do something for him" (8). That something becomes a desire to throw Doc a Party. After one disastrous and riotous attempt the story concludes in a loud and long party. The plot, however, is not the main element of the story. Cannery Row, set in the early 1940's, is a series of characterizations and antedates finely detailed and interwoven to present a slice of life and a view of mankind.

Cannery Row is a section of Monterey, a rural, coastal village south of San Francisco. "Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and ..."

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This paper will compare and contrast the nature of Mack, a character in John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" and Sula, a character in "Sula" by Toni Morrison. Evidence will be used to find their similarities and, also, their differences using how they behave within the mediums of the two authors.

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John Steinbeck is a model example of the modern American nostalgia for the primitive. His rural heroes, illiterate and often weak-minded, are nevertheless essentially noble; they are poeticized rustics. His region is the Salinas Valley in Central California and the nearby Monterey coast. Here live his poetic Mexicans, his sentimental cannery workers, his eccentric and colorful fisherman; here his rural tragedies unfold in the atmosphere of the naturalistic novel mixed with that of the Greek pastoral. Steinbeck admires the foreign elements in the American population; and like most regionalists he believes the elemental life of the country infinitely superior to that of the city (Astro, 199). When Steinbeck's characters are established securely on the land they are hard-working and good-hearted, if somewhat inclined to drink and argumentation. When their agricultural activities are dislocated -- when the Joads are driven from Oklahoma, or when a seductive woman intrudes her way into the agrarian dream of Lennie and George in "Of Mice and Men" -- tragedy and misfortune result.

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A review of the literature of John Steinbeck with the emphasis on how his novels are based on self-characters, representing Steinbeck himself in some ways and also hidden characters that represent his family, his friends and the events of his life.

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"The greatest example of self-character is seen in East of Eden. In A Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letter Steinbeck calls the novel "the story of my country and the story of me." The story is narrated by Steinbeck as himself, telling the story as the Grandson of the main character, Samuel Hamilton. Samuel Hamilton is a character similar to Steinbeck's own father. Samuel Hamilton has the Irish heritage of his father and has also achieved the same kind of success, where Samuel Hamilton became a blacksmith, well digger and doctor and Steinbeck's own father was the county treasurer. In both cases this is a respectable profession but not one that bought great wealth. Samuel Hamilton's life is also similar to Steinbeck's fathers in that he married and had four children and also that they struggled financially in bringing up their children. This is in parallel to Steinbeck's own childhood with the brothers and sisters also having the characteristics of his own siblings.
In Of Mice and Men, the most obvious hidden character is the self-character of Steinbeck himself. The narrator in the story is the voice of Steinbeck and the setting is Steinbeck's home of Salinas.
In the main characters of George and Lennie, we can see links to Steinbeck's parents and also to himself. George and Lennie are farmers who dream of a place of their own. This is similar to the struggle of his parents, who settled in Salinas, achieving their dream of finding a place of their own. The main theme here that links the two is the struggle to achieve one's dreams and how this often ends in failure. This also extends to the self-character of Steinbeck. The failure of George and Lennie represents Steinbeck's fears about achieving his own dreams. The relationship of George and Lennie can also be seen as mirroring his relationship with his wife, with George the strong character representing himself and Lennie the weaker character representing his wife. George's anger at times towards Lennie can be seen as a mirror of Steinbeck's reaction to his role as protector of his wife, with this also showing how he fears that he will not be able to support his wife fully."

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