Dear Mrs.Zrihen
I am in Part 2 of the book “Travels with Charley in search of America” by John Steinbeck. The book is 277 pages long and it’s for 12th graders reader level so it may take me a while to comprehend what Steinbeck is addressing to his readers. The genre of this book is traveling literature, which is when the author documents the experiences of a place for the pleasure of traveling. That goes on the category of Non-Fiction and autobiography. He is also using narrative writing because he is documenting the story himself and he is relating an event or series of events.
I believe the pattern of organization is in chronological order due to the fact that it explains how his journey started, how he prepared for it, where he went first, second, and so on, how he got there, etc. The plot in Part two is mostly about how he has seen the future develop in other cities like Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, etc., and how people used mobile homes more often than he has ever seen. He explains that people use it because if somebody does not like a place, they can just drive off from one place to another place. The Author’s purpose is to inform and to entertain. Steinbeck is using real and factual details about what he went through in his journey throughout America and he explains all the different situations that he encountered. For example, when he was trying to go to Niagara Falls and the Border Patrol asked Steinbeck if Charley was vaccinated. He said he was vaccinated a long time ago and the officer gave him a hard time because if he didn’t have the paper to prove it he had to return to the United States. That situation gave him the impression that if you don’t have it in paper, they won’t trust you. Also describes how people’s attitude changes from one city to the next.
They were many quotes that interested me but the following quote stood out from the rest : “ When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate and I eliminate the possibility of ever finishing.” I like this quote because it made me think about my everyday activities in school especially those that are so challenging and at the same time take a lot of time to accomplish. This quote gave me the inspiration to never give up no matter what the cause is, slowly but surely I will get the task done.
From your student,
Alan Alvarez
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