24
Apr
2009
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Fact: I do not like John Steinbeck. Fact: When in tenth grade American Literature we ran out of time at the end of the year to read The Grapes of Wrath, I was happy. Fact: I still have never read The Grapes of Wrath despite the facts that it is my mother’s favorite book, and I generally like books about every day, working-class people. Fact: I had to read The Pearl in eighth grade, and Of Mice and Men in ninth grade and those are the only two Steinbeck books I’ve read, judging his whole oeuvre from said books I read a dozen years ago. Fact: John Steinbeck is one of America’s most cherished and prolific authors.
