Every book can be summarized in 6 paragraphs….
- South American Editorial
- Author: John Steinbeck
- Book for interested in: U.S..
- What will? A veteran and already celebrated Steinbeck decides to leave with his dog, Charley, At the beginning of the 60 "In search of North America". It goes up to a caravan and leaves a very interesting social portrait of American society that perhaps helps to understand much of what happens in the country in the 21st century.
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-These must be the most secret elections we have had. People don't say their opinion.
-Maybe they don't have any.
-Perhaps, or maybe they don't want to say it. I remember that there were elections in which there were quite tasty discussions. I have not even heard a. And that was what I discovered throughout the country: No discussion, No exchange of ideas
Steinbeck talks about the elections that faced Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. And talks about a problem that in its chronicle seems incipient, catches your attention, in which the detachment towards politics is mixed with two sides that begin not to communicate. Good literature is used for that, To understand the germ of many things that happen today.
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A sad soul can kill you sooner, much sooner, than a germ.
The book leaves some sublime phrases, how are you, that show the author's vital passion for living life with intensity.
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If at some point in your trip you find a man with guts, marks the spot. I want to go see it. I have not seen anything other than cowardice and opportunism. This was a nation of giants. Where have they gone? You can't defend a nation with a directory. Men are needed. Where are they?
Steinbeck is finding characters with which he talks about politics, economy, religion, racism ... the text is full of the ideas of a society that he goes out to look for and to the one who gives voice. There is already an air of country that feels decadent, that despite having won the war is lost. And it's curious, Because that same air feels in a similar novel in the form and background, “On the way, de Jack Kerouac”, that we also analyze in this section. Read the two books, that of a renowned intellectual, Steinbeck, and that of almost a vagabon, Kerouac,, It gives you a very global idea of ??what was that US and the US today.
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Most people when they say West Costa refers to California. Swarms of people, populations that double and triple, While tax officials complain about the growing weight of improvements and the need to take care of a new batch of homeless
And 1960, Explain the book, The famous California was already the homeland of the vagrants in the United States. «Travel with Charley» is one of those books to be read if it is intended to travel to the US, again as we said before, To understand what happens now.
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Now I warn that there was more than the more than the more blacks that I have seen and known then. How they were not offended or insulted, They were not defensive or combative. As his dignity was intact, They didn't need to be run over, And since the boys Cooper had never heard that they were lower, His minds could extend to their true limits
The author speaks of a family of American black skin, The Cooper, And leave a treaty on how racism works. When crossing the south of the country with its caravan, The text enters fully into the enormous problem of xenophobia that still divided the United States. The masterful story that makes the animators of New Orleans could already be a book. Mature white women who went to a school where they had accepted a black girl to insult her and say all kinds of obscenities between the germine of the public.
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With so many surveys and polls, With newspapers that bring more opinions than news in such a way that we no longer distinguish one of the other
The phrase is to frame in the current media panorama. And again: It is from 1960!
| Style | 8,80/10 |
| Content | 9,30/10 |
| Valoración | 9,05/10 |
