Monday, November 27, 2023

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some references that seem out of date. 

+ + + 

I like Steinbeck’s prose a lot.

I also liked the few pages in which he described his drive through Wisconsin.

He’s good at capturing natural speech on the page and at making simple things mean so much more.

The redwoods in the Northwest also stand out, as well as his wrestling with the south and its racial baggage. To end the problem, more than the whites have to change the way they treat the blacks. The blacks also have to change the way they treat the whites. And will any of that ever really happen before the whites and blacks meld together and become something new?

+ + +

This post appeared on Eric Lanke's blog, an association executive and author. You can follow him on Twitter @ericlanke or contact him at eric.lanke@gmail.com.

No comments:

Post a Comment