Central Ideas in "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck

Can you imagine traveling to America with your special camper? The only company you have is your pet. John Steinbeck, author of 'Charlie with Travel Charlie' wrote about a road trip to a multinational visit in 1960. "What kind of person is American today?" This is the beginning of his journey. His trip began in Long Island, New York, and followed the US border from Maine to Northwest. After he traveled in the Pacific Northwest, he went to the Salinas Valley in California, then through Texas and crossed the deep south.

Five years ago this year I visited California Central to conduct an early study of John Steinbeck's 1962 symbolic bestseller, "Looking for a Charlie Travel in America". My idea is simple. I faithfully reviewed the famous Roadstein, Steinbeck and Poodle he made in the USA in the autumn of 1960 and I wrote books about what I saw, the people I met and my idea . . September 23, 2010 - 50 years after Steinbeck left 50 years of contact with his love country - I am alone at the summer house of Sag Harbor 's great writer in New York. My initial goal was to record how the United States changed on the Steinbeck Expressway - like a senior reporter. But eventually I will release a lot of Stellbeck's novels and articles in his beloved "nonfiction" book, change the way of traveling and Charlie will read forever.

So the journey of John Steinbeck and Charlie began: searching for the United States. In the 1960s, Steinbeck and his French Poodle, Charlie rediscovered the United States he wrote and traveled about 10,000 miles on his track to the camper Rosinante. In the 50th anniversary edition, the reader was warned that "I will never treat this traveler literally as a novelist in the heart of Steinbeck", but is not the truth still in the novel? Also, does anyone do not want to correct your favorite story when you return?

Travel with Charlie: "Looking for America" ​​is his trip to travel with his Poodle Charlie in 1960. Steinbeck lamented his lost youth and roots and gave America criticism and praise. According to Steinbeck's son Tom, Steinbeck's trip was because he knew he was dead and wanted to see the country at the end. Steinbeck's last novel, "Our Winter of Discontent" (1961), explores the moral demise of America. The main character Ethan is dissatisfied with his own moral degeneration and the moral collapse of the people around him. This book has a very different tone from Steinbeck 's immoral and ecological position in earlier works such as Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row. This is not an important success. Many critics are aware of the importance of this novel, but I am disappointed that it is not another angry grape.