John Steinbeck used the childhood in Salinas Valley as a background of the 1952 novel "Eden of Eden". Like the Garden of Eden, the Salinas Valley is lush in a place like a trask, but the rest is as dry and barren as Hamilton. Steinbeck "wrote the story of good and evil, including love and hatred, showing their inseparability" (Krávlová 51). He created a fable about the story of Cain and Abel, the story following three generations, and despite their destiny they chose their own destiny.
East of Eden is a novel published by John Steinbeck who won the Nobel prize in September 1952. Eastern part of Eden, which is well described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, brings in complex details of two families, Trusk and Hamilton and their intertwined stories. The novel was originally written for Steinbeck 's infant, Tom and John (six and a half and four and a half respectively, respectively). Steinbeck wants to explain in detail the Salinas Valley. According to his third and last wife Elaine, Steinbeck thinks that this is his great. Steinbeck talks about the eastern part of Eden: "It has everything, I have been able to understand my skills and occupations for years," he further insisted. "
East of Eden is the twelfth novel by John Steinbecks, he wrote on two young sons, Tom and John Steinbeck. This is a magnificent story in the narrow Salinas Valley in Northern California, a story of the fate of the intertwining of the two families, Trusk and Hamilton. John Steinbeck, the author of the novel, believes that the eastern part of Eden is his wonderful work and claims that all his other works are ways of writing this work (Broome 66). One of the themes of the novel is a consistent struggle of mankind on the way to good and evil. Steinbeck depicts the inevitable struggle of good and evil in society, but it also focuses on the struggle occurring within each individual. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how John Steinbeck's novel "The East of the Garden of Eden" explains the fight between good and evil.
In 1952, John Steinbeck published works called his novels "East of Eden", "Large Works". This is a symbolic reproduction of the Cain and Abel Biblical stories in Salinas Valley, Canada, which later Stevens wrote. His life is hoping to reaffirm his status as a major novelist. Described as the most ambitious novel by Steinbeck, East Eden is centered around two families, Trasks and Hamiltons. Both were the initial residents of the Salinas Valley in California. The author wrote a book to his son, Tom, 6 years old and John 4 years old, and put himself as a small figure in the novel. Steinbeck wants to record the detailed and multifaceted history of Salinas Valley for children. In addition, the author wrote that the novel is "a soul for myself", "It has all the things I can master in my crafts or occupations over the years".