| John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men |
| First of all, who is this John Steinbeck guy? Click on his picture to get some info... |
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| "Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species...the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit- for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectability of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." |
| ...from John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize Acceptance speech... |
| Did you know that in 1993, according to the American Libraries Association a High School in Arizona challenged the choice of reading Of Mice and Men because of "profane language, moral statement, treatment of the retarded, and the violent ending". A Tennessee School Superintendent didn't allow the book in his classrooms a year later "due to the language in it". A High School in Georgia also challenged its "vulgar language throughout". In 1997, this novel was attacked by a parents' group in Florida in part because it contains racist language. In a national guide, Herbert N. Foerstel ranks Of Mice and Men as the second most frequently banned book in America i the 1990's. |
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