In my American Literature class we started to read an article on John Steinbeck, we read half of it in class and I read the rest at home. In class we talked about how Steinbeck was writing during WWII and other harsh times in life.
In class he mentioned on how life has conflicts, that's what makes it interesting. Also on how what makes things like more good is having evil. That's what Steinbeck was also trying to say.
In my opinion I actually agree with them, because imagine just having a life with no conflicts, I mean that sounds great. But, there's nothing interesting. My teacher gave us an example, imagine reading a novel where the character is named Bill, he wakes up kisses his wife in the forehead tucks his kids in, and goes to work. Then he comes back home eats dinner shower goes to sleep. Imagine the novel just being about that, there is nothing interesting. Sometimes evil can just make things better.
When Dr. Preston gave us two links that take you to the same article I chose " what makes us happy and sad" I chose that one because I found it interesting and I wanted to know about it. " the article on John Steinbeck" just seemed to simple and boring to me.
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