"I never wrote two books alike", once said John Steinbeck (Shaw, 10). That may be true, but I think that he wrote many of his novels and short stories based on many of the same views. He often focused on social problems, like the "haves" verses the "have nots', and made the reader want to encourage the underdog. Steinbeck's back ground and concern for the common man made him one of the best writers for human …showed first 75 words of 1132 total…

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