John Steinbeck: The Pastures of Heaven Richard Whiteside reads his son often from Herodotus, Thucydides and from Xenophon's "Anabasis" before. "Everything has to be done to mankind is capable, in these three volumes recorded. The love and hate, the stupid falsehood and short-sightedness, heroism and greatness and sadness the human race -. everything you find in here " tale is told by the people in the valley of the sky, not a valley in Karlifornien, far from Salinas where John Steinbeck was born, the valley so beautiful that when. had it once looked, the request was stirring to stay there forever. The valley as a haven for people who long for a beautiful life. But what are the people, the father of his son in the ancient Greek historians had read, in a valley as "The Valley of Heaven", will not deprive the people suffering. Characteristic of this are already the circumstances, such as the Valley was discovered. Around the year 1776, which is Carmelo Mission of Alta California established. Some flee Indians who do not accept the new religion out of their huts, but recaptured by the military. On the way back to camp it happens, the column startled a young deer, which then takes flight, disappears behind a hill crest. can have the Kopral the desire to follow the animal and drives his horse, by holly and cactus hochzureiten the hill above the Koporal arrived on behalf of Christian mission to throw the first man on earth, a glimpse into the wonderful valley, long stretched green pastures on the deer graze peacefully, and the corporal cries delightedly: "Holy Mother of God ... this is truly the valley of heaven, the Lord has promised us." is now inhabited the valley for generations, houses, farms, a school. "The Valley of Heaven" can not help the people to a peaceful life. They create illusions and become locked in struggle, in suffering. A fate after another joins. Steinbeck has prompted some to grow up mentally retarded children in the valley leave. I wonder why? Here, of course, be speculated particular varied. Healthy people are not cope with their lives because they have their own characteristics. Why should it sick then do better? There are certain unabwindbare fates, of course, anyway, meet the people in the valley of the sky some very unique choices, furrow another dark gap in her life as wife Deventer, which it obviously mentally ill child will not want to send a specialist, because they therefore reckoned that their child was going to a nursing home. She wants to keep her daughter for himself. Of course this is a selfish motive, the selfishness of the mother goes to the child's health. Mother love can go strange ways, the consequence of our history is hard. Then there will prohibit it by the farmers Shark, who claims to make good money transactions, and finally broke, and his daughter, to meet with men. His life to set up a bogus building, what is that? particularly touched me the fate of Junius Maltby, who lives very impoverished and neglected in the valley, which is due to his laziness of people hated almost already, your house and yard in wretched condition, he is a diligent reader and his son from "Treasure Island" aloud. Junius Maltby is doing well, he has nothing to complain about, because of company pressure, but converts and moves to San Francisco in order to lead a civil life, while also thinking about the future of his son. Sun weaves a John Steinbeck fate dance, leaves many figures passing by. A familiar form of the novel who does not Steinbeck. In each chapter, another life is presented. A good choice I think the chapters are combined but still, because some characters appear as minor characters here and there again. In this way, John Steinbeck weaves into human life and puts it on a patch of earth. Wonderful. advised 
Mark Twain: bang head Wilson praise hymn to a blast head Mark Twain in 1894, was first published final novel, "Wilson head bang," forgotten, is the 100th Death appeared again, and we look towards the same times as the novel is on American, ah ... "Pudd'nhead Wilson, "said üngefähr called the" slush lamp "would have been even funnier than" bang head, "but we will stay with bang head, as David Wilson about the year 1830, when he had still been no mud bulb into the Mississippi small Kaff Dawson's Landing and came through a quirky strange statement to the people only as bang head went through the titling would have kept his life, he would not be through a process that Sherlock Holmes would have been deeply impressed, become a hero, and Sherlock Holmes in anyway Neide would have been pale, head bang because Wilson already had mastered the technique of fingerprinting, which is not officially invented , was only "in Francis Galton's" fingerprints "(Finger Prints, London 1892) presented to the public," as we educate the epilogue by Manfred Pfister, the people of Dawson's Landing all this but schnurzegal they hiellten but Wilson's collection of fingerprints for childish and foolish, until they stop about twenty years later, when attorney David bang head Wilson led his ingenious process, then there are so looked the same, has David Wilson was never in itself been a blast head, but the mud pears rather the people running around, Mark Twain is on such a speculation, as it dawned on me just in the brain but repektvoll concealed, David Wilson as they had somehow but in fact respected, but his career as Rechtsanwal long time had been squandered, and it had only a miracle until all prejudices were smashed against the alleged crack head. What else is going on "Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town" , the mulatto Roxana there enslaved in the house of a white man to raise two babies had Tom was theirs, Chambers that of their Lord, and now comes just the highlight of the whole: Roxana was considered a black woman, although she looked phenotypically white, blond and blue-eyed lured her child, so the Tom looked as white as Chambers, and their rule because they are the children anyway, not just watched, Roxana so the children easily swap was because you Tom, who was considered a Negro, and later should not be sold to the South, the southern states namely Roxana prepared a terrible discomfort, since there the slavery was much more brutal, wanted to spare this fate her son, replace Roxana the babies so only the clothes needed in this way Tom to Chambers was and Chambers to Tom, why the child of the rule was sent into slavery, Roxana's white-skinned Negro child was allowed to live as a free person, but this was not without problems of place because Chambers, who was now called Tom, Roxana very pampered and spoiled, was as an adult was a reckless, ruthless man, in front of his brother, who was but the white, imperious performed in the life of Tom was otherwise slovenly and indebted. On the basis of the baby swap winds together an act that outrageous, just unbelievable, is in the Mark Twain, and illustrating also express again the plot of the story, would that not be the origin of a person for the development of critical but the socialization as a man grows up. With the baby swap out Twain racism and slavery into the absurd, also because Roxana and her baby look white
"Actually, Roxy was as white as could be." epilogue It is now impossible to discern whether Wilson bang head, or Roxana and Tom are the main characters. All are equally important for the novel, however, Wilson, and I find that odd, slides out for a long time in the novel, and later reappears. Although the novel's action is the last logical angle to the building, so no slating is to be expected, the structure of the novel is to question that. It is better to set scenic, not the thread from the eye is allowed because the scenes to build on each other, but I will leave the impression that the novel is too fragmented. The other, and I do not know if Mark Twain makes that more so decisive actions to be told very briefly aligned, the voltage is driven only at the end point, the novel therefore leaves a mixed impression, but discord, and Doppelgängerei at Mark Twain, however, nothing unusual, and can stretch easily a form of bang head to the hero, is to be made of white black and vice versa. The Wilson, who's not exactly a gematschte Pear writes in an amusing almanac / calendar, the taste of the reader can read. Including conflicting: "Why do we look forward to a birth and grieve at a funeral because we are not the person at issue
bang head Wilson calendar?."
