Monday, October 31, 2011

Travels With Charley Day 8

Steinbeck has made it to New York State by the end of my reading today.  However, instead of writing in detail about the land he passed, he wrote about people and historical figures.  He also commented on the aggression of states through the use of their street signs.  The thing I liked most was how he described the differences in a city between morning, afternoon, and night.  You get a completely different view of a city depending on when you go out and with whom.  He comments on how he was in Prauge with a man that travels for a living at the same.  The two were in the same city at the same time, but on the plane ride home they described two very different cities.  Neither of them was lying, they just had different experiences with different people.

2 comments:

  1. This is, without a doubt, one of my favorites. We all translate the landscape we travel through, don't we.

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  2. This book sound really good and you seem to enjoy it. Thats cool how he sees the differences between the day and night. This guy in the book must have a lot a character to be able to see the people for what they really are.

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