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 The impact shows how far america has come from discrimination because in the novel discrimination is a terrible thing and john stienback expresses how he feels about it by creating characters   a certain way   for example crooks was an example.

  the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.                                                                                                                                          my mom said the american dream is anything you want it to be.

    John stienback when he was little   this is him smoking    after of mice and men he wrote  this book.

                  Feb 27, 1902 John Ernst Steinbeck III is born in Salinas, California. He is the third of four children (and the only boy) born to John Steinbeck, Sr., the treasurer of Monterey County, and his wife Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, a schoolteacher. As an older boy, Steinbeck will work summers on the nearby Spreckels Farm. 1919 John Steinbeck graduates from Salinas High School and enrolls at Stanford University. When not at school, he works odd jobs at ranches, shops, farms and factories. 1925 After six years as an on-again, off-again student, Steinbeck leaves Stanford for the last time. In November he travels to New York City to start his life as a writer. He never receives his degree. 1926 Steinbeck returns to California and settles in Lake Tahoe. He works as a handyman at a local resort. Aug 1929 Cup of Gold , Steinbeck's first novel, is published. The book focuses on seventeenth-century pirate ...