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My Favourite Book in English The Red Pony by John Steinbeck Performed by Mary Proskurina and Polly Sachkova (School № 1014 , 8 B)

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Mary’s hobbies are reading and computer Mary is fond of fantasy and adventure novels Her favourite author is Stephenie Meyer Polly’s hobbies are reading and travelling She is fond of classical literature and science fiction Her favourite author is John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labour, but there is also a streak of worship of the soil in his books, which does not always agree with his matter-of-fact sociological approach. After the rough and earthy humour of Tortilla Flat, he moved on to more serious fiction, often aggressive in its social criticism, to In Dubious Battle (1936), which deals with the strikes of the migratory fruit pickers on California plantations. This was followed by Of Mice and Men (1937), the story of the imbecile giant Lennie, and a series of admirable short stories collected in the volume The Long Valley (1938). In 1939 he published what is considered his best work, The Grapes of Wrath, the story of Oklahoma tenant farmers who, unable to earn a living from the land, moved to California where they became migratory workers. In 1962 he rexeived the Nobel Prize for Literature. John Steinbeck , born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California. After publishing some novels and short stories, Steinbeck first became widely known with Tortilla Flat (1935), a series of humorous stories about Monterey paisanos.

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The Red Pony Penguin Readers

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Jody Tiflin The main character of the book is a boy Jody. It is through the red pony, which Jody receives as a gift from his father, that he learns about death and life. Like wise, it is through other animals that populate this book that Jody also learns about sex, old age, sickness, and birth. Through Billy and Jody's mother, Jody learns compassion and understanding. We like Jody because he is so real, his behavior is so natural. (we can see his happiness when he took his pony as a present or his anger when the buzzards were eating the horse’s eye, his best friend eye!!!) He is a frank and complicated person at the same time. It’s captivating to get to know him through the book narration. You really acquire a great life experience.

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Recommendation. We recommend reading this book because it helps to understand and feel the life atmosphere of those difficult years. Therefore Steinbeck’s life too as writing the book the author was guided by his personal memoirs and uncovered his soul verge.