Travels with Charlie: A Dystopian America
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In setting out to discover America with his poodle "Charlie," John Steinbeck mainly discovers a dystopia driven by excessive and often specious desires. When Steinbeck discusses the concept of "junk" in American society in Travels with Charlie, he is talking about how our obsessive focus on things and materialism in modern culture has junked our societies and undermine our interpersonal relations. Materialism is replacing spiritualism in American society due to increasing consumerism in a capitalistic society. This analysis will argue that Steinbeck's concept of "junk" is his means of describing how materialism has undermined the spiritual values and way of life of a former era in American society. There is little denying that there is a focus on junk in many of the experiences had by the author on his travels throughout America. We see him visit all of the manufacturing areas like Flint, Cleveland, and other places such as New England where he sees towns ringed in "junk" which includes rusty automobiles, trash, and other refuse in
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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