![]() His treatment of the South completely in terms of the racial tumult in the 1960s is understandable, as brittleness characterized the mood of the South during that period and anger was the predominant emotion. ![]() Although the author foresaw the looming problems of pollution, waste of natural resources, and urban decay, he did not foresee the degree to which the racial problem would stay to be southern. ![]() Here, Steinbeck tries to answer the questions: What is America? What defines it? What makes America something unique? While the author sees the beautiful, he also finds the ugly and fearful side of America.Racism is one of the themes tackled in Travels with Charley, which Steinbeck highlights in the fourth chapter of the last part of the book. The American writer’s determination to travel across the entire breadth of the American continent was an obvious indication of his search for America, a usual theme in American travel literature. In his travelogue, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962), John Steinbeck recounts his trip across the United States with his French standard poodle Charley in a custom-made camper. ![]() ![]() “Travels with Charley: In Search of America” Steinbeck and Racism ![]()
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