“ The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in this world…has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime guilt-and there is the story of mankind”(270). This is Lee’s interpretation of what he feels about rejection and the result of it. As he says this, he says it plain and clear that …showed first 75 words of 1800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1800 total…The Hamiltons and the Trasks both inhabit these traits as well as Catherine Ames. All of them were just simple exhibits of American lives. However this is displayed internationally. As proof of what Lee said about the story of mankind, rejection leading into anger, Steinbeck defiantly ascertains Lee’s statement. All and all today will always be a replay of the past only with its unique individuality, but the story will always be the same.