John Steinbeck Series: the Moon Has Gone
About This Novel
"The Moon Has Gone" is a novel by Steinbeck published in 1942. The novel takes the German occupation of a Nordic country (an allusion to Norway) during World War II as the historical background. It describes the story of the anti-fascist people in a small town led by Mayor Oton who resisted the Nazi occupying forces. What is different from general anti-fascist works is that in this novel, Steinbeck's descriptions of the positive and negative characters try to show the two sides of human nature: the heroic (or fascist) side and the ordinary side. He did not exalt the anti-fascist people and write about them as "high and mighty", but highlighted their love for freedom and their various forms of resistance as they could not bear the aggression of the occupying forces. He also did not demonize the German occupying forces in his description. In his writing, these invaders were weak and even full of humanity.
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