John Steinbeck

With the blessings of his late father resonating in his head, young farmer Joseph Wayne leaves the family house in Vermont to start a new life in California. There he will realize his dream of building a farm in a fertile valley, while increasingly obsessed with an imposing tree that grows next to the house, he will end up convinced that the spirit of his parent dwells in him. Prosperity decides to bring his brothers and families with him, but one of them, frightened by what he considers to be Joseph's pagan beliefs, will cut down the tree. And everything will change forever.

Two field workers in California during the Great Depression - George Milton, an intelligent but untrained man, and Lennie Small, a man of great stature and strength, but limited mental skills - are on their way to another part of California in Soledad. They expect one day to fulfill their shared dream of having their own lands and their own animals. The part of Lennie's dream is just to take care (and touch) soft rabbits on the farm. This dream is one of the stories

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After the American Secession War, and after his wife's suicide, Cyrus is in the care of his newborn son, Adam, which will lead him to enter into a new marriage from which his brother Charles will be born. After the years, the belief that Adam is too weak and needs to be strengthened will lead Cyrus to force his firstborn to enlist in the army. Meanwhile, his brother will stay in the care of the family estate and his mother, who will die shortly after tuberculosis.