cannery row
...e people of Cannery Row are scared of him except a little 10 years old named Andy. Andy was there visiting family and didn't know all the rumors of him. Andy would watch the old Chinaman come in and out of the water each night. One night he decided to approach the old man. The old Chinaman talked to the little boy for about two hours and then returned to the water. No one ever heard what they talked about. There was something strange about him, he had one brown eye and one green eye. Then there is Mack and the boys. Mack is the main leader of this group. He is a drunk and lives in an old vacant building, he conned from the town grocer. Eddie is an understudy bartender. He fills in at the local bars when needed. Everytime he works he steals alcohol for "the boys". He lives with Mack. Next is Hazel, who was named after his mother's sister. He is also a poor drunk. Hazel helps the Doc of the town. He loves to help with the animals. Guy is next, he is married but he left his wife to live with Mack, because he was tired of being tied down. He is a mechanic. Most of these guys like to sponge off of all the towns people. They are the town drunks and bums. Doc owns and operators the Western Biological Laboratory. He studies all types of animals. He is a big softy and he helps out Mack and the boys a lot. Mack and the boys tend to take advantage of Doc because he has a lot of money. Doc feels sorry for them so he usually helps them out. Sometimes Doc gives the boys jobs to do like collecting animals and he will pay them. But Doc is very careful that the boys don't outsmart him. There is a young boy named Frankie. He is only eleven and he was looking for work on Cannery Row, so Doc hired him. His family is very poor, and Frankie wanted to help out. Also he was very slow, so they didn't want him in the schools. He became very interested in the work Doc did. So Frankie began helping Doc day after day. Soon Doc began loving the child and aloud him to live with him. Lee Chong owns the town grocery store. Mack and the boys are always trying too get free things from him. Mack and the boys borrow his truck when they help Doc. Lee is an old man with a big family. All the towns people can charge things and he will let them pay as they can. Mack and the boys set out to get frogs for Doc. On the way to get the frogs many things happen along the way. The truck broke down and Guy tried to fix it but he need some parts. So he set out to get some. He never made it back because he was involved in a bar fight and was arrested. He was drunk and went to jail. So the rest of the boys had to try and fix it themselves. The guys killed a chicken and they started a fire to cook it. The owner of the property came o...