“There are things known and things unknown, and between the two are the doors of perception,” said Aldous Huxley. Cannery Row has a simple premise: Mack and his friends are trying to do something nice for their friend Doc. Mack gets the idea that they should throw a party, and the whole community quickly gets involved. Unfortunately, the party gets out of hand, ruining Doc's lab and house. In an effort to get back into Doc's good graces, Mack and the boys decide to throw another party - but to make it work this time. A procession of linked vignettes describes the lives of the residents of Cannery Row. These constitute subplots which take place concurrently with the main one. Three of these vignettes about Mary Talbot, the Chinaman and Henry may seem to have been added for style, whim and Steinbeck's desire to show different facets of his utopian world, but deliberately written to show the part of a society that works which is the unknown: a fear of change, of miracles, of superstitions and beliefs, and of reasons of horror. Charles Lamb once said, “It is good to love the unknown.” » People all over the world believe in something inexplicable. 92 percent of Americans believe in God. Most believe that opening an umbrella indoors or walking under an open ladder brings bad luck. Adherent.com – a growing collection of religious geography statistics and quotes – found that around 1.2 billion people are non-religious and choose to be on the frontier of the unknown while 2.1 billion believe in Christianity and 1.5 billion believe in Islam. Human nature demands believing in anything for any reason, but the inexplicable has long been the variously perceived safety net to appease a culture. Stein Beck manipulated his novels to look like... middle of paper...... "Quotes about violence." Find the famous quotes you need, ThinkExist.com quotes. Internet. 01May 2011. .“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than anything anyone else can inflict. Jim Morrison quotes Blanton, Dana. "FOXNews.com - More People Believe in God Than Heaven - Polls | AP Polls | GallupPoll | Opinion Polls." FoxNews.com - Latest News | Latest news | Current news. June 18, 2004. the web. May 1, 2011. .More Americans believe in God than in angels, miracles and even heaven. “Major religions ranked by size”. World Religions Religion Statistics Geography ChurchStatistics. Internet. May 1, 2011. Survey site .Adherent.com containing surveys relating to all religions.