Copy examples from the novel that show the author’s use of description.

Steinbeck uses detailed descriptions all the way through his narrative. You just need to scan your text. The second sentence of chapter one launches into a description,

The roosters had been crowing for some time,
and the early pigs were already beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and bits of
wood to see whether anything to eat had been overlooked. Outside the brush house in the
tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings.