“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it...”(Brown 40). People went through emotional turmoil throughout the Great Depression. The book The Boys in the Boat is by Daniel James Brown, and it is about a guy by the name of Joe Rantz. Joe Rantz had gone to college during the Great Depression, and he joined the rowing team in order to keep his scholarship. The book talks about how he survived the depression, and overcame his initial struggles. The Great Depression was a time of hardship and struggle for the people who lived during this time; its impacts destroyed the times before it and created hardship during it, and it was solved with Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal. Before the stock market crash of 1929, the twenties were a time of rebellion. The 1920s are known as the Roaring Twenties. Many changes occurred
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Thula had a twin who was also the wife of Joe’s brother. After moving multiple times, Thula made Joe live by himself in a schoolhouse, because his family essentially kicked him out.Later when Thula passed his father asked him to move back in, but Joe and Joyce were their own family. He lived in Sequim, Washington, where he worked many odd jobs to keep himself afloat. He met his future wife Joyce here as well.Joe and Joyce both attended college when they came of age and they had to find time in between classes, work, and Joe’s rowing team practice, to spend time with one another (Brown 63). Joe practiced for hours and hours after the school day ended.For most of his rowing career he remained in the number three seat out of nine. Al Ulbrickson, the upperclassmen coach, often thought about moving Joe to a different seat, because Joe was known to only focus when it suited him (Brown
Thula had a twin who was also the wife of Joe’s brother. After moving multiple times, Thula made Joe live by himself in a schoolhouse, because his family essentially kicked him out.Later when Thula passed his father asked him to move back in, but Joe and Joyce were their own family. He lived in Sequim, Washington, where he worked many odd jobs to keep himself afloat. He met his future wife Joyce here as well.Joe and Joyce both attended college when they came of age and they had to find time in between classes, work, and Joe’s rowing team practice, to spend time with one another (Brown 63). Joe practiced for hours and hours after the school day ended.For most of his rowing career he remained in the number three seat out of nine. Al Ulbrickson, the upperclassmen coach, often thought about moving Joe to a different seat, because Joe was known to only focus when it suited him (Brown