If it were not for World War II, the Depression era might have extended. This war solidified the role of America as a global power. Moreover, the nation drastically changed because now America had to deal with new challenges. In the novel, The Moon is Down, Steinbeck denotes from a character, that the war indeed changed “outwardly”. World War II marked the beginning of new achievements that took years to improve. America made innovations that would last a lifetime. During the war, they kept making weapons and better ones that helped triumph this war. Before that triumph, there was chaos in America due to the fact of major agricultural losses from the Dust Bowl and unemployed workers during the Great Depression. These two events redefined the role of government in society and what once was a disordered country became the world’s greatest power.
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He loved everything about being involved and the thrill that came with it. Steinbeck spent several months covering the war in Vietnam as a reporter and mentioned in an article that it was “a war not like any we have been involved in” (“Steinbeck, War Reporter”). His reports were very complicated as well as detailed because he had a way with words and knew exactly how to describe what was surrounding him. In the previous article Steinbeck, War Reporter, it mentions that Steinbeck has “this trademark immediacy and passion.” The novel The Grapes of Wrath, was based on the reporting work he did, spending time with the Okies in California. As well as in World War II, he lived in the army quarters with some of the crew and published an interpretation of the training and missions that occurred. Steinbeck valued the time he spent getting to know his surroundings as well as the culture and encompass them in his
He loved everything about being involved and the thrill that came with it. Steinbeck spent several months covering the war in Vietnam as a reporter and mentioned in an article that it was “a war not like any we have been involved in” (“Steinbeck, War Reporter”). His reports were very complicated as well as detailed because he had a way with words and knew exactly how to describe what was surrounding him. In the previous article Steinbeck, War Reporter, it mentions that Steinbeck has “this trademark immediacy and passion.” The novel The Grapes of Wrath, was based on the reporting work he did, spending time with the Okies in California. As well as in World War II, he lived in the army quarters with some of the crew and published an interpretation of the training and missions that occurred. Steinbeck valued the time he spent getting to know his surroundings as well as the culture and encompass them in his