Dust Bowl

The moment The Grapes of Wrath was published, Steinbeck created a storm that swept through America. Some viewed the book as propaganda while others saw it as novel written "from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled." Despite this controversy, the book developed into a "literary portrait that defined an era." The miserable and destitute living conditions the migrants faced are now the image of the migration to the west. Even now, the book is viewed as the defining authority on…

emotions that were abundant during a particular time frame. Alexandre Hogue depicted rural farming through the lense of the Dust Bowl, a natural disaster that affected the Midwestern states in the 1930’s. In contrast to tragedy, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses since she started her career at age 78, portrayed…

there were job crisis and food shortages and that affected all U.S. workers making some people migrant workers so they can try to earn money to support their families. Because of the Dust Bowl, many people had to abandon their homes because of failed farmes. The Dust Bowl started as a seven year drought and lead to dust storms. Migrant workers now have to work extremely hard and they don't have great housing. Most migrant workers became migrant farming workers and they had to plant and harvest…

political unrest. Also during this time was the Dust Bowl, which was when severe dust storms came through the United States causing droughts, which prevented farming. I chose four books for this project that I thought showed what it was like to go through the Great Depression. The first book that I chose was “Treasures in the Dust” by Tracey Porter, which is about 2 girls, Annie Weightman, and Violet Cobble, who live in Oklahoma during the time of the Dust Bowl. This book was told from both…

Marketing Act to help stop them from going bankrupt, but they had to pay back the loans. Then comes the Dust Bowl, as known as the Dirty Thirties, which made a huge impact to the Great Depression. It was a severe dust storm that caused a lot of damage to the prairies of the U.S. Millions of acres were affected by the dust bowl and farmers had lost their properties. Because of the continuous dust storms, about 100 million acres of farmland didn’t have enough topsoil to grow crops. Poor practice…

hope and helped their situations during the depression. During this time farmers were also hit hard as many of them lost good land and became stuck in what is known as The Dust Bowl. Across the Great Plains a massive drought ruined the farmland and created massive amounts of dust (Holley 1). Due to the lack of water and the dust the land would not produce product for the farmers. This caused a whole new problem for the farmers of America as they went broke and many lost their homes. The Great…

The decision of the lovers and players in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to escape their problems by going into the woods parallels America’s Dust Bowl migration to California and Hollywood after the Great Depression. Similarly, Puck explains to the audience, at the end of the play, that if they did not enjoy it, they should simply imagine it was a dream. This parallels the way that Americans escaped…

The Joads are from Sallisaw, in the far eastern part of Oklahoma, and the Dust Bowl was in the western part. “Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air.” (Page 1). The road that the Joad family had taken was route 66, “Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66—the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi…

The Dust Bowl refers to the period of time during which the Great Plains was devastated by severe dust storms and drought. This caused widespread agricultural failure, particularly in the areas hardest hit: large portions of Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico. At the same time, The Great…

Depression. The book takes place during the 1930s in which the depression and the dust bowl were both their height of destruction On October 29th, the stock market crashed causing the nation to go in a panic state. In the midwest, there were massive sand and dust storms that were causing houses to be covered in dust and animals were suffocating. People who lived on the plains were mostly farmers and the drought and the dust ruined their crops and the depression was also happening so the prices…