Dust Bowl

During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, there was mass unemployment, starvation, and millions desperate for a job. Farmers in the midwest, in particular, were hounding for employment, for their farms were destroyed by drought, the dust that followed the drought, the sweltering summers, and the harsh winters. They could no longer sustain a suitable life on their land, so they moved west to California, where jobs working on large farms were advertized. Workers expected livable wages and a…

farmers were buying fewer good and services due to rising prices, stagnant wages, and an unbalanced distribution of income. Numerous farmers decided to move to California in an act of desperation because they were avoiding the dust bowl (severely dry land and erosion caused dust to fly everywhere ruining farms and homes) and many were so poor that they lived in shacks. In another act of desperation many farmers kept the farm but bought new machines in hopes of getting some work done, but this…

unemployment rates, and the Dust Bowl are what brought on the hardships of numerous Americans.…

of all those effect, this period of time was given the title The Great Depression. There were a variety of things that led to this period such as: Stock Market crash, bank failures, The Gold Standard, American Economic Policy with Europe, and the Dust Bowl. Those are the 5 main factors that influenced the start of the Great Depression. The Stock Market Crash wasn’t the start of it all but it was one of the biggest symptoms beginning on October 29, 1929. Black Tuesday cleaned out many investors…

that the family is packing up to head to California to find work because they have been tractored off their land. In John Steinbeck's book, The Grapes of Wrath, demonstrates the life and hardships families faced during the periods of time of the “Dust Bowl” and Great Depression. Throughout the book, Steinbeck displays many themes and symbols that are there but are hard to see. Family is a major theme and a mean of survival in the book. The Joad family shows loyalty and commitment to each…

many losing their homes to foreclosure. It was a time of hardship and suffering that affected nearly every American. I would say it was a hopeless time in their lives, especially in the lives of the people living in the Great Plains, for the “Dust Bowl” of 1941 had to have taken from the people whatever the Great Depression did not. Many of the programs and policies of the “New Deal”, implemented by Roosevelt, did have an impact in bringing some relief to the American people, as they did…

Steinbeck full name was John Ernst Steinbeck Jr, he was a male born in Salinas California on February 27, 1902 who died at age 66 on December 20, 1968 in New York City, New York. Steinbeck came from a Christian background and did believe in God and in the bible as well. His religious views and believes do shape his novel and we can see this through Casey who was a preacher and also used to deliver sermons at one point, yet he changes and decides to leave that life style behind and “explores”…

Migrant Mother: Dorothea Lange The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s left many migrant families destitute as they struggled to survive through a period of economic depression in the United States. Dorothea Lange captured the plight of one of these families in the photograph, titled Migrant Mother. While working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Lange took six photos, but this one in particular became the most popular image from the series. According to Dubois, the purpose originally for the…

Esperanza’s father. Who felt that his wealth still represented the social unfairness. Perhaps some of that still was in Esperanza and her views on the “river” between her and her friend Miguel. This all correlates with the Dust Bowl going on while Esperanza is in California. The Dust Bowl plays a large part with Esperanza’s Mama getting very sick and not being able to stop coughing. Causing her to get a bad case of “Valley…

read this novel for the first time, was that it is an American classic. This literature allows me to understand the point of view of the society that experienced the Great Depression during the 1920’s, particularly located in what was then “the dust bowl.” The Grapes of Wrath enables the reader to experience…