Dust explosion

Loneliness is a haunting feeling. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie work on a ranch to make money in order to accomplish their dream of buying their own land. On the ranch they encounter people going through their own struggles. They include Candy and Crooks into their dream after meeting them. There is a recurring theme of loneliness in the book. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck loneliness affected most of the characters presenting itself in different ways. Curley’s…

A common question answered by literature throughout history has been of the basic goodness or immorality of humanity. John Steinbeck demonstrates the cruelness of humankind in his novella, Of Mice and Men, through the story of two migrant farmers, George and Lennie, who travel with one another looking for work in an apathetic world. Throughout their travels, they come across many people who all share the common feeling of loneliness that was prevalent in 1930s America. Their experiences on a…

“The Chrysanthemums”, a short story by John Steinbeck depicts the typical life of people living in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Steinbeck focuses on Henry Allen and his wife Elisa Allen, who live on a small ranch in The Salinas Valley, California. It starts with Elisa doing what she loves to do, work on her flower garden, although she wishes Henry would care more about her talent of gardening. Even though Henry did end up complimenting her flowers she was not satisfied because she knew it was…

States has ever been through occurred, the “Dust Bowl.” This disaster turned most of the fields into dust and led many Americans to a life of poverty. Dorothea Lange took many photographs of the devastation for the federal government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA). Most people recognize Lange’s photo the “Migrant Mother,” but few know that this photo is in a sequence of photographs. Lange took 6 pictures of one family that was strugling during the “Dust Bowl.” These pictures are known as…

Mother Teresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” A recurring presence in Of Mice and Men, loneliness is an inevitable suffering all characters in the novella experience, some more than others. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck successfully portrays the most terrible poverty Mother Teresa describes in the era of the Great Depression among farm workers. George Milton, the protagonist, is a short, intelligent man who takes care of his…

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is set in Northern California during the Great Depression, around 1930’s. The main characters, George and Lennie, illustrate the American struggles throughout the great Depression, financially, socially but mostly discrimination. While focusing on the struggles of these times, the theme of this book consists from an exaggeration of total inequality of power between race, with Crooks being segregated and being treated differently because of his skin color, age,…

There are some in this world who are considered outcasts, the wallflowers of society, to whom we neglect, vilify and abuse. And just as the poor mouse portrayed in the poem ‘To a Mouse,’ written by Robert Burns, was bothered by the outside world, the character Lennie, from the book ‘Of Mice and Men,” was also regarded with similar contempt and scorn, from those of society. In the poem ‘To a Mouse,’ the mouse represents Lennie from the book “Of Mice and Men.” As was the narrator, or speaker in…

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…

windows. Wildlife is scrambling to run away and the disaster covers the house in dirt. The daughter says she can taste and feel the dirt in her mouth and teeth despite the wet towel over her face while awaiting the storm to end. This disaster is called a Dust Storm, In the 1930’s many midwestern states had hundreds of these storms which were the worst in the history of America. They destroyed land, economy and lives. These problems are what caused families to migrate west to seek refuge from the…

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…