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Dorothea Lange: Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California, 1936. Spirn contends that "Lange's photos and her field notes gave the crude material to another kind of government report: papers containing photos with transcribed inscriptions, numerous with citations from the general population she captured." The reports included an intense impact inside SERA and in the end at the national level, as well. Rexford Tugwell, chief of the…

The book, The Harvest Gypsies, is primarily a collection of news articles that John Steinbeck had written originally for The San Francisco News. In the collection, he illuminates the hardship that migrant workers experienced in the time of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Steinbeck does this excellently through his usage of vivid imagery and jarring stories of family’s struggling to survive. In the opening chapter, Steinbeck holds migrant workers in high regard even going as far as saying…

John Steinbeck is a world renowned author in America. He has written great novels such as: Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. In both novels, Steinbeck references The Great Depression. Steinbeck uses setting, tone, and characterization to reveal the plight of the Great Depression in these classic novels. First, Steinbeck uses California as the setting of The Grapes of Wrath. California is an Eden of sorts. The Joad family wants to live in this beautiful place. “we all live east of Eden ..…

Jim Casy who was a preacher, met Tom on his way back from McAlester and since then he became a member of the Joads. He asked the Joads if he can ride along with them to California for a new life. The Joads agreed to let him ride along with them to California. Over the trip Casy helped the Joads with anything he could such as helping with off loading or loading the truck, praying, and protecting the family. When the Joads arrived to California they needed a place to stay. A large, crowded,…

Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur, a Frenchman living in America, wrote many letters to Europeans telling them of the great opportunities for immigrants to America and its generous, welcoming, paternal government. However, a study of the farm workers' experiences in America does not always paint a rosy picture. In particular, John Steinbeck and Cesar Chavez portrayed the dire circumstances of farm workers during the Great Depression (1930's) and the 1960's. To begin, Crevecoeur states in his…

Horses come and go but family is always there. In the book The Red Pony written by John Steinbeck a young boy named Jody learns about the importance of animals and family. John Steinbeck writes about the countryside and uses vivid detail to describe where he grew up. Steinbeck is a well known author with many popular novels including The Red Pony. In this book Steinbeck successfully shows the many lessons a young boy has to learn to be able to grow into a man. In the book The Red Pony there…

The novel The Grapes Of Wrath begins with solidarity between farmers, all of whom are interconnected through the land they till. This unity ends up transcending the boundaries of both physical and communal planes, as the farmers’ identities turn to those of migrants’. The removal of the farmers’ security, coupled with a communal sense of ostracization from society, created an identity of migrants that was both unique and similar to the community that was created by the farmers prior to the Great…

The play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose should be read in schools. The play takes place during the 1950s, and is about a jury comprised of white males. In the trial, the defendant, a teenage boy, is on trial for murdering his father after he claims his father abused him. Like everyone, all the jurors have some prejudices about the defendant and opinions of the case before they begin to deliberate. While these twelve men try to reach a unanimous decision, some jurors are unwilling to change…

Correlation between the Okies and Mexican Immigrants The novel The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, tells the story of a family journeying to California with the goal of starting a new life. On the way, they experience turmoil and hardships. This novel takes place in the 1930’s, the same time the great depression and the dust bowl were occurring. These two events affected the United States dramatically, and aspects of this can be seen throughout the novel. Steinbeck added what seemed like…

“Fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe” (151). Thickening the division between the wealthy and wrathful, the Great depression stirred the cauldron of anger. Written to encompass the infuriation of the impoverished, the Grapes of Wrath visualizes the cruel consequences of selfishness, greed, and the inhumane treatment of the refugees. Steinbeck successfully creates…