1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR
DEAD END IN NORVELT BY: JACK
GANTOS
By: Jennifer McCain and Scott Edwards

2. INTRO TO DEAD END IN NORVELT
Setting: Small Town ,Norvelt, early
1960s
Modeled after the author’s real
experiences
1960s- culturally and historically
important
Newbery Honor winner
 National Book Award Finalist

3. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

4. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
 Fully Aided in FDR’s “New Deal” policy
 She believed in deemphasizing class
differences
 Mothers should behave out of altruism
 Eleanor helped publicize her husband’s
ideas
 Good Consumption done in name of
family

5. ROOSEVELT CONTINUED
 Was incredibly active in women’s rights
 Understood the problem of postwar employment
 Solve by developing third world nations
 In favor of women in workforce
 World markets will keep people employed
 Sexes must solve problems together

6. THE COLD WAR
Period between 1945 and about 1990
Heightened sense of alert in U.S.
Our Major Enemy was the USSR
The two countries built Nuclear
Arsenals
This practice is called brinkmanship

7. IMMEDIATE DANGER
 Cuban Crisis happened in October 62
 Tensions were building during the summer
 Cuban Missiles would make war imminent
 Kennedy called Cuban Blockade a Quarantine
 Soviets turned the ships around

8. HELLS ANGELS
 Motorcycle club that still exists today
 They have an internal set of rules
 They Despise the security most Americans strive for
 Angles branded new breed of outlaw
 Hung out in bars for days

9. ANGELS CONT.
They Value their freedom over
everything
Lifestyle unfathomable people in
1960’s
Rode Harley Davidson’s exclusively
FBI Says angels involved in drugs
Prone to acts of extreme violence

10. THE BEATLES
 Arguably the biggest rock group ever.
 Crossed over during setting of novel.
 Many parents were fearful of influence
 Still listened to widely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuMwfUqJJM

11. THE BEATLES