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Historical background to John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men.
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- 1. John Steinbeck “To understand America, one has to read Steinbeck”
- 2. The Great Depression 1929 - Stock Markets on Wall Street Crash 1930 - The Great Depression Factories closed & businesses went broke Millions of people found themselves unemployed. Farmers lost their land
- 4. The prosperous Southern Plains • 1900-1930 • Adequate rainfall • Bountiful crops • Farmers paid record prices
- 5. The Dustbowl
- 21. — John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 “And then the dispossessed were drawn west — from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless — restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do — to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut — anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land.”