Essays on Dust Bowl

AP United States History Syllabus Chambless This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and preparation for the AP Exam in May. An emphasis is placed on interpreting documents, mastering a significant body of factual information, and writing critical essays. Topics include life in colonial America, revolutionary ideology, constitutional development, the formation of political…

THE EXTENDED FAMILY: A SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND HOPE In his books Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck captured the reality of the struggles that struck mankind in different forms and in various levels as he had observed during his lifetime. Steinbeck observed mainly Californians and migrants who had suffered from…

This picture, by Arthur Rothstein, was taken in April of 1936 in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (Library of Congress, 2008). Rothstein took this photo while in Boise City, Oklahoma on an assignment for Roy Stryker, of the federal government’s Farm Security Administration, to document the severity of the storms and devastation they brought. About 14 miles…

haracters”And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then…

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is a novel depicting the Okies migration to California during the period in history known as The Dustbowl. In this novel Steinbeck attempts to display the tensions between the Okies and the Californians. This display can be closely compared to today’s tensions between citizens born in the US…

Steinback’s Social Commentary in The Grapes of Wrath Introduction: The Grapes of Wrath             The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was a critically acclaimed novel published in 1939 which chronicled the life and times of the Joad family who struggled through poverty-stricken America during the Depression era.  While the novel’s focal point was the…

The Route 66 was a highway in the United States route system which started at Chicago and passed through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, ending at Los Angeles. It was considered the mother road due to its definitive role as a highway used in historical events such as the great depression, the dust bowl,…

Many people lost their jobs during the Great Depression. This loss caused many people to move out west in search of jobs and greater economic stability. In The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family moved out west to California from Oklahoma. This is the most obvious comparison between The Grapes of Wrath and the Great…