History & Background Information.  1902 - 1968  Place of Birth: Salinas, California  Tortilla Flat (1935)  Of Mice and Men (1937)  The Grapes of.

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History & Background Information

  Place of Birth: Salinas, California  Tortilla Flat (1935)  Of Mice and Men (1937)  The Grapes of Wrath (1939)  Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962

 John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie were perhaps the two most famous chroniclers of the Great Depression.  Steinbeck wrote a trilogy of novels portraying the struggle of migrant workers in California is the most enduring literary chronicle of the Great Depression.  Woody Guthrie (1912–1967  Leading American songwriter of the late 1930s and 1940s  Released the Dust Bowl Ballads in 1940  inspired by the drought-ravaged region of the American West that came to be known as the “Dust Bowl” in the early 1930s.

 Migration - movement of people from place to place for permanent settlement  Drought in the plains forced owners off farms  Steinbeck’s novels depict this lifestyle

 Lennie, one of the main characters in OMM has a disability.  What would life (typically) have been like for someone with a disability during this time?  What terminology is most appropriate and inclusive here?

 Factories and Mills closed  Manufacturing cut in half  Unemployment rose from 3.2 % to 24.9%  Banks ran out of money  Mortgages foreclosed  Homelessness; poverty  “Riches to Rags” For Sale

 Malnutrition  Doubt  Most severe for men, women’s jobs actually rose  Children more self-reliant  Whites took-over jobs held by minorities

 Hoover: self-reliance, restore confidence, grew unpopular as conditions worsened  Roosevelt elected in 1932  “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”  New Deal, WWII eventually helped economy rebound

 unemployment still 15%  Outbreak of WWII - expansion of national defense, stimulating jobs and growth  Federal Government expanded its role in social and economic areas

 How is this storyline reflected in today’s society?  What parallels or struggles do you see people dealing with that they dealt with during the Great Depression?