A Comparison of Migrant Workers in The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and

Migrant Workers in The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and hands John Steinbeck wrote about what surrounded him. At the time he was writing, the nineteen-thirties, a great depression was plaguing the fall in States. many a(prenominal) people were out of work. Many farmers were losing their farms and homes. An extreme drought had also wrecked the farms of the Midwest and made them into what is in a flash referred to as the dust bowl. It was a terrible time to be poor, and most were. People died of malnutrition every day. In California, where Steinbeck resided, unsettled workers dominated the workforce. Thousands traveled from all around to pick fruit in the farms of the Salinas Valley for lilliputian wages. Thousands more could not find suitable Many people mull why the depression happened. Speculation in the stock market was wholeness reason. The dust bowl also multiplied the depressions effects. The depression did happen to accord with another event though. It ha ppened soon after the last frontier vanished from the United States. There was no longer free land for the taking. The long held American inhalation was no longer simple and cheap to achieve. Many Americans scarce wanted their own plot to take and set up their lives, exactly the depression made this an impossibility. Steinbeck wrote about this class of people. Throughout his writing he uses many minor themes and biblical references to get his point across, but the present theme is the story of the poor, depression era migrant worker merely trying to retain dignity, achieve the ever important American dream of owning their own plot of land, and end the depravity that is the life of a migrant worker. Characters in Steinbecks writing always have dreams. Many of the cha... ...h-Allusions. 2001 3pp. Online. 22 treat 2003. www.123helpme/2690.html Groene, Horst. The Dispossessed Farmer. Bloom 23-24.Of Mice and Men-Lonely Characters. 2001 3pp. Online. 22 March 2003. www .essay bank.co.uk/free_coursework/1148.html Of Mice and Men and Migrant Workers. 2001 3pp. Online. 22 March 2003. www.123helpme/1105.html Parini, Jay. The Masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath. 2002 3pp. Online. 6 March 2003. http//web4.infotrac.galegroup.com/81433&dyn=9tar_fmt?sw_aep=unio58461 Railton, Stephen. The Joads and Their Oppressors. Bloom 31. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. raw(a) York, NY Penguin Books, 2002. -. Of Mice and Men. New York, NY Penguin Books, 2002. Visser, Nicholas. Audience and Closure in The Grapes of Wrath. 1994 13pp. Online. http//web4.infotrac.galegroup.com/0136&dyn=45tar_fmt?sw_aep=unio58461