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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath. By John Steinbeck Historical Context And Introduction. John Steinbeck. Steinbeck’s Vitals. 1902-1968, born in Salinas, California ·One of the “Big Four” of early 20 th Century American Authors-Steinbeck, Hemmingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald Nobel Prize in 1962

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The Grapes of Wrath

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  1. The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck Historical Context And Introduction

  2. John Steinbeck

  3. Steinbeck’s Vitals • 1902-1968, born in Salinas, California • ·One of the “Big Four” of early 20th Century American Authors-Steinbeck, Hemmingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald • Nobel Prize in 1962 • ·In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, Travels with Charley, Cannery Row (he considered East of Eden his best work) • Proletarian novel – one that documents the oppression of the • downtrodden. * (study for test) • Steinbeck Quotes • “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” • “In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.” • “The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

  4. Historical Context Black Sunday • Sunday April 14, 1935 - Storms • last until May. • -- Lack of crop rotation • -- Draught

  5. Black Sunday (4/14/35)

  6. Covers 100,000 acres in mid-southwest for 8 years

  7. Black Tuesday The Great Depression • Imbalancebetween rich and poor: 0.1 percent of society earning the same total income as 42 percent. • On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression, the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world. It spread from the United States to the rest of the world, lasting from 1929 until the early 1940s. -- 15 million unemployed (1/4 of the workforce) • Unemployment skyrocketed at an unprecedented rate: • in 1929: 3.2% • in 1930: 8.9% • in 1931: 16.3% • in 1932: 24.1% • in 1933: 24.9%

  8. 2.5 Million People Leave

  9. Many go to California

  10. Housing Conditions

  11. Homes were now brought with them.

  12. Hoovervilles

  13. Dorothea Lange’s Iconic Image: Migrant Mother

  14. Notes (continued) • Transcendentalism: literary movement that focuses on how the ordinary in life can lead to spiritual awakening.

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