The grapes of wrath

1. 2 Steinbeck and the Great Depression.
It is well known fact that, every period has its own role of the history of counties and nationals. Therefore , history of The USA faced The Great Depression from 1929 to 1941, and it was very serious economic crisis that the American nation had ever faced . Talented writers created a vast array of books and works. Most of them by following their own interests and passions, wrote without much consideration to the conditions surrounding them in the 1930s. Others created books that not be conceal much about American people caught in the economic devastation of the Depression; these socially aware books are popular with proletarian that is working-class, literature. Authors of such literature looked with feeling of annoying on the wealth that a few Americans had collected amount of it at the expense of the majority of the people. The books that were written by them about themes that supported working-class individuals and promoted the theory of economic accompany rather than contest. Proletarians the class of workers who own no property and work for wages, especially in factories, building things became a hallmark that is an idea, method, or quality that is typical of a particular person of Depression-era literature.
Several proletarian writers of the 1930s gained fame, including John Dos Passos lived during the 1896 1970 , James T. Farrell (1904 1979), Erskine Caldwell (1903 1987), Richard Wright (1908 1960), and as well as ,John Steinbeck (1902 1968). Dos Passos wrote U.S.A., three novels that tells the story of America's materialistic increase from the 1890s to the beginning Depression years. Farrell also wrote a trilogy that is the three novels focusing on a life and world of young working-class Irish American called Studs Lonigan , who lives under bad conditions in Chicago. Caldwell's Tobacco Road usually gives a description to the poverty of a Southern landlord farming family whose lives become different as the Depression decades in 1932. The story was played on the stage as a play that ran on Broadway in New York City for years. In 1933 Caldwell published his "God's Little Acre" , which also tells the story about one deprived family. Together with photographer Margaret Bourke-White who lived from 1906 to 1971, Caldwell presented his work "You Have Seen Their Faces" written in 1937 that is a true story of rural improvised in the South. Richard Wright was a black writer so he always wrote about the issues and troubles of black Americans in a white society. He created a collection of four short stories, such as "Uncle Tom's Children" written in 1938 a and "Native Son" was his first novel that appeared in 1940. He also created nonfiction works that include "Twelve Million Black Voices" finished in 1941. John Steinbeck created a number of decidedly proletarian novels in the 1930s. Following chapter includes an summarize of Steinbeck's most famous novels," The Grapes of Wrath" , published in 1939. It is one of the example of good proletarian literature and " The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story about the Joads, who lives in an Oklahoma with her family whose farm is destroyed by a severe drought. .it is the fact that , beginning in late 1931, a real drought was able to turn much of the Great Plains into a dust-covered wasteland that was impossible to farm to survive
Both " Of Mice and Men" ⁵ and "The Grapes of Wrath" are most important part of Steinbeck's works and they reference the Dust Bowl, it is a natural disaster and that name given during time and area where drought and over-farming could not survive on the land of the Midwest. Decades of drought together with increased farming caused the land in the area Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, in particular to destroy. Sometimes so great dust storms occurred, endangering the area even more and forcing people away from lands to survive. In addition to this natural disaster, combined with the banks bailiff land and homes, left people with no choice but to leave and find opportunities elsewhere to live.
By pay attention on migrant workers, Steinbeck, through his books and articles, opened that people did whatever they had to do in order to survive during that times. Without anything left, people had not any cause to stay where they were and they have to leave. They wanted to find foot for their families and keep them together, so they packed what little they had and left in search of greener land and fields that can give new opportunity. Many of them headed west without any essential reason ,to California, where they thought things would be better than that time. While that really was not a opportunity to choose, they really had no choice so they needed to try to survive.
Once migrant workers find the California, they saw and realized that things were not going to be any easier than like other places. There, they were seen as new comers and called as Okies,⁶ it did not matter they were from Oklahoma or not. Not only were those people who had more fortunate were under the suspicious of them, but then found the other field workers who were there before them. People were terrifying. All they knew that things were bad, and they did not know what was going to happen after then. They were afraid of the unknown place and unknown future .People did not pay attention to of each other and the levels of stress were extremely high.
Most of the migrants begun to leave toward Central and Southern California, where the main agricultural parts of the USA. John Steinbeck himself lived in Salinas was the witness that ,an area to which many people moved, looking for a better life. In the middle 1930s, he began writing articles for the San Francisco News called Harvest Gypsies, from which "The Grapes of Wrath" was created. Steinbeck visited these migration camps who came another place to find new and better life and saw the terrible conditions in which the workers lived and worked. He mentioned that they have no homes, no bed and no equipment. If they did have houses, they was made of corrugated paper with a dirt floor, and there was no toilet. Some peoples homes were made of a few branches. In the articles, Steinbeck even writes that the official agreements from a long distance , looked like a city dump.
In spite of the living conditions were very bad enough, the migrant workers had to deal with so much more during that time. They did not have money for soap, because any amount of money they did have and often times they did not went toward food. At that time babies were stillborn, or if they were born alive, they could only live in a week. Whereas , most of the people were alive, they were not t living; their souls were already broken. When the federal government started its work and when it came to the realization that the migrant workers were living in terrible conditions. After that ,they began to build camps for themselves with simple living quarters, bathrooms, toilets, and another places that started to give them to find lost all hope some of their behavior begin to back.