Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men, is a novel recounting the events and conflicts migrant workers confronted during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. The story is about two migrant workers and the events that occur while the two are working on a ranch in Cali...
The date is April 14, 1934. I went outside my house to check on the horses, crops, and the overall farm. Our horses were gettin' thinner and so was Pa and I's wages. The food was scarce and all our crops were wilted. Ma and Sister even had to sell their jewelry that had been in the family for ten ge...
Ma Joad plays a primary role in the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. In an effort to migrate to California, Ma struggles to keep the family together. Since the Joad family has been taken away from their home, Pa Joad lost all hope for the family. Evidently, Ma took over as a leader, ...
In the 1930s, America's economy fell by more than 52%. This downfall is widely known as the Great Depression. Thousands were suffering and had to make the best out of what they had. People of the Great Depression suffered because of the loss of jobs, stock market crash and debt. The novel, Cannery R...
It's the summer of 1932, and it's time to go to work. But unfortunately, there's no work to go to. It's been like this a couple of years now. There were problems with the economy before, but it all came crashing down (no pun intended) on October 29, 1929. Job was lost shortly thereafter, and th...
John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is a tragic and endearing story of the unconditional friendship between two virtually opposite men. The two main characters, Lennie Small and George Milton, are just a couple of hard working ranch hands trying to "make their stake" and achieve their drea...
Karl Marx introduced Marxism into the world because he believed that social standing was determined by money. Through creating such divisions as the upper, middle, and lower class, the theory of Marxism analyzes what ways capitalism can be used against the people. In the book The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, the main character, Tom Joad, struggles with being in the lower class because of the limitations set by the rich. As Karl Marx said in The Communist Manifesto, "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antago...
