In his early years of education, Steinbeck excelled greatly in literature. ... After high school, he continued on to study literature at Stanford University. ... First the massive stock market crash during 1920, which then lead to the second major event, The Great Depression. ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

With that, the anxiety was collectively heard and felt with its louder voice and remembered to define an era. ... The whole idea and feeling of uncertainty provoked a revolution in the world of art and literature as well. ... This new way of literature also changed the way screenplays were written, and movies and theatre evolved from that point. ... America's "age of anxiety" was more collectively felt after the Great Depression of 1929, which concluded a decade of partying in avoidance of the inability to deal with uncertainty. ... I couldn't tell whether America made the movemen...

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• Approx Pages: 5

Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. ... In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. ... A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the n...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42