When John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath the United States was amidst the Great Depression. Life was hard for the average American during the 1930s. The Depression was the worst and longest period of high unemployment and low business activity in modern times. An ecological terror, known as the Dust Bowl, further complicated matters for small farmers. These two phenomena allowed Steinbeck to create his best selling and most influential book, The Grapes of Wrath. To appeal to these victims of the Depression, Steinbeck contained highly socialistic characters and themes that are frequently revealed throughout the novel. To illustrate these principles, it is clear that the Bible is the novelist's main point of reference. Using his pen, he manipulated the social and economic problems of the 1930s to convert his readers to socialism and Christianity. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is not merely a novel concerning the Great Depression and the evils of capitalism, but rather propaganda for the Christian religion.
In his novel, Steinbeck records the plight of sufferers of the Great Depression. The Depression began in October 1929, when stock values in the United States dropped rapidly. The downward spiraling economy soon had its effect on the farmer. Farmer's did not even prosper during the "Roaring Twenties," and thus suffered a great deal more than their urban counterparts. As a result, some farmers, lost so much money that they could not pay the mortgage on their farm. These farmers were forced to either rent their land or move, as the Joads do in Grapes. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. As if the plunging economy was not enough, farmers of the Midwest and southwest were hit with a serious drought coined the Dust Bowl by a reporter in 1935.
Most of the key events happen in Cold Mountain. Inman tries to go back to Cold Mountain because Ada's home is near Cold Mountain. When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada's home. The plot of Cold Mountain is to reunite Inman and Ada. ... On his way to Cold Mountain Inman faces many challenges. ...
Anyways, after Inman recovers he decides to run like a girl back to Ada (Nicole Kidman) who in the mean time is living with a woman named Ruby (Renee Zellweger) on a farm in the Town of Cold Mountain. ... When Inman decides to journey back to Cold Mountain as he encounters slaves, bounty hunters, soldiers, witches, unexpected friends and dangerous enemies at every turn. ... Once Inman returns to Cold Mountain, Ruby gets a little jealous of Ada because Inman came back for her. ... As you know the first scene shows Inman in the war, after that it goes back to Cold Mountain where Ada rolls i...
Ada, will alter her newly settled life at Cold Mountain to learn survival, no amount of formal teaching received in the past could benefit her in this struggle. ... Distraught by his conflicting emotions, Inman figures Cold Mountain "a place where all his scattered forces might gather" (23). ... Inman would pass through this window one last time and start his quest towards Cold Mountain. ... The quest for knowledge concerning their relationship aids Inman in enduring his travels towards Cold Mountain. ... The years of separation have been long, but the couple yearns for the other and...
My scout troop and I went on a camping trip to El Capitan Mountain in New Mexico. As we neared the jutting backbone of southern New Mexico, I saw a dark green carpet of dense treetops spilling down the side of the mountain. ... This softly flowing spring had cold, clean water so crystalline to pass it up would be a crime. ...
9/26/03 Frazier's References to Emersonian Philosophy in Chapter 12 of Cold Mountain In chapter 12 of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, entitled freewill savages, Frazier portrays two of the main characters, Ruby and Stobrod, with Emersonian ideals in mind. ... Ada tells Ruby that she wants to learn more about the land and Cold Mountain. ...
They say home is where the heart is, so I guess my home is the mountains; the Smokey mountains; to be more exact. ... A torrential downpour combined with wind made me amazingly wet, and I mean I was literally waterlogged, and dangerously cold. ... The rain does not stop because you are cold and muddy. ... My skin took it all in, my soul oozed contentment, and the other mountains in front of me seemed to be calling. ... In those mountains I experienced many toils, but also many joys. ...
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. ... The whole mountain range originated when the Eurasian continental plate clashed with the Indian subcontinental plate around 30 to 50 million years ago. The mountain is covered with glaciers that fall from the main peak and its nearby smaller peaks. ... Naturally, the climate at Mount Everest is fanatically cold. ... From June through September, the mountain lies in the deadly way of the Indian monsoons in which time violent snowstorms are common. ...
People think that it requires the ultimate ski knowledge that only those who were born on the mountain have. ... Every mountain climb with three ski lifts in Bansko is an adventure. ... Then if skier goes sweaty in the cold, there is a chance for him to catch a cold. ... The skier can hear from his host that nobody knows the whims of the mountain, and every mountain and every track has its own story. If a skier knows how to listen to the stories about skiing, the mountain will be his friend....
He looked up to the great mother; she was a blank cold, as she was most days. ... He saw his final challenge loom from the distance, a huge mountain range leapt from the ice, as some epic killer whale. ... The mountains were vast, looming higher than a bird could fly. ... It was so cold that if he gave up now, he would freeze to death before morning. Here on the baron south side of the mountain, nothing grew, so he could not make a fire. ...
