People forcibly evicted from their homes, drought, and starvation. People are going on a trip to salvation, California, where they hope to find jobs only to not find one. Once again they are faces with cruelty, the police treat them like garbage and they receive no respect. Time and time again this family is faced with cruelty. The symbolism and conflict in this book reveals to us the themes.
My Antonia In the novel My Antonia, the author, Willa Cather, uses “the road” as a symbol to contrast the successful American dreams of Jim and Antonia with the unsuccessful dream of Mr. Shimerda ultimately showing that the American dream is not achievable by all. At the beginning of the novel, Jim came to Black Hawk as an orphan to live with his grandparents after the recent death of his parents. After getting off the train, Jim must take a long caravan ride through the dark open plains to reach his grandparents house. As Jim looked at the openness of the land, Jim realized the road symbolized the beginning of his new journey, “I had left their spirits behind me. The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.” (8) Jim understands that there is no way to get his
He is always looking back to the World War II, where he was before with his uncle Rocky. He is a very bad shape mentally after the war and he is trying to find a way to heal himself. But the memories overtake him and cause him distress. He lives on a farm alone and only few of his animals are alive because a terrible drought has come over the land. What is important?
Review In the midst of the Great Depression, Tom Joad returns home to Oklahoma to see his family after four years of being in prison. Upon his arrival, Tom runs into an old friend by the name of Jim Casy who used to be a preacher, but had found a new meaning to life. The two travel together to the Joads’s house only to realize that there was nobody there. The Joads, just like many other families during the Dust Bowl, had been forced off of their farms. When Tom and Casy found the Joads, they were packing up their belongings to head out west.
The storms and floods had taken all the good soil in the 1930s. People survived off of beans, rice, corn, and milk. Many slaughtered the cattle for meat because there was no market. All around the world people were living in horrible living conditions and there were not many jobs for those in need. Over 25% of people were unemployed and houses were being foreclosed
Many of the sailors who returned home from the war, took their families elsewhere or moved up north to Los Angeles or San Francisco. As the servicemen began to leave, business along Hillcrest’s tree-lined streets began to suffer. The once blossoming cafes and sidewalk shops began to close due to a lack of sales, and the mills closed down completely. Since those same mills relied so heavily on the local community, there was no sense in trying to stay open without the employees or customers to support it. After the town began to close down after the war, people seemed to just scatter in the wind.
Of Mice and Men Essay Plan Intro • In 1930’s American people had no work • Time of the great depression , Poverty and hardship • millions of people unemployed = looking for any work available - "Of Mice of Men," = set in this period • about two ranch workers Lennie and George who are migrant workers. • Migrant workers moved from place to place to find work • No proper relationship with others - loneliness is a theme in this novel • All the people on the ranch are lonely for different reasons • reflective of the time period in which the novel was written • shows the harsh reality of their lives. • book is set The American Dream • Each individual had their own interpretation of their ideal situation for life Section 1 • Chapter 2 begins with the introduction of a new setting •
At first his father would threaten him and then his father resorted to beatings. This attitude of his father’s served to drive Francis away from him and enforce his beliefs in God and his purpose in this life. During a huge turning point in Francis’ life, and in the midst of legal proceedings before the Bishop of Assisi, Francis renounced his father and laid aside even the garments he had received from him in front of the entire crowd. For the next couple of months Francis lived as a beggar in the region of Assisi. He wandered the countryside around his home-town alone for two years.
We have been travelling in this crowded cattle wagon for two days now. The thirst and the heat were become intolerable. Lying down is not an option, nor is sitting down. My legs have lost all feeling and they no longer feel attached to my body. There has been little food to go around for the eighty people who are piled in the wagon, meaning that we can never satisfy our hunger.
Moving to the small town of Pleasantville was definitely a struggle, especially because the kids of Northview High were “unfriendable.” My Papa’s AA meetings weren’t assisting with the living conditions at home: I still returned most nights to the sight of him passed out in a puddle of his own vomit. Days were long and nights were even longer; not to mention I never really felt my mother’s warm touch. She left us before I developed the ability to make memories so it’s just been us guys. I guess I seem to have simply disregarded all of it after so many years of disappointment. The hardships in my life were most of what shaped me into what I became that day.