Category Archives: Uncategorized

One night I left my copy of The Grapes of Wrath at home. Not wanting to fall behind in the reading, I scoured the internet for a pdf copy. Luckily, quite a few were publicly available, including one with the cover above. Immediately, I was intrigued. The cover appealed to me in a way thatContinue reading “Short Blog- Grapes of Wrath Cover Analysis”

As I was reading The Day of the Locust, I wanted to know more about Hollywood and how it survived the Great Depression. What I found shocked me and proved to me that film is a universal art form that nearly everyone can participate in today and apparently in the past. On average, 60-80 millionContinue reading “Hollywood in the Great Depression”

Due to the disturbing ending of farewell to arms I came to the realization that this book was full of traumatic events that shaped who Patrick Henry was. While reading this book, I personally felt that Patrick Henry did not change to the extent that the readers would have expected. I had always felt Henry’sContinue reading “Short Blog- Farewell To Arms”

This book was extremely interesting and I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I really resonated with the fact that the family survived together through hope and determination to stay in contact. During the discussion it really stood out to me how much the characters developed throughout the novel. I was especiallyContinue reading “Short Blog- Grapes of Wrath”

If you think everyone works in Silicon Valley in the 1930s, that’s absolutely incorrect. People underwent tremendous pain under the Dust Bowl. In the book The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck closely depicted the scene of California farm workers as a part of the immigrant family. In Chapter 17 and 19, the quote of “They wereContinue reading “Short Blog #2”

I thought Hoovervilles were an interesting thing that happened during the Great Depression. I like the humor in naming them after President Hoover who is seemingly responsible for getting these families into this sticky situation. It’s cool how each Hooverville was its own community. Each Hooverville would have its own set of unwritten rules thatContinue reading “Short Blog – 1”

In John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, the women do not take on a role that they normally would in the time period. During this time period, women were supposed to be the traditional house wife. The text makes it apparent that traditionally the husband was the head of the family and had a majorityContinue reading “Traditional Roles Reversed”

Something that stood out to me throughout the book “Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck is how similar the Okies are treated in comparison to African Americans at the time. There are so many similarities that stand out to me between them- how the Okies pick cotton as slaves used to do, how the threatContinue reading “How It Feels To Be an Okie”

As our class is reading The Grapes of Wrath, I wanted to learn more about the Dust Bowl and what it actually was. I knew very little about it before hand; I knew that it was dry, people moved and that people suffered but what I really wanted to know was that were there reallyContinue reading “The Dust Bowl: What Happened?”