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Life Lessons From
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posted Oct 23, 2017, 3:55 AM by Richard
Ohlhaber [ updated Oct 23, 2017, 3:55 AM
]
American author John Steinbeck is
best known for his works set during
the Great Depression, with a laser-
sharp focus on migrant workers and
their plight. It was a highly stressful
and challenging time, and readers can
learn a lesson or two on life and
survival from Steinbeck’s ction.
Here’s the take of The Culture Trip on
the matter.
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The Great Depression is a whole
period of decline and want, beginning
in August 1929 with rapid economic
decline and the stock market crash
that followed in October. People lost
homes and jobs, many businesses
closed down and saw crashing pro ts,
and the Midwest saw a terrible
drought that made things worse.
Dislocation
Steinbeck’s celebrated novels The
Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men
reference the “Dust Bowl,” referring to
the time and place where drought and
over-farming wrought havoc on the
Midwest. It’s a harsh taste of
displacement from natural disaster
and lands and homes getting
repossessed by bank. People do
everything necessary to survive, and
it’s a show of strength and the spirit of
constantly trying to make it.
Clash of cultures
Migrant workers moving to California
realize things aren’t easier, as they
were deemed outsiders and fear of
the unknown took over. It’s stress at
its highest level, with weariness taking
over people due to their dire
circumstances.
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Amid people’s struggle, Steinbeck’s
works paint a picture of pro t-hungry
nancial institutions that are ready to
pounce on the poor and
disenfranchised for the next big kill.
Life is simply hard
Broken lives, broken souls: Steinbeck’s
works illustrate how appalling human
conditions can get, with the constant
need to get some amount of hope and
dignity back.
Richard Ohlhaber grew up in Chicago
but now lives in Texas. His all-time
favorite author is John Steinbeck. Learn
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