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Context of John Steinbeck?
American
author, born
1902.
Born into a
wealthy family,
though worked teenage summers as
ranch
hand in
Spreckels Sugar
Ranch.
Loved nature in
Santa Lucia
range and the
Gabilan Mountains.
Inspired by
Lost
Paradise
,
Biblical
stories
,
Arthurian
legends.
Racism context?
Post
1876
,
Jim Crow Laws
still in
effect.
Lynching
of black people for
small
crimes.
Segregation
in
public
services.
Context of women?
During WW1, women filled up
male jobs.
Post-Great Depression, women's jobs were
first
to go due to male
insecurity
+
patriachy.
Women with
little
job opportunity, forced to be
housewives
for
financial
security.
What was the American dream?
Freedoms
,
prosperities
,
social mobility
and
success
could be achieved by
hardwork.
Stemmed
from America being
unclaimed
land pre
1900s.
What was the Great Depression?
Wall Street Crash
in
1929
, caused many banks to go
bankrupt
due to stock value
decrease.
Due to bankruptcy, America suffered
unemployment
,
homelessness
, ect...
What was Golden California?
Severe
dust storms
and
over-farming
had
dried
up farmland.
This
damaged
the agriculture industry throughout in
1930s
America.
Only California remained
unaffected
, workers would
migrate
there
alone
to get
little
pay.