The Dust Bowl & Its effects
By. Mauron Owens
November 1, 2012
The dust bowl effected many main lands like Kansas, Texas,
and Oklahoma. But according to http://www.ask.com/answers/94916541/where-did-the-dust-bowl-take-place
“The dust bowl took place in the American and
Canadian prairie lands from 1930 until roughly 1940. In America it was
restricted mostly to the great plains with Oklahoma being hit extremely hard.”
( ask.com). It connects to the story and
the author because he lived in those times and the destruction that the dust
bowl left houses and farm was devastating and people were forced to moved
around the country and get jobs on ranches.
And the characters in the book of mice and men are moving place to place
trying to make money and this was also in the times of the great depression
which also didn’t help people get jobs at the time. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
“Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, and hundreds of
thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families
(often known as "Okies",
since so many came from Oklahoma) migrated to California and other states,
where they found economic conditions little better during the Great Depression than
those they had left. Owning no land, many became migrant workers who traveled
from farm to farm to pick fruit and other crops at starvation wages. Author John Steinbeck later wrote
The Grapes of
Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about
such people” (Wikipedia).
