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- 1021: The Grapes of Wrath: No One Man, But One Common Soul
- ... their own personal experiences. John Steinbeck is no exception to this. When traveling through his native Californian in the mid-1930s, Steinbeck witnessed people living in appalling conditions of extreme poverty due to the Great Depression and the agricultural disaster known as the Dust Bowl. He noticed that these people received no aid whatsoever from neither the state of California nor the federal government. The rage he experienced from seeing such ...
- 1022: Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man"
- ... despair causes him to lose hope in repentance as he began "to sin mortally not once but many times and he knew that, while he stood on the edge of eternal damnation." This stage of depression continues as Stephen realizes he has become contaminated in every kind of sin, as he thinks over the sentence of Saint James, which says, "that he who offends against one commandment becomes guilty of all ...
- 1023: Summary of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" With Background About Steinbeck
- ... The Grapes of Wrath (1939) won the 1940 Pulitzer prize. The novel tells the story of the Joads, a poor Oklahoma farming family, who migrated to California in search of better life during the Great Depression in the 1930's. Steinbeck adequately demonstrated how the struggles of a family reflected the hardship of the entire nation. Through the labor the organizer, Jim Casy, taught the Joads that the poor must work ...
- 1024: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... to Buffalo, New York (190). Almost as soon as the couple moved in they experienced themselves some problems. Olivia's father passed away leav'in her grief stricken. Olivia got herself into a state of depression, mak'in her weak and confined her to her bed. In November the couple had a premature baby boy named Langdon. But instead of bring'in the family joy it worsened them. Because the baby ...
- 1025: A Review of "To Build A Fire"
- ... to his readers the impact the setting has on the lives of the characters. The gloominess of the setting instills feelings in the man and the dog, of a constant battle with this world of depression they are in. Being given no sense of imagination, the man is only gifted with his practical knowledge. He therefore is shown to lack the experience and thought to adapt to the conditions encompassing him ...
- 1026: Nicholas Romanov
- ... the moral rightness of the autocracy and a religious faith that he was in Gods hands and God inspired all his actions . In the early years of the twentieth century the Russian economy entered a depression, this aroused extensive urban and rural unrest, partly due to this unrest the government led Russia into a war with Japan . The feat of Russian forces led to the onset of revolutionary events which reached ...
- 1027: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- ... to his parents' inevitable wrath. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression, impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his eventual nervous collapse. However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around Holden as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman ...
- 1028: Stephen Coonts' "Flight of the Intruder": Summary
- ... the first few pages Jake's best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese soldier's rifle. In this mission their target was a "suspected truck park." Jake goes into despondency (depression, despair) for a days and tries to convince his squadron leader that the targets are worthless, that thousand of Americans have died en route and returning from these. The leader replies that he is not ...
- 1029: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... work. By publishing these experiences and trials of the migrants he achieved an effect that won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. The writing of The Grapes of Wrath coincided with the Great Depression. This time of hardship and struggle for the rest of America gave Steinbeck inspiration for his work. Other peoples' stories of everyday life became issues for Steinbeck. His writings spoke out against those who kept ...
- 1030: Morrison's Beloved: A Review
- ... Her faith in God and self makes her the prominent legacy. As she rose above slavery so have other individual rose above persecution and hardship across the years. For instance, World Wars, Holocaust, and the depression to name a few. Morrison throughout Beloved offers realism of the times and consequences that occurred with the slaves. Morrison paints a picture post -Civil War life that leaves many black people lost in America ...
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