Oklahoma Child Wandering in Dust Storm

                                                             A Little About the 30's
           The 1930's as a whole, were definetly the worst time to live in American history. Only to add to the to the crippling effects of the Depression, the Dust Bowl hit the more agricultureral part of the U.S. The Dust Bowl made it impossilbe to grow anything in the once nourished soil, now piles of dust. It hit very hard to the farmers once suceeding at making a living along with their families. The once beautiful land that was plowed for miles and miles, now resembled a poor and depressing falt ground surrounded by heavy dust that carried disturction and disease in it's path. The Dust Bowl brought drought and "blizzards" of dark and harsh dust that became part of everyday life for farmers and made it increasingly difficult to farm and live. Forced to leave this dead area many farmers made their way to California. In relation to The Grapes of Wrath, the hitchhiker we meet in the second chapter is trying to make his way home after some tragic events, but as many of the farmers did when the storms hit was make their way out and try to fnd a new home that promised safer conditions. Relating to the first chapter, filled with dust and dirt, the people affected by the Dust Bowl, only knew thier surroundings, which were literally dust and dirt. In the midst of the Dust Bowl, what was once beautiful scnerey was niw dark and sad dust.                                                    


Sources:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/hard-times/ok_old_small.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl