Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck. Specifically, it will focus upon how characters represent the various ideas held by capital and labor by the 1930's. "In Dubious Battle" is the story of poor field workers fighting a lost cause against prosperous o Continue Reading...
They work when they can picking crops, but agitators create a violent atmosphere, after wages are cut due to the overabundance of pickers. People are starving and the law is harsh with locked out strikers who fight with desperate workers who become Continue Reading...
And the costs...! Our meager savings, which would keep us for a couple of years in Mexico, " (Rouberol, Jean 2000)
So the influence of the McCarthy era and the black lists on literature was mixed. While we certainly lost the possible output of many Continue Reading...
Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, starkly and vividly describes the mass westward immigration of tens of thousands of displaced American Midwestern migrant workers, and the symbolically representative Joad family in p Continue Reading...
Tortilla Flat
CHARACTERS IN TORTILLA FLAT
Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck was first published in 1935. It is set in the Monterey coast of California. This book features the adventures of a group of men of Mexican-American descent called the paisan Continue Reading...