John Steinbeck: Experiencing the Dust Bowl

The 1930s was a major change in political, economic and social decade. The Great Depression and dust are swallowing people's nerves, reflecting our true power. From there, John Steinbeck told about Okies and its hardships came out. His book, especially the "Vine of Vine", reflects what actually happened in the 1930s. John Steinbeck has not written down what he had read before, but he wrote down what he experienced while traveling with migrant workers.

John Steinbeck's depression of the Great Depression and dust bowl is very accurate. According to Alan Brinkley's article "The Unfinished Nation", the explanation of his sandstorm, its reasons, and the appearance of the "bowl" are accurate. Steinbeck and Brinkley wrote that the worst drought in history hit the Great Plains and lasted ten years in the early 1930s. At this point, the farmers were tempted by high yield prices, so that they cultivated more crops on the grass, continued to use the same crop, eventually exhausting the soil. This and the lack of rainfall transformed these areas into "virtual deserts", and the wind blew dust through the plains of the clouds. Steinbeck explained in detail about this seemingly popular thing. In his novel, he explained the dust ball: "The wind is increasing, steady, uninterrupted gusts.

Have you heard about the sand bowl? Between 1933 and 1940, heavy droughts in the Great Plains of the United States caused a massive dust storm, leaving thick dust in the clouds. This cloud of dust was called "black snowstorm." Under extremely dry conditions, the top layer of the land is exposed to the wind. As everyone knows, the real cause of the dustproof bowl is that it does not adopt a serious drought and wind-resistant crop cultivation method.

Dust Bowl has produced many excellent American arts such as literary pictures and music. For example, the classic Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein imaged the image of a dust ball in their work, John Steinbeck imagined his "Angry Grape", or Woody Guthrie imaged a folk song like "Dust Storm" . Feelings to witness the feelings of this disaster. This is very important as even the bad things like dust balls indicate that people still find some good effects. It is very difficult to find the good side of horrible things. This may seem odd, but to some extent, the dust bowl has developed American culture to a certain extent.