It’s hard to get through a day during the great depression. Everyday, my family worries about my father's job. Now there's one more thing to add to the pile of worries. The dust bowl. The storms have been going on for about 3 years now. When I woke up today, I could tell the dust was coming in. I had just finished feeding the animals in our barn when I noticed the sky off in the distance, was black. I got inside and notified my whole family to take cover. By now, we had the drill down. My mother put wet towels in every crack in every exterior door. Later that evening when my parents were putting my younger siblings Anna and Michael to bed I heard a “crash” just outside our house, I sprinted to the window to see what it was and I found that it was the roof to our animal barn! “Mom, Dad come quick!” I Yelled …show more content…
We jammed everything we could into our small wagon.What we couldn’t fit, we left by the side of the dirt road. As we drove through town and onto route 66 I knew this might be the last time we ever drive through this part of the country for a long time. Then, it hit me, where would we live? Will we live in one of those camps that my cousin Jenny wrote me about?I had so many questions about California, I didn’t know where to begin. Finally, after nearly 2 weeks of driving we arrived in California.In the beggining, work was hard. My brother, father, and I worked for long hot days in the long fields with many other children,and fathers. Eventually, we started getting the hang of things,but it definitely wasn’t any easier. My mom cleaned and cooked, well Anna made new friends in the camp. It was hard for our family to make the adjustment at first, but after a few weeks,we got into the routine of things. Although we had a place to live, working wasn’t fun. We went out to the fields at nearly 6 am and stayed out until dark.I can’t wait for the dust bowl to end, and even more, the great depression to
I am still the same Ginny. Except we are 3 years into this horrible Depression and I am now 20 years old. It’s been awhile since I’ve been here, but today is a great time to write. I now live on the streets with my parents and even elderly Granny. We live fairly okay for these times.
The Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low is an incredible piece of documentation about the struggles and hardships that were faced during the infamous Dust Bowl. In this diary, Low dives deep into many different subjects of struggle and change, and it is truly fascinating. In today's society, people take everything for granted. The survivors and witnesses of these horrible years are people that everyone should look up to as an example. In our world, eating the same food, or sleeping in an uncomfortable way is unbearable, but those problems were the least of the concerns of these people.
Snap! As I stepped on the last bit of a wilted cornstalk, I fretted the next harvest hoping it would be better. I barely could support my family, and I can not think about going through this again next year. The Dust Bowl practically killed all my crops, and the crops that were left had no profit. I can just hear my daughter asking again, “Daddy when can we eat something besides bread and corn.”
When we are facing with the natural disaster, all beings are suffering; nevertheless, we are still floundering in a sea of despair in order to be alive. During the 1930s, the Great Dust Bowl and the Great Depression caused lots of troubles in the world. Actually, “during the Dust Bowl years, the weather destroyed nearly all the crops farmers tried to grow on the Great Plains” (Farming in the 1930s. n.d.).
This day, the worst of the era, is where the Dust Bowl got its name ("The Drought"). The Dust Bowl not only affected the environment, but also caused damage in people’s health. Breathing in the dust made particles get into people’s lungs, which created breathing problems and suffocation until, sometimes, death ("Dust Bowl" 1). While people were dying, so were their crops and belongings. There was nothing else to do other than sit back and watch as farms, possessions, houses, even lives came tearing apart (Jones
The most beautiful individuals are the ones who went through one of the toughest situations but, yet, came out victorious in a fight that could not be only physically won but mentally. During the Great Depression, there were various factors that played a tremendous role in the devastation on the American people. The Dust Bowl, in 1934, coerced darkness across the Great Plains in America as the rains ceased completely in the earlier 1930s (“Dust”). Soil starved from water sought out for revenge and strangled the life out of the settler’s crops, prosperity, and life as they knew it. To make an already terrible situation even worse, the Great Depression developed and began its toll on the citizens of America when the stock market crashed and farmers
Children developed often fatal "dust pneumonia," business owners unable to cope with the financial ruin committed suicide, and thousands of desperate Americans were torn from their homes and forced on the road in an exodus unlike anything the United States has ever seen.” (“nytimes.com”) They could not escape from the depression but this gigantic
Nearly all of our windows are broken from the intense wind. It ain’t pretty. After a lot of talking, my parents decided that we’re going to California! At first, Papa was worried that Route 66 was dangerous for Jimmy and I,
Great depression in the United States started in 1929. It was a severe depression that led to massive unemployment, economic instability, insecurity and closings of banks, and stock market crash. The time of great depression finally ended in 1939, when World War II kicked American industry into high gear. Franklin D. Roosevelt played an important role in great depression and helped lessen the effects. This worst nightmare of United States starts when stock market crashes on October 24, 1929.
Talking Dustbowl describes the lifestyle of farming as, “Well, the price was up and all the rain came down. And I hauled my crops all in to town … Rain quit and the wind got high, And a black old dust filled the sky, And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine. And I filled it full of this gasoline… We got out to the West Coast broke”(Document 6). Many farmers suffered through the Dustbowl and the Great Depression because they had a lot of over bulk in crops due to overproducing for World War 1.
In The Worst Hard Time (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), Timothy Egan tells the stories of the people who survived the Dust Bowl. Dust storms swept across Americas High Plains during The Depression and many fled but Egan tells the stories of those who stayed and survived. Egan believes that the time that dust storms were happening was the literal “worst hard time”. Egan also believes that the dust storms played a large role in The Great Depression and that it was like nothing ever seen before. Egan shows how the dust storms were a great human and ecological disaster.
He also does a great job of describing how extreme the dust bowl its self was and how it effected people. He also describes the after effects of this large job loss on the people. He talks about a stretch of time from the 1890s to 1940s Thesis: America’s creed of maximization in the form of business farming paired with the drought Was the main cause of the poverty stricken people in the farming industry.
Banks shut down, people became bankrupt and the number of unemployed reached one quarter of the workforce. Farmers needed to produce more goods for the same amount of money; which led to a huge seven-year drought. ‘The dirty thirties.’ When thousands of workers migrated to California with a hope of achieving ‘The American Dream.’ Steinbeck was interested in those who
All I’ve ever wanted to be able to do is provide for my loved ones and live comfortably but now that’s no longer an option. I wear the same thing every day a farmers hat and a button down shirt. The Dust bowl forced me to move from my home and destroyed all of my crops and killed my farms animals. Since this all has happened I feel doubtful and scared for me and my family’s future.
Furthermore, The Worst Hard Time influenced my opinions and curiosity about American history, and makes me ask questions like “Why were things like the Dust Bowl swept under the rug even though they are important topics?” and “What other events like the Dust Bowl were not given any attention?” However it did not change my opinion about America since it gave me no sense of nationalism, but it did change my feelings on the American people, how they are determined to pursue their goals and determined not to lose what they already