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1 OF MICE AND MEN John Steinbeck

2 Something about the author born in 1902 in Salinas, California setting for much of his fiction, including Of Mice and Men(1937) As a teenager, worked as a hired hand on neighboring ranches Impressed deeply by rural California and its people

3 … His works > plight of desperately poor California wanderers cruelty of their circumstances > triumph spiritually Of Mice and Men set in Depression-era America. workers like George and Lennie victimized by the economic conditions quest for land thwarted by cruel and powerful forces beyond their control their tragedy marked, ultimately, by compassion and love.

4 The History of Migrant Farmers in California After World War I many rural poor and migrant agricultural workers from the Great Plains states (Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas) to California a recession > a drop in the market price of farm crops > farmers forced to produce more goods many farmers bought more land and agricultural equipment >debt The stock market crash of 1929 Banks forced to collect debts. Unable to pay their creditors >lost their property The nation’s unemployment rate skyrocketed to 25% in 1933.

5 … The increase in farming activity > precious soil to erode + a seven-year drought began in 1931 > fertile grasslands became a desertlike region known as the Dust Bowl. Hundreds of thousands of farmers packed up their families and few belongings and headed for California: a promised land. Migrant workers came to be known as Okies (mostly Oklahoma) often met with scorn by California farmers and natives, > their dislocation and poverty even more unpleasant.

6 … In Of Mice and Men the grueling, challenging, and often unrewarding life of migrant farmers George and Lennie dream of a better life on their own farm = the Great Plains farmers dreamed of finding a better life in California. The state’s mild climate > longer growing season + soil favorable to a wider range of crops > more opportunities to harvest Very few found it to be the land of opportunity and plenty of which they dreamed.

7 Main themes of the novella The Predatory Nature of Human Existence Fraternity and the Idealized Male Friendship The Impossibility of the American Dream

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