OMAM General Flashcards
What are migrant/ itinerant workers
Workers that moved from place to place as jobs on ranches were seasonal and temporary
What global issues were ongoing during OMAM
-Great Depression
-Wall Street Crash
-Dust Bowl Crisis
-Mass unemployment
How did the Wall street crash happen
In October 1929, Wall Street investors began selling their stocks en masse, causing the stock market to crash
What was the dust bowl crisis
In the 1930s years of severe draught and overcultivation of land combined with dust storms to devastate the US.
What does the setting of soledad tell us
It is going to be lonely, sole means alone in Spanish, depicting loneliness faced by migrant workers
Who is only allowed into the bunkhouse on special occasions and why?
Crooks. he is black
the water snake
represents deceit, implied biblical reference
What is the american dream
everybody who is willing to work hard, will receive great rewards of freedom, prosperity, and self sufficiency
