THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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Railroad companies
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Meat packers
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Agriculture
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Woman Suffrage Advocates
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Detailed explanation-1: -The novel depicts the conflict between wheat farmers in the San Joaquin Valley and the Pacific and Southwestern railroad. When the railroad attempts to take possession of land leased to and improved by the farmers, they are challenged to defend themselves.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Octopus examines the struggle of California wheat farmers in the San Joaquin valley against the powerful Pacific and Southwestern Railroad monopoly. Norris employed the technique of literary naturalism in the novel to dramatize the issues of environmental determinism and social justice.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overview. Frank Norris’s novel The Octopus: A Story of California was published in 1901, 21 years after the event it fictionalizes; the Mussel Slough Tragedy resulted from a dispute between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad that left seven people dead.
Detailed explanation-4: -Legacy. The conclusion of The Octopus inspired D.W. Griffith’s 1909 film A Corner in Wheat, in which the magnate, after cornering the market in wheat, falls into a grain elevator and dies.
Detailed explanation-5: -There is a shoot-out between the farmers and the railroad employees, during which Harran Derrick, Hooven, Osterman, Annixter and others are killed.