USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What novelist portrayed the strength of the poor migrant worker in his works?
A
John Steinbeck
B
Bessie Smith
C
Langston Hughes
D
Louis Armstrong
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Grapes of Wrath, the best-known novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. It evokes the harshness of the Great Depression and arouses sympathy for the struggles of migrant farmworkers. The book came to be regarded as an American classic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -He argues they are considered “outlanders” and “foreigners” and are subject to total ostracism, even though their services are greatly needed by the agricultural industry. He writes, “The migrants are needed, and they are hated. […] They are never received into a community nor into the life of a community.

Detailed explanation-4: -Migrant Struggle John Steinbeck (1902-1968) John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, depicts the plight of the Joads, a family of Oklahoma sharecropper farmers who were driven off the land they worked by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2014. The novel, for which Steinbeck won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the migration of the Joad family from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl.

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