"Woman and Family: The Dust Bowl"

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I had the honor of seeing this beautiful picture of a woman and her children last semester and my English teacher discussed this picture in class, I was forever changed. I had never seen this picture my life. The great depression affected many.Her pain, desperation and despair are so apparent and I felt this belonged in my war section. Too completely different periods of time, though somehow similiar. I say "beautiful" because I am selfish I did not realize what other women have suffered and endured. Her face says it all. I can feel the dirt and griminess. I am thirsty. I am hungry, seeing her sitting there contemplating, her situation in the "Dust Bowl"

As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless - restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do - to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut - anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land."

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