We talked in class about how To Kill a Mockingbird sugar-coats the relaities of the Great Depression and racism in the south. There are other books that deal with the topic in a much grittier and realistic fashion.
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. In a nearly hopeless situation, they set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" in search of land, jobs and dignity.
Below are two songs based on The Grapes of Wrath.
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Hooray for Mumford and Sons!
Speaking of literature-inspired music, there's a band called Gatsby's American Dream (you already get the idea) that made an album based on Animal Farm and a song based on Lord of the Flies.
Jack..nice find. Listened to a couple of their songs. They are a little derivative for my tastes, but great literary allusions. For anyone interested here is a link to the song i liked best...
http://youtu.be/o95aEzRmM04
How should the freewrite title be formatted?
No specific format Jill
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