Inimai Subramanian

Ms. Waller

Honors English 9 Period 2

17 September 2018

Of Mice and Men Web Search

1. Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck.

2. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He died on

December 20, 1968.

3. Steinbeck worked as a ranch hand and fruit picker in his youth, and eventually started

writing short stories, novellas, and novels to become a well-known author.

4. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his

winning novel The Grapes of Wrath.

5. The book takes place in the Salinas River Valley. It is located a few miles south of

Soledad, where the water from the river is warm and is close to the hillside bank.
6. Soledad means loneliness or solitude in Spanish.

7. This line comes from the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. “The best laid schemes o’

mice an’ men” talks about well-planned things, and “Gang aft agley” is Scottish for often go

wrong.

8. A bindle stiff is a tramp, or a traveler in search of work.

9. A hoosegow is a prison.

10. Work cards were cards issued by the Works Projects Administration. This idea was from the

Roosevelt administration to bring back jobs during the Great Depression. Employers got free

labor in the form of men without jobs, and the government payed the employers.

11. The most common job for a migrant worker is farming. Other jobs were either construction

workers or laborers. They were not treated well and lived in poor conditions. They were very

badly payed and had to work long hours to make a living. Most of them were uneducated.

12. Black Tuesday was the day that 16 million shares were traded, creating a huge drop in the

stock market.

13. The Great Depression lasted approximately a decade in the U.S.

14.

15. Herbert Hoover was president when the Great Depression started.
16. Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 because his New Deal recovery programs

reduced unemployment and helped the economy.

17. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which

paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

19. As the time passed, the Depression worsened and many families lost their homes. They built

shantytowns near cities all over the U.S. called Hoovervilles after the president.

20.
21. Between 1929 and 1939, the minimum percentage of unemployment was 3.14% and the

maximum was 24.75%.

22. By 1933, almost 11,000 banks failed during the Great Depression.
23. A little African American girl from Old Saybrook, Conneticut asks Mrs. Roosevelt to find

her father a job as a caretaker, gardener, or janitor. She also asks to provide money so she could

go to college at Moody Theological College in Chicago. She explains how she would have to

pay a little extra to go since she is not white and begs Mrs. Roosevelt to not give her name or

letter to any newspapermen.

24. The Dust Bowl was a period of dust storms in the south of America caused by poor

agricultural practices and years of drought. This lengthened the Great Depression.

25.
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