Understanding Of mice and men, the red pony, and the pearl : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

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The work Understanding Of mice and men, the red pony, and the pearl : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Understanding Of mice and men, the red pony, and the pearl : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Title remainder

a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Statement of responsibility

Claudia Durst Johnson

Creator

• Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Subject

• History
• Literature and history
• Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Of mice and men
• Of mice and men (Steinbeck, John)
• Pearl
• Pearl (Steinbeck, John)
• Red pony
• Red pony (Steinbeck, John)
• Sources
• Steinbeck, John
• Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 -- Sources
• United States
• Zeithintergrund
• 1900-1999

Genre

• Sources
• History

Language

eng

Summary

Although works of fiction, John Steinbeck's novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are a window on the history of the times and places they portray. Learning about the historical, social, economic, and regional background of each novella is essential to a full understanding of it. This interdisciplinary collection of rich collateral materials features a variety of primary documents that shed light on each of these novellas - the pioneer days and life on the Western frontier, the early history of California, the gold rush, the plight of the migrant worker during the Great Depression, problems of the homeless and the hopeless, and oppression in Mexico in the early 20th century. Documents include memoirs of mountain men and pioneers, books of travel, sociological studies, a political treatise, a journal, reports of U.S. commissions, a comic memoir, and an interview with a Salvation Army general who worked with the downtrodden during the 1930s. Most of these materials are not available in printed form anywhere else. Each section of this casebook contains study questions, topics for research papers and class discussions, and lists of further reading for examining the issues raised by the novellas

Member of

• Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3537.T3234

LC item number

O464 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series,