Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
Even humble, poor, illiterate people may have their own personal tragedys. You dont have to
be king to experience tragedy. His books are very muc based on dialogue. The situation of the
characters are very often explained through conversation. His texts are rather easily adapted to
the stage and for the cinema.
,,Grapes of wrath"- the major breakthrough. Published in 1939. That made him notorious.
Contained a lot of elements that went against puritanian minds. Story of farmers, that is forced
to move from their Oklahoma farm elsewehere, to California. They are forced to move
because of the natural disaster, the dust storms. People were motivated to move. The family
Joads, the story of general generations of the family, how they cope or do not cope with this
transition, from this move from one lifestage to another. Actually there is little plot to speak
of, little adventure. State of small farmers who move from one state to another
annaabi.ee 
