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Setting it out of the dust is very important because without the setting the whole plot would change for example the dust in everyone’s food, hair, and throat without it would be really different. Without the dust it seem like they’re a little bit more stable if the story took place in Michigan there would be more rain than Oklahoma, there would be more snow which will remove snow as a symbol of hope, they would seem more stable, they wouldn’t have to eat chunky milk, and much more. so in conclusion the setting makes the book more interesting it gives it more depth and overall its just really important to have the setting somewhere the dust ball actually happened.

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Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.

The term Dust Bowl was suggested by conditions that struck the region in the early 1930s. The area's grasslands had supported mostly stock raising until World War I, when millions of acres were put under the plow in order to grow wheat. Following years of overcultivation and generally poor land management in the 1920s, the region-which receives an average rainfall of less than 20 inches (500 mm) in a typical year-suffered a severe drought in the early 1930s that lasted several years. The region's exposed topsoil, robbed of the anchoring water-retaining roots of its native grasses, was carried off by heavy spring winds. "Black blizzards" of windblown soil blocked out the sun and piled the dirt in drifts. Occasionally the dust storms swept completely across the country to the East Coast. Present-day studies estimate that some 1.2 billion tons (nearly 1.1 billion metric tons) of soil were lost across 100 million acres (about 156,000 square miles [405,000 square km]) of the Great Plains between 1934 and 1935, the drought's most severe period.

Thousands of families were forced to leave the Dust Bowl at the height of the Great Depression in the early and mid-1930s. Many of these displaced people (frequently collectively labeled "Okies" regardless of whether they were Oklahomans) undertook the long trek to California. Their plight was characterized in songs such as "Dust Bowl Refugee" and "Do Re Mi" by folksinger Woody Guthrie, an Oklahoman who had joined the parade of those headed west in search of work. That experience was perhaps most famously depicted in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939).

The wind erosion was gradually halted with federal aid. Windbreaks known as shelterbelts-swaths of trees that protect soil and crops from wind-were planted, and much of the grassland was restored. By the early 1940s the area had largely recovered.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica John P. Rafferty.

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Dust Bowl | Definition, Duration, Map, & Facts

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Dust Bowl, both the drought period lasting from 1930 to 1936 in the U.S. Great Plains and the part of the Great Plains where overcultivation and drought resulted in the erosion of topsoil, which was carried off in windblown dust storms forcing thousands of families to leave the region during the Great Depression.

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Forgiveness

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“Thanksgiving List
Prairie birds, the whistle of gophers, the wind

blowing,

the smell of grass

and spicy earth,

friends like Mad Dog, the cattle down in the river,

water washing over their hooves,

the sky so

big, so full of

shifting clouds,

the cloud shadows creeping

over the fields,

Daddy’s smile,

and his laugh,

and his songs,

Louise,

food without dust,

Daddy seeing to Ma’s piano,

newly cleaned and tuned,

the days when my hands don’t hurt at all,

the thank-you note from Lucille in Moline, Kansas,

the sound of rain,

Daddy’s hole staying full of water

as the windmill turns,

the smell of green,

of damp earth,

of hope returning to our farm”
-(Hesse 220)

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Daddy is a very complex character when it came to his personality he was like a coconut hard on the outside soft on the inside. He was always hard-working and he stood up for what he believed. When it came to Ma he didn’t make so many sacrifices Ma was usually the one who made all the sacrifices for daddy he didn’t really care as much for Ma but, as soon as Louise came into his life he started to change he begin became nicer and he’s made more sacrifices he started washing the dishes he started doing all the kitchen work but for Ma nothin no sacrifice none.

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They use similes and used the format to give us hints in the book. The author all so use wording from there era.