Children Of The Dust Analysis

In the Dust During the dust bowl era tenant farmers would sit and watch their crops fail again and again. The dust bowl is known as the most economically devastating natural disaster in the United States. Severe drought and wicked dust storms would ruin crops causing farmers to become poor, and no matter what they did their land would continuously be destroyed. The constant failure and mass destruction of farms caused more and more farmers to become unemployed. The calamitous Dust Bowl was a main factor in the Great Depression due to farmers losing their land and subsistence. Children of the Dust: an Okie Family Story by Betty Grant Henshaw describes the catastrophic events of the Dust Bowl era from the perspective of a young girl who only knew of life on a farm in Oklahoma. However, the speaker experienced the worst of the dust storms and droughts first hand,
The constant crop failure during the Dust Bowl era caused the Grant family to struggle financially. They soon became very poor and a had hard time buying necessary items such as food and clothing, and they soon found that there was nothing they could to have an adequate supply of money because storms kept coming. Oklahoma farmers began to believe that moving out of state was the only option, but the Grant family as well as other families did not want to leave their lives in Oklahoma behind. Those who stayed behind would keep moving to different areas in Oklahoma hoping that their lives would improve. However, farmers still struggled and watched as their crops were ruined once again. The Grant family watched all of family leave, and soon they began receiving letters and packages. Betty’s Aunt Addie “sent a picture postcard showing fields of fluffy white cotton, and she promised there was work,” (Grant Henshaw 44). After seeing no improvements, the Grant family finally packed up and left for