grapes of wrath
Soreach Sang Pd.6th 1/17/14
Soreach Sang
From Long Beach, California
January 14, 1934
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,
The Great Depression is increasing in Unite States. I’m from Oklahoma. My family is a tenant farmer. I have six members in my family; grandma ( Ny ), aunty ( Vuth ), ma ( Vy ), brother ( Johnnie), sister ( Sheila ), pa ( David ), and me. My family is having trouble because of the weather. The weather in Oklahoma had been changed this year. Farmers can’t farm their crops because of the drought and the dust storms. Since my family can’t farm, we don’t have any money to pay back our bills. My parents’ farm had been foreclosure. Everyone in my family got a hand bills and it said that they need 800 fruit pickers. We got nothing to stay for and we needed money. My family and I got no choice but to decide to make a trip to California. We sold most of everything we got to get money. We got about $200 to make a trip to California. We bought a jalopy truck for $75. We pack everything we need on the jalopy truck, by the next morning we will be done and ready to go. My grandma Ny cried all-night because she didn’t want to go. She had been living here for forever. She scares that she going to miss home and her childhood.
On our way to California were horrible because of the little space in the jalopy truck, the heat from the sun light, and we were hungry because of malnutrition. We tried to save money as possible because we don’t a lot of money. When we were crossing New Mexico my grandma was getting sick. After we got crossed New Mexico my grand past away. We got stopped by police six times because they think we were transporting fruit. We don’t have a lot of money left. We spent lots of money on gas, water, camps place and little bit on food. We were hunger. In the third night at one of the camps we met this family who on their way back to their hometown and they told us about hand bills. They said the company need 800 workers but they print out 20,000
Soreach Sang
From Long Beach, California
January 14, 1934
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,
The Great Depression is increasing in Unite States. I’m from Oklahoma. My family is a tenant farmer. I have six members in my family; grandma ( Ny ), aunty ( Vuth ), ma ( Vy ), brother ( Johnnie), sister ( Sheila ), pa ( David ), and me. My family is having trouble because of the weather. The weather in Oklahoma had been changed this year. Farmers can’t farm their crops because of the drought and the dust storms. Since my family can’t farm, we don’t have any money to pay back our bills. My parents’ farm had been foreclosure. Everyone in my family got a hand bills and it said that they need 800 fruit pickers. We got nothing to stay for and we needed money. My family and I got no choice but to decide to make a trip to California. We sold most of everything we got to get money. We got about $200 to make a trip to California. We bought a jalopy truck for $75. We pack everything we need on the jalopy truck, by the next morning we will be done and ready to go. My grandma Ny cried all-night because she didn’t want to go. She had been living here for forever. She scares that she going to miss home and her childhood.
On our way to California were horrible because of the little space in the jalopy truck, the heat from the sun light, and we were hungry because of malnutrition. We tried to save money as possible because we don’t a lot of money. When we were crossing New Mexico my grandma was getting sick. After we got crossed New Mexico my grand past away. We got stopped by police six times because they think we were transporting fruit. We don’t have a lot of money left. We spent lots of money on gas, water, camps place and little bit on food. We were hunger. In the third night at one of the camps we met this family who on their way back to their hometown and they told us about hand bills. They said the company need 800 workers but they print out 20,000