The Marigold: The Great Depression

When you hear the stock market you wouldn't think it had anything with depressing, but for those who lived between the 1929 there 1940 those two things they knew very well. During this time the stock market had dramatic crash which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. During this hard time there seem things were very grim. These hard times during the depression era got documented in many forms like movies, music, photo, and other things. Two of my favorite documents is the photo listed below and the short story "The Marigold." While one is a photo an another is a short story I must say both tell and show a lot about the depression era.

I can see why they say that a picture is worth a thousand words because this shows so much about this era. This photo was taking by Dorothea Lange who is a well-known for the photos she took during the depression era will working for the (FSA) Farm Security Administration. This photo stuck out to me do to the kids, not saying this the only photo with children in, but more so because I can relate more to them than others being that live in a bigger household. I can see familiar emotions in this photo. It's clear to see the boredom in the
The story told from a young girl's point of view named Lizabeth. Although it from a child's view-point it still shows the adult's struggle. This is another reason I love this story, it shows how adult and children deal the troubling time. Lizabeth dealing with what she thinks its anger, but really is pain and how she deals with her pain then shows how her father deals with his pain. Lizabeth dealing with it by taking it out on the marigolds and her dad dealing with it by venting and crying to her mom. Almost any young adult can relate to dealing with feeling their unneeded retaliation to people or thing that may not deserve it. I can just relate to the outlook of the