The Dust Bowl By Gary Soto Analysis

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The dust bowl was a nitty gritty nightmare that lasted about a decade. It took place in the drought-stricken region of the United States, midst the Great Depression era. This period in time is generally considered as one of the hardest times in history. The dust bowl storms were often so atrocious that people referred to them as "Black Blizzards." Not only did the dust bowl make things tough for farmers, when the dust bowl swept up around 100 million acres of topsoil, but also for the rest of middle, United States.1

The Dust Bowl a tragic event that occurred during the 1930's primarily in the southern plains states. It hurt the lives of many people, and it was preventable. This event is relevant to what we are studying in class.

Natural disasters can cause massive damage, but few realize that many barely last a few days. If so much can be done in such a minute amount of time, imagine what a decade would do. The dust bowl was a weather event that lasted for the entirety of an eight-year drought and lingered for multiple years after. The result: Economic devastation for the agriculture of the area. The dust bowl was a large contributor to agriculture’s role in the great depression and defines how we approach environmental protection today.

During the 1930s, the United States faced various struggles such as The Great Depression- a time in which farmers suffered severely through many challenges. One of the challenges faced by farmers was the Dust Bowl tragedy; a dust storm affecting many farms throughout the midwest. The tragic Dust Bowl was a consequence due to lack of rainfall in the dry prairie lands, decreasing crop growth, and overproduction in farming causing more exposed land. It occurred because of advancements in farming technology, drought in the Great Plains, and the harvesting of grasslands.

Fine powder coating people's lips, inhaling dust with every breath you take. That is what it was like during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. On Thursday. April 18, 1935, a huge, black, billowing cloud piled up on the western horizon. The people in the Southern Great Plains called the the dust storms dusters. It darkened the midday sky and carried off valuable topsoil and made topsoil erosion. Children and the elderly died from breathing in the dust they called it “dust pneumonia.” Cattle such as chickens and cows couldn’t protect and defend themselves from the dust. They ran around in circles until they fell and died from breathing in so much dust. While humans could cover their mouths and eyes with cloth, scarves, and goggles to protect themselves. Some people had even considered that it was the end of the world. Some of the many factors that caused the Dust Bowl to happen were, over plowing the soil and the cows and buffalo over grazing the grass and, the lack of rainfall or drought in the great plains region.

In the early 1930s through the 1936, a massive event called the Dust Bowl occurred also known as the Dirty Thirties, dramatically affected areas within Oklahoma, Kansas, and Northern Texas due to extensive windstorms. This event forced numerous people to evacuate their hometowns. The Dust Bowl had a significant impact on society, it caused farmers to have no control of their agriculture because of the dried up land. Once the land dried up there was no way to renovate or replace the soil. This dilemma lead to more citizens to depend on the government for help, financially.

Wind and dust rage over your tiny farm house, out in the depths of Oklahoma. You are startled awake, to find piles of dust on the creaky wood floor. You hurry out of bed and prepare for a long day out in the Dust Bowl. The Dust bowls was a disaster that tore apart the United States. The uprooting of soil sent dust and dirt in every direction. Dust traveled through the wind, hundreds of miles over the dry and weak farmland. The Dust bowl was a terrible event that lead to migration to the west, destruction of farmland, devastation of the health of family and cattle, and the creation of the soil conservation service.

There were many many reasons why the Dust Bowl came about. I chose the three main reasons for the cause of the Dust Bowl. In the early 1930ś 300 dust storms called The Dust Bowl were huge storms that hurt Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. The land in most of these states were all grassless they plowed all the land so that they can plant crops. One of the reasons why the Dust Bowl came about was due to the drought the United States was having.

The time setting is in the late 1920’s through the early 1930’s. The location setting is in the Midwest to California, in the Dust Bowl. In this area the banks seem to control the lives of the people more than the government. There is a seeming concept of better life in California though it proves to be false with all the migrants taking all jobs.

overproduction. People in America thought there was so much land that they did not worry

In what was one of the most fertile areas of the United States, one of the Nation’s worst agricultural disasters occurred. No rain came so crops did not grow, leaving the soil exposed to the high winds that hit the area in the 1930s. Stretching over a 150,000 square mile area and encompassing parts of five states—these being Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico—the Dust Bowl was a time where over 100 million acres of topsoil were stripped from fertile fields leaving nothing but barren lands and piles of dust everywhere (Ganzel). While things were done to alleviate the problem, one must question whether or not anyone has learned from this disaster. If not, one must look into the possibility that the United States may be struck

You’re a kid living in the Dust Bowl. “Cough-cough.” You try to force down. Moving your plow back and forth you try to look over the barren wasteland you call home. Wind roaring in your eyes as you see a brown funnel full a dirt and dust less than a mile away. Driving for cover your world fads black. The Dust Bowl was made by a drought and high winds. The drought killed the prairie grass keeping the soil down and the high winds picked it up to make dust storms. The Dust Bowl was harmful to children that affect their education, how they had fun, their health, and spilt families apart.

In this passage, several conflicts are portrayed. In the beginning of the passage, Edmund and Mary Crawford are in conflict over Edmund’s future job as a clergyman. Both parties are equally stubborn and both are determined to convince the other. This results in tension between the two and they are unable to fully enjoy each other’s company at the ball, despite wanting to. In the second half of the passage, conflict arises between Fanny and Sir Thomas when Sir Thomas tries to prevent Fanny from waking up too early to have breakfast with William the next day. Unlike Edmund and Mary’s conflict, this conflict between Fanny and Sir Thomas is resolved within the passage. However, fanny is not left entirely satisfied as Sir Thomas imposes upon her

Aside from the Great Depression that caused the majority of Americans to fall into the lower class, ecology and military action altered the American class alike. Citizens bore unjustifiable prejudice against fellow citizens and thus divided the nation. Because of this, people were classified into privileged and the unprivileged. The Dust Bowl and the attack on Pearl Harbor assumed a significant role in reshaping social structure in the mid-1900s America, and the resulting burdens from such class differences were substantial.