1. Why does Jim Nolan get involved Harry Nilson? If you were John Steinbeck and you were going to offer your readers a thesis—an argument for writing this book—what would it be?
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1. Why does Jim Nolan get involved Harry Nilson? If you were John Steinbeck and you were going to offer your readers a thesis—an argument for writing this book—what would it be?
Basically Jim comes to communism through starvation. Jim is really at his breaking point. Jim's own father was bludgeoned by a policeman's stick. Harry initiates Jim into the communist party to fight abuse by business. Steinbeck was horrified by the treatment of mid-western farm families during the depression. I certainly am no John Steinbeck but a thesis might sound something like this,
"During the depression, mid -western farm families were relegated to slave labor to feed their families. The abuses of big business on these people went largely unnoticed by the American public."
"During the depression, mid -western farm families were relegated to slave labor to feed their families. The abuses of big business on these people went largely unnoticed by the American public."
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