Ch. 12 The Great Plains and Prairies

A small section of Chapter 12 deals with the "Grasslands Literature." A lot of the novels mentioned in the chapter described the region and environment of the Great Plains. Some of the novels that had excerpts in the chapter were Main-Traveled Roads, Giants in the Earth, Old Jules, My Antonia, and The Grapes of Wrath.

I thought The Grapes of Wrath was significant because the author of that novel is John Steinbeck who was born and raised in the Monterey County, in the city of Salinas. The Grapes of Wrath was set in Oklahoma (part of The Great Plains and Prairies) during the Great Depression. The novel follows the Joads, a family of poor sharecroppers driven from their farm in Oklahoma, to California due to the drought. Steinbeck wrote many other great pieces of literature including Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row, both of which were set in the Monterey County.

References:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath
2. http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/26465.JPG (picture)