约翰斯坦贝克.ppt

John Steinbeck; Social background;The reason of the Great Depression ; The reason of the Great Depression;The reason of the Great Depression;The process of the Great Depression;*;*;With the end of the decade came the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s，cataclysmic events that shattered public complacency and transformed American society。The abrupt end of prosperity weakened the nations confidence in its government and its political leaders。 American artists of all kinds produced works of political and social criticism。Painters created harsh visions of American life on farms and in cities。Photographers recorded the miseries of poverty and want。John Steinbeck and other writers described the sweat-drenched lives of factory workers and migrant farmers in journalistic reports，in short stories，and in such memorable novels as the Grapes of Wrath。 ;The Grapes of Wrath;III. Analysis of his masterpiece, “The Grapes of Wrath”;1. Source of the title;2 . Introduction of the story --- His epic masterpiece of social consciousness and a crisis novel; --- A picture of helpless people crushed by drought and depression； --- One of the classic documents of the Great Depression; --- The thirteen members of the three generations of the Joad family are the impoverished (一贫如洗的) victims of the Dustbowl1 drought in Oklahoma； --- They set out on the trek (长途跋涉) in an old automobile they bought for all their family property for California, in which they believe they could seek their promised land2 ;--- On the road, before their eyes are: a. Unspeakable pain and suffering on the road; b. Frequently occurring deaths c. An universal landscape of decay and desolation --- Reaching and settling down in California, they met with bitter resistance from the local landowners ;--- Working in the migrant labor camps in California, life proved to be a misery of poverty and dislocation(混乱): --- As a result, the