How does Sanora Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown capture of Dust Bowl migrants? What does her novel suggest about the larger experience of Americans during the Great Depression?

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How does Sanora Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown capture of Dust Bowl migrants?

What factors shaped their choices to move?

What conditions did they find in California?

What does her novel suggest about the larger experience of Americans during the Great Depression?

For this last part, you should draw from the Migrant Mother documentary and the primary sources from Chapter 23. This essay should be 750 words.

These are the two sources: Chapters 21-cho23 in the American yawp book

http://www.americanyawp.com/

Migrant Mother, behind the Icon

How does Sanora Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown capture of Dust Bowl migrants? What does her novel suggest about the larger experience of Americans during the Great Depression?
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