It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. The Grapes Of Wrath(1939) by Steinbeck John.

United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm homestead by the 'land companies' and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. First published in 1939, 'The Grapes of Wrath' is a landmark of American literature.

We will also read a long-forgotten novel, Sonara Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown, written by the woman whose research into the migrant camps of California was (without her knowledge or consent) shared with Steinbeck.īill Savage, Professor of Instruction in the Department of English at Northwestern University, has been teaching seminars at the Newberry Library since 1992.In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. In this class, we will discuss the novel and the John Ford film version, as well as musical adaptations by artists from Woody Guthrie to Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine.

The story of the Joad family and their migration down the Mother Road from Dust Bowl Oklahoma to the purported promised land of California spoke to readers and to other artists, then and now. One of the greatest such stories (of its day and ours) is John Steinbeck's 1939 masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. In an America politically divided, in a time of economic upheaval and environmental catastrophe, stories were told to make sense of the times.

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