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Reading Notes A Week 8

Dreams and Awakenings

  • Carmel “el puerto perdido” the lost coast by Sebastian Vizcaino 1603
  • Robinson Jeffers-beginning of California literature
  • “Frank Norris saw the wheat and the octopus as complex metaphors for the struggles transforming California into a Darwinian new world” 394
  • “Saw physical California and he geographic Wedt as the last site for American dreams of eternal renewal and progress” 394
  • As early as the Civil War Northern and Southern California has become opposites; northern primarily Democratic, pro labor, and Catholic, Southern mostly Republican and pro business, and Protestant 
  • Los Angelas considered by some to be fake and full of people looking to make quick money or perfect for cults 
  • Socially and economically devastated by The Great Depression until the mobilization of WWII
  • John Steinbeck became an international figure for The Graoes of Wrath also won him a Nobel peace prize 25 years later

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