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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