The Great Depression: Two POV's
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- Its 1929, a couple of days before the Market Crash
- Come Annabell, I need you to help me with dinner before your father gets home!
- I guess I should get going everyone is going to eat soon, I'll introduce you there
- Dad comes home from work fairly cheerful, but today was different
- As he walked in I immediately knew something was wrong, I found out why the next day.
- Welcome home father!
- The Stock Market Crash of 1929 stopped everyone in their tracks. My family suffered because all of our money went down the drain.
- Wow her outfit is way nicer than mine, but I wonder how her family is handling it?
- WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE CANNOT GET OUR MONEY OUT!!!
- Not too long after the Market Crash father lost his job
- Mother then had to find a job so we could sustain ourselves. Father was afraid we might have to move to a "Hooverville"
- Another day of work is another day for food on the table.
- My family could not afford to keep our house anymore. We were already scrounging for money, so we had to move to a Hooverville.
- I wish the government would just do something better about it
- A couple of years later Franklin D. Roosevelt got elected president. He passed what he called "The New Deal" in hopes that it would ease the depression.
- Father, I'm really hungry!
- I know Annabell, but we've already taken our share from the soup kichten
- By the end of it all though the stock market wasn't stopped by the Presidents actions.
- I'm going to lose my father to the war! I cannot be the only one going through this.
- Many men, including my father, gave up their lives to protect this country.
- A stately home in the late 1920's
- I cannot wait for the party tonight mother. It will be spectacular.
- House of the Flynn's, a well off family who earns most, if not all of their funds from stock.
- Me either Beatrice. Hopefully your father gets home from work early enough. He always seems to be at the bank.
- After the grand party was over, I overheard father talking to mother about something
- What's going on?
- I got word from the bank that the stock market is not doing very well.
- Date: October 28th, 1929
- The next day, I went to the bank with my father. He said it was urgent business.
- I will have my money! For heavens sake I am a banker and I know my rights.
- I hope the girl behind us has better luck.
- Date: October 29th, 1929
- I'm sorry sir, I am going to have to ask you to leave. I cannot give you your money right now
- Little did we know that our lives would take a turn for the worst. Father was laid off from his banking job. Mother and I had to go work as seamstresses.
- Mama's wages were not enough to sustains us though. We had to give up our stately home and move closer to the city.
- Please anyone just a little spare change will help.
- On my way back home from the factory I noticed a girl begging on the streets.
- I immediately recognized her from the bank not too long ago. I knew that I was not going through this alone.
- Here you go!
- A few years later we heard Franklin D. Roosevelts decree called "The New Deal", which was supposed to help relieve all of us.
- My parents were skeptical of the plan, but all the same it gave us hope.
- My parents were right to be skeptical. The thing that actually stopped the Great Depression was the start of World War 2. Not the programs and projects of the Government
- In the end, social class did not matter because every man that was able would fight in this war.
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