John steinbeck the harvest gypsies. OF MICE & MEN. Genius. Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dusk.
Through the open door came the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game, and now and then the sound of voices raised in approval or derision. Slim and George came into the darkening bunkhouse together. Slim reached up over the card table and turned on the tin-shaded electric light. Instantly the table was brilliant with light, and the cone of the shade threw its brightness straight downward, leaving the corners of the bunkhouse still in dusk. Slim sat down on a box and George took his place opposite. Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, more than a quarter of a million teenagers left their homes and hopped freight trains looking for work or adventure.
This is their story. I first became interested in the boxcar boys and girls when I read Boy and Girl Tramps of America by Thomas Minehan, who rode the rails with the young nomads in summer 1932.