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As the unemployment soared, the economic crisis caused panic and stress, and fears of losing jobs and unemployment caused anxiety. Some of the people who were impacted physically and psychologically attempted to commit suicide. Migrant mother photo is a very powerful and famous picture that shows the pain and worry of a migrant mother in Great Depression (1930-1939). The picture tells a story, and its worth a thousand words. It tells the story of displaced, worried under class people who happen to be frozen in time what happen to be known as the hardest and longest depression of our times.
This Photo is known as the “migrant mother†by Dorothea Lange in 1936 outside Nipomo, California. this image is Anomic Social Relations, “a state brought on by dramatic changes in economic circumstances†(Ferrante 123). At the time this photo was taken, there was a period known as the Great-depression beginning with the stock market crash from in 1929 to just before World War II 1939. Author of Dust bowl descent says that Florence(the woman featured in the photo), was “Displaced from her home in Oklahoma in the early 1930s, Florence and her family were traveling from one small California farming town to another, looking for workâ€Â(Ganzel). Florence, who left her home town in Oklahoma due to the effects of great depression, was exhausted and frustrated by the living conditions. Ganzel continues, “The family was looking for work in the pea fields outside of Nipomo, California. But a late frost had destroyed the crop, and worse, they had car trouble, so they couldn't move on†(Ganzel). You can probably see all the emotional and physical pain that she displays in this image. Her face says it all, the hunger, the desperation, and the destitute brought by the quick economic changes. Ferrante says that Anomic Social Relations bring a declassification that suddenly casts people into a lower or a higher class. May Florence happens to be casted to a lower class or worst.
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