Blog 8: New Yvork Times Article

Answer the following questions, either alone or with a partner. Your responses should be three-four sentences in length. You should be making connections between the NYT article and Steinbeck's text.

1. What is the main idea of this NYT article? What is its connection to OMAM?

We will be out of the recession by 2009. People will start getting jobs and money back.  Of Mice and Men Lennie and George are poor and in need of work because of the recession. There are too many people looking to be a worker for them to mess up

2. According to the article, "Some Forecasters See a Fast Economic Recovery," what 'psychological factor' is mentioned as providing the U.S. society with a false sense of comfort?

It says we are on hold and everyone is. Everyone will go back to normal.

3. Is there a similar psychological phenomenon that plays out in OMAM? [Hint: Where do the migrant workers' earnings go? Find support for your answers on pages 76-78 of the text.

There earnings go in a bank. Everyone will start getting money back.