From the informative essay and a speech by a president at the time, both have an intended purpose, to educate the reader or to persuade them. While both have similar information on the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl their intended purpose changes the meaning and view of the event in history to the reader. In the end both accounts describe the event in their own ways.
While the point of view is different the end goal is the same. Boths texts go into detail on the effects of the Dust Bowl. To start F.D.R the speaker in one of texts explains to the United States what horrible conditions he had witnessed. A quote from the text elaborates on this “I have talked with families that had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost their livestock, lost their water in their wells, lost their garden and come through to the summer with only 1 dollar.” The informative text “The Dust Bowl “also elaborates on this “Black Sunday was one of the worst dust storms in American
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The FDR speech paints them in a more innocent light as victims to a cruel world while the informative text puts the blame on the farmers for using horrible land techniques. “The Dust Bowl” state “. They made two big mistakes. First, in order to plant as much wheat as possible, they plowed over all of the natural prairie grasses that kept the topsoil2 in place. Second, they planted crops too often, instead of giving the soil a break every now and then. As long as the rain kept falling, neither of these mistakes caused problems.” In the contrary the FDR speech says the opposite “They stand ready to fit, and not to fight, the ways of Nature. We are helping and shall continue to help the farmer to do those things,” FDR puts the farmers in the place of victims who need help with contradicts the other text that directly blames the farmers unhealthy farming techniques to why the Dust Bowl