What is the central idea of Chapter 27? Cite evidence to support your response. [R2] *
2 points
Your answer
Read the excerpt below. Then, answer questions 2-5.
As the four of us sit by the fire after the sweat, I know they are all feeling what I'm
feeling. We're truly brothers. Whatever happens from here on in we'll always be as close as
kin.

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.