No promises in the wind

No Promises in the Wind

The Great Depression

• Josh Grondowski-15 years old
• Joey Grondowski-10 year old younger brother
• Howie-Josh's friend, musician
• Lonnie Bromer- truck driver; he helped take care of josh and joey and helped them find a job at a circus
• Pete Harris- owner of the circus

The Great Depression

published in 1970

Characters

www.english.illiinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression

• Longest lasting and most severe depression
• Began with the crash of the stock market
• Many banks failed
• Spending reduced greatly
• Unemployment rose to around 14 million
• FDR helped lessen the effects
• The economy was not fully turned around until after WWll

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plot overview

Joey and Josh live with their family in Illinois. Josh gets in a fight with his dad and decides he would be better off on his own. He goes and talks to his best friend Howie about running away. Howie is on board and right as they are about to leave home, Joey comes up and asks if he can go with them. They hesitantly agree and the three of them start off into real world hoping that they could make enough money to live off of with their musical talents. Early on in their adventure they are trying to hop on a train to get to Nebraska and a tragic event happened. Now it is just the two brothers on their own. They have to start begging. The two boys meet a kind man named Lonnie Bromer. He offers to take the kids to Baton Rouge where he thinks he can get them a job at a carnival. A man at the carnival gives them a job like Lonnie told them he would and they started working their.

About Irene

THE END

(1907-2001)

1929-1939

They started to enjoy working their. Unfortunately the carnival later burned down putting the boys back on the streets again. They had make and saved up $22. With no money, the boys resorted to begging once again. One lady invited them in for a meal and let them stay at her house for the night. The next morning Joey gave a loaf of bread they had received while begging to the lady to show her thanks. This angered Josh so he struck Joey. Joey left Josh. Josh went out to look for his younger brother but passed out due to the cold and his sickness. When he woke up he was at Lonnie's house. Someone had found Lonnie's contact information in his wallet and called Lonnie. Josh explained to Lonnie everything that had happened. fortunately one day they heard a radio announcement describing Joey so they went to go find him. Josh and Joey decided it was time to go home. Tears of joy were shred as the family was reunited.

1929-1939

• Born in Pontiac Illinois
• Never married or had children
• Had a love for kids
• Teacher
• Grew up during the depression

Irene Hunt

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Education and career

• Masters degree at the University of Minnesota in 1946

• Pursued her bachelors degree at the University of Illinois and graduated in 1949

• Instructor for psychology at the University of South Dakota

• District director of language arts

• Taught junior high English and French