Topic：Describe the Baker's family background and their life then.

Topic：Describe the Baker's family background and their life then.

It was in 1932. The Great Depressiont the worst time before the World War Two, broke out. which lasted from 1 929 - 1933. I'he year 1932 was the bleakest time in the Great Depression. The Great Depression began in America and spread all over the European countries quickly. Also it was the Great Depression that led to the Second World War. Millions of people were out of work. Many factories and landlords went bankrupt. The year 1932 was the climax of the Depression.
The author’s father had died two years before,leaving them with a few pieces of Sears，Roebuck furniture and not much else. His family was poor so that his mother had to take his sister,Doris, and him to live with one of her younger brothers, uncle Allen, who had made something of himself by 1932 as a salesman for a soft-drink bottler and had an income of $ 30 a week.