We replaced our usual favorite food with more affordable... instead of cabbage we used shrub leaves, ate frogs... within a month my mother and older sister died... (Jack Griffin) a memory of a man who lived in the United States.
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Great googling exercise for beginners. The task: (1) to find the source and (2) to understand what is written there. Questions for Self-Control:

1st Who wrote the story of Jack Griffin?
2nd Who translated it into Russian?
Three How old was Jack during the Great Depression?
4 is From what bush did Little Jack eat the leaves?
5 is What other animals (other than frogs) did the hungry boy eat?
6 is What year did Jack’s mother and sister die? When was the Great Depression?
7 is Do you think the English text is reliable? Why is?
8 is How is the English text different from the Russian translation? How do you explain this difference?

Indication: everything is open access and indexed by search engines.

And I advise the preachers to take a quote about the Great Depression from Steinbach, “The Grains of Wrath.” Maybe from a book, maybe from a movie.