Once the war was over, Sandburg returned to his hometown where a veteran status gave him free admission to Lombard College. He became chief editor of the college newspaper. He attended for four years, but he never received a degree. A professor Philip Green Wright, not only encouraged his writing, but paid for the publication of his first volume of poetry, a pamphlet called Reckless Ectasy (1904). Sandburg became a nationally known as a poet around the age of thirtysix when a magazine (Poetry) published his shorter poems, including "Chicago".
The Things They Carried The book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is about a Vietnam War veteran who explains the life changing events that the members of Alpha Company as well as himself had experienced and witnessed before, during and after the Vietnam War and how these gruesome memories had impacted the lives of these soldiers. Things they will never forget and can’t seem to let go of. Although this is a fictional book it gives the reader a sense of imagery while reading, making you apart of these war events that go on in these soldiers minds. O’Brien seems to capture these dramatic moments through his writing of stories and structure in which he wrote them in, capturing the ‘truth’ of war. O’Brien begins his book by describing the things the men at war would carry with them which was a ton.
But only two of his five novels were published. John Howard Griffin kept a journal from the time he went blind. He wrote in his journal for twelve years until he died. He achieved twelve volumes before he died on September 9, 1980. John Howard Griffin left behind four children with windowed wife Elizabeth Ann Griffin.
Edgar Allan Poe For most people the name Edgar Allan Poe means mystery, darkness and a whole world filled with death and killings like no other. Each page contained teeth clenching descriptions that made your heart stop with terror. It made him be a mastermind. Edgar Allan Poe placed an erasable mark on American literature forever, but it wasn’t always like that, his life was as filled with sadness just as some of his stories were. And until this day his death his unknown which makes him even more mysterious.
He finished the novel “Getting It on” in 1971, that novel was later rejected but it didn’t phase King, he just kept on writing (39). One year later in seventy two Kings son Joseph is born (86). In January of 1973 King completes Carrie a novel in which he had been working for quite a bit of time (40). In March that same year King’s book Carrie was published (41). Between 1977 and 1982 king completed four whole novels under the name Richard Bachman, so he could write in different genres and not be criticized (Barron 1).
When I came to United States for the first time it was very hard for me to cross the border. I spent two weeks in Tijuana trying to cross the border. The INS caught me and put me in jail for one month. My family thought I had died. They were very sad.
Oshan bandara Holden Caulfield & PTSD Holden Caulfield is a particularly odd protagonist of the novel “The Catcher and the Rye”. His actions have defied the actions of many other protagonists of the time. Baring the boldness of being able to express himself without a language barrier has made Holden Caulfield, a strange but wonderful protagonists. Holden Caulfield experienced two very traumatizing events in his life, the death of his younger brother Allie and the suicide of James his classmate. Throughout the novel Holden Caulfield recounts numerous events that shows evidence that he is greatly affected by the deaths of Allie and James.
2. Meyers, Jeffrey (1992). Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy (Paperback ed.). New York: Cooper Square Press. Meyers explores the writer's turbulent life and career, including his marriage and his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling
The great depression and the dust bowl brought a new myth to the 1930’s which was the misconception of self-blame and personal responsibility which evolved from the earlier self-made man myth. “Most Americans were taught to believe that every individual was responsible for his or her own fate, that unemployment and poverty were signs of personal failure” (CD; B, 662). Many men were ashamed and blamed themselves for their loss, some even pretended to still go to work during the day because they were too ashamed to let down their family. (CD; B, 663) Some Americans also blamed the president himself and named their poor crumbling neighborhoods. “Many Americans held the president personally to blame for the crisis and began calling the shantytowns that unemployed people established on the outskirts of cities “Hoovervilles” (B, 676; CD) The 1930’s also show examples of our continuing inequality in America.
Upon its publication it was burned by farmers and for years after was among the most frequently banned books in America because of its profanity (Stanley 43). The Grapes of Wrath struck such a deep nerve it was deplored on the floors of Congress for its radicalism (Steinbeck). Oklahoma Congressman Lyle Boren went as far as to call it “the black, infernal creation of a twisted, distorted mind” (Stanley 2). Steinbeck's novel also harvested a downbeat response reflected in many book reviews and literary essays. Burton Rascoe of Newsweek called The Grapes of Wrath a “mess of silly propaganda, superficial observation, careless infidelity to the proper use of idiom, tasteless, pornographical, and categorical talk” (Cordyack).