Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 5 Dec 2011 Flannery O’Conner: The Displaced Person Flannery O’Conner was born on the 25th of March, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia where she spent much of her childhood. When her father was diagnosed with lupus she moved with her family to the rural town of Milledgeville where she lived along with other members of her mother’s family. In 1945 she was awarded a journalism scholarship to attend Iowa State University. (Flannery) It was there that she would decide to pursue a career in fiction rather than fact. After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father.
She studied art at Douglass College in New Jersey for four years before she realized that it was not right for her and decided to take up writing. “I originally started writing the great American novel. Did three of those. Sold none. After ten years of being unpublished someone suggested I try romance” (Jean, sec.
Mildred D Taylor was born on the 13th of September 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi. I think she thought of the story because she was born in Mississippi (where the novel was set) and she was born during the Great Depression where black people where discriminated against. Many of her books are based on stories of her family that she heard whilst growing up. She experienced some of the unfairness so decided to show her hurt in literature so everyone could see how hard it was to live during the Great Depression. The plot is well written and is told in first person narrative by Cassie.
After receiving her schooling in Alabama, her junior year of high school Davis decided to apply for integrated northern schools; and got accepted to the Elizabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village, New York City. As a student there, she became fascinated by the Communist Party; an organization she would later hold strong ties with. Davis went on to study at Brandeis University, the University of Frankfurt and the University of California. At the University of California, Davis was fired from her position because of her association with the Communist Party. She fought them back in court and eventually got her job back.
The novel To Kill A Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. The novel takes place in Maycomb, Alabama: a slow, sleepy town in the deep South during the 1930’s. The storyline of To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the narrator of the novel. She begins the novel as a prejudiced, misunderstanding, young person who is naïve to many occurrences in society. As the novel progresses, she learns many life lessons, some from her father, Atticus Finch, and some from personal experiences.
Significance of Social Groups in To Kill A Mockingbird "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." These were wise spoken words from nine year old Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout. While the small town of Maycomb, Alabama became highly overcomplicated with social hierarchy, Scout and her brother Jem learned some very valuable lessons about how the real world works. While their father Atticus tries to raise them in a very respectful way, the children cannot help noticing the social divides between families with different personalities, wealth and race.
Alice Maldenior Walker, a female American Author, poet, and activist who was born in February 9, 1944 in a small city in Georgia. She lost sight of one eye at the age of eight years because of an accidental act of her brother playing with a BB gun. In her early high school days, she was a valedictorian which made her to win a “rehabilitation scholarship” made her to go to a college for black women called Spellman in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent two years at Spellman and was transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She then travelled to Africa as an exchange student in her junior year.
To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis Social commentary is one of the driving forces of fiction writers. All have opinions of the society from in which they were reared causing many of their story driving characters to come from similar situations. One southern born woman, Harper Lee, followed this formula when writing her staunchly moral yet surprisingly youthful novel To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Alabama before civil rights cases flooded the benches of justices and cases against African-Americans were considered open and closed. Through To Kill A Mockingbird, the reader puts on the shoes of a little girl, Scout, and traipses through this familiar town and learns of social injustice by seeing it affect not only a member of the town, but her own father.
Besides that Celia is an outsider, because none of the other kids want something to do with her, unless she is willing to do what the other kids say. After Elizabeth has beaten her up, the other kids were dragging her home. She doesn’t have a single bruise on her head, but she is still taking a lot of pills to take the pain. Celia and her mother have a very big
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Write a brief a biographical sketch of your author: ( at least 250-500 words in paragraph format) ( do not cut and paste from a source... this should be in your own words) Alice Walker was born in rural Georgia in 1944 and was the youngest of eight children. I chose to write about Alice Walker because she is such an inspiration and her writings catch my eye. At the very young age of eight, she lost her right eye due to an accidental shooting by her brother. She became blind in this eye and immediately felt like an outcast. She was stared at and taunted because of her eye and because of that she started writing.