Depression: A Brief Analysis Of Paula's Books

The two stories were alike in the fact that both authors lost their parents at a very young age. Since they lost their parents at a young age, they were both raised by their grandparents. Both stories also begin with a safe arrival to a new country. Both also said the journey to the new country was a two month long trip. And lastly, the the refugees and the pilgrims traveled to a completely different continents and had to adapt to new cultures. These are all the similarities between the two stories.

non-fiction. From her wide array of published works this critical analysis will be focused on her

The similarity and connection existing between the two stories is the point of view in the two essays. The stories are both written in the first person perspective and that

Light years removed from the kind of life she would eventually enter and write about, the genesis of the book happened during an expensive luncheon meeting with a magazine

I. There happen to be different settings in both of the short stories but both of the settings adapt well with their plots.

of why she's apprehensive of the books, other than that because the society says she should be.

Susan Beth Pfeffer decided that she wanted to be a writer when her father dedicated the law book he was writing to his daughter. Right then and there she wrote her first little story about the love between a pair of scissors and an Oreo cookie. Her childhood experiences form the basis of her writing, seeing that she grew up in the suburbs in New York. This explains why most of her books focus on young people growing up in the suburbs. Pfeffer went on to New York University. After getting her degree in radio, television, and motion pictures she started a writing course and her first novel Just Morgan was published. Throughout her life she has published more than 75 books and some of them include: A Year without Michael, Devils Den, Life as We Knew it and Family of Strangers. The themes of her books usually include emotional problems, divorce, historical fiction, and people having fantasies of modeling/acting. Her science fiction stories contain apocalyptic futuristic events like her novel Life as We Knew it.

Even though both stories have many similarities, the major conflicts are different, and these differences help the stories develop in separate

magazines of the time, which gave her views a lot of exposure to knowledgeable public.

books for all ages. she is known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity,

She became bored with the books that were more common for children her age and became interested in fairy tales and horse stories (Black Women 208). She received a card for the public library and as she became more comfortable with reading she discovered that she was very interested in science fiction (Black Women 208). Science fiction became a false reality for Butler, however she was concerned for the lack of Black characters and the stereotypes that women received in the novels that she read (Black Women 208). These important events were the beginning of the process that would shape her into a feministic science fiction writer.

the touchy subjects that she chooses to write on. Many of her works show how she looks, and is

Another similarity would be the characters in both stories. They are faced with the hard reality as they come to find out they weren't living in

According to Robert’s argument he also claims that the library system is for categorizing art books, his statement was that “every book creates order, individually and collectively. The order of a single book is a function of its written discourse, but the order of a group of books is greater than the sum of their texts. ” (The Map of Art History, 30). By his statement he meant that books are disciplinary and hold so much order and control over society because of the knowledge it provides in history. Mevil Dewey was a leader of the classification movement and the creator of the system that holds his name, stretching the educational mission of new public libraries, because of his mission,

To categorise texts, allows us to view the world from another perspective, and make sense of the world. This is the function of genre. This allows the responder to class texts even further into sub genres, which have conventions they follow to. Such as Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ can be classified into the genre of crime, yet can also be interpreted to fit the conventions of detective crime writing, and mystery. This is made possible through Poe’s utilisation of devices used in mystery and detective novels such as red herrings and denouement.