Life Of The 70s By Bobbie Ann Mason 's Shiloh

When Wilson said, “As we drove off, Mother told me about her old friend Betty Ann whose husband Carl had died recently. It seems Betty Ann got in the passenger seat of their new Buick and waited a full three minutes for Carl to appear behind the wheel before finally hauling herself to the other side of the car and driving

Themes within ShilohWithin the story "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason, the three main reoccurring themes are self-fulfillment, independence, and marriage. From these themes, a variety of symbols emerge to demonstrate why both Leroy and Norma Jean have their own particular problems. There are multiple symbols that relate to these themes. One of these symbols is the log cabin that relates to self-fulfillment. Secondly, Norma Jean takes steps and changes her life style to live independently. Lastly, the Civil War relates to the theme of hardships in a marriage.The short story "Shiloh" is in the narrator 's point of view. The story begins with the main character, Leroy Moffitt, watching his wife Norma Jean exercise. Leroy

The poem “Mothers and Daughters” is written by Pat Mora. Pat Mora is a contemporary award winning writer, who writes for children, youngsters and adults. She was born in El Paso, TX in the year 1942. She attains a title of a Hispanic writer; however, the most of her poems are in English. In her literary work, one can observe the different aspects of the immigrants’ lives such as language issues, family relationships, immigrants’ experiences and cultural differences (1187).

In “Shiloh,” by Bobbie Ann Mason, the reader is able to glimpse the beginning of the end of a marriage. Mason allows the audience to see the different strings unravel as the character’s separates from each other, emotionally, mentally and physically. In “Shiloh,” a woman’s husband, Leroy, has been in an accident and is no longer able to continue with his work of truck driving. The woman, Norma Jean, is unable to cope with her husband being home all of the time and begins to find ways to get away from him and her overbearing mother, Mabel. Throughout the story we see Leroy’s struggle to stay with his wife and Norma Jean’s struggle to break away from her husband. As Leroy and Norma’s marriage continues to drift apart, Mabel

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

for independence, building her body" (1). At the end, they finally break up because it was

Wanda Coleman’s Angel Baby Blues highlights the black experience in Southern California. She talks about the struggles of African Americans and how and where they endure discrimination. In the short story, Coleman explores discrimination in and outside of the classroom. Her story can be linked to Kendrick Lamar’s The Blacker the Berry. In this song, Lamar also talks about the black experience but goes deeper into discrimination. He goes into detail about the struggles that the black community goes through as well as himself being an African American man. His lyrics are very strong, creating images of discrimination while cursing and highlighting the same themes presented in Coleman’s story. Angel Baby Blues and The Blacker the Berry are very

In Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”, after Leroy’s accident in his truck, the pleasant illusion that he is in a perfectly functioning marriage is shattered leaving the reality that he and Norma Jean have ongoing issues that have been hidden and ignored for the majority of their marriage. The log cabin he never builds, the couple’s new hobbies, the baby they lost, the dust ruffle Mabel makes for them, and the trip they take to Shiloh ultimately cause Norma Jean to decide to leave Leroy. “Shiloh” is laden with symbols for the state of Norma Jean and Leroy’s marriage, and each situation introduced since Leroy’s accident forces them to look at how little they know about each other.

Ghost Singer by Anna Lee Walters is a tale of the historical injustices suffered by Indigenous peoples and the modern consequences of those injustices. Although it is clear that the spirit people in the novel serve as the most outwardly fearsome people in the novel, it is important to take into account the overall systemic injustices that the characters of Native American heritage suffer under throughout the histories presented in the novel. Walters addresses fearsomeness and sympathetic characters through the use of dangerous characters and situations presented directly and indirectly to the characters. The fearsomeness of the characters and the sympathy felt for the characters is dependent upon the perspectives of the readers since these fearsome figures are “a cultural construct and a projection” of that cultures fears (Cohen 1). The fearsome figures in the novels are presented to initially be the spirits haunting the artifacts, but upon closer examination the larger more entrenched issue of outdated models of thought in relation to Indigenous peoples appear to be the most important fearsome figure. The protagonist of the novel is dependent upon the views taken, and the fearsome figures that the historians, such as David Evans, and characters are attempting aid the spirits, such as George Daylight. Walters addresses the fearsome nature of a system dependent on examining and judging indigenous societies based on white values, which is problematic since both cultures do not

In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the effects of the First World War are evident as seen by the large number of American expatriates residing in Paris. The most profound effect is seen on Lady Brett Ashley and the audience sees this effect through the lense of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. Lady Brett has an inner conflict so extreme that she is able to illustrate the three main aspects of the psychoanalytic theory: Her addiction to sex and alcohol is the ‘id;’ the id is known as the biological drives and instinctual tendency of a human. Her hopeless infatuation with Jake Barnes and the idea of love serve as the ‘superego,’ the superego being the conscious self-image, and the conscientious effort to fit in and act out the normal parts of life, which in Brett’s case is to fall in love and get married. Lastly, her blind love with Pedro Romero is the ‘ego,’ which is the part of the brain that works out Lady Brett’s sexual demands as well as her need to find somebody to love and thus mediates and links her aggressive sexual prowess with her softer side that shows a more passive, love-oriented angle. Lady Brett Ashley’s polarizing effect on each and every character in the novel is far too complex and unique to leave untouched. Rarely will a character be demonstrative of each of the three aspects of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, however there is a unique angle to Brett’s personality. While most psychologists say that Brett has an

After two years of working in a factory, Lee's mother took Lee and his brothers out of the orphanage (Posner 6).

Chester And Gus, by Cammie McGovern, is one of my new favorite books, and a definite page turner. This 241 page realistic fiction book, is told by Chester, in first person. Chester tells us about his life journey, and him training to be a special service dog for a little boy, Gus.

Norma Jean and Leroy’s marriage is falling apart without even them noticing it. Norma Jean wants to move on with her life. Leroy still living in the past. Their marriage was broken when they lost their child due to SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). After that, they stop communicating and never talk about what happened. Leroy is a happy- go-lucky man. He likes to smoke weed to forget about what happened to him and to deny that their marriage is going down the hill. In the other hand, Norma Jean’s like to learn something new. Norma Jean works and taking classes at night. At the bottom of page 873, “Now she stays up late, writing compositions. She got a B on her first paper - …” that means a good accomplishment that ever happen to her. Also

Have you ever wondered about what techniques can be used in a story to describe a mood or an atmosphere? In the story “Lob’s Girl”, by Joan Aiken, Aiken uses three of the many techniques. The three techniques were Plot Events, Settings, and Word Choices. These techniques were used to express the mood in the beginning and at the end of the book.

Having barely enough teeth to chew, living with the fear of dying any moment, and having age marks all characterize what is so called the “old age”. This age is the age of need, when people become dependent again on others because of many reasons that prevent them from acting independently. It is very similar to the time when we were little and we had our parents take care of us from eating and dressing to driving us to school. It is inevitable that our parents will get to this age and they will need us despite of not admitting