The Most Important American Fiction Writer

When Carvers father left the family to work in northern California it was the start of his decline, but it was also a turning point in his relationship with his son who was starting to find his own way in life. Thoughout his dads illness Carver married and started his own family but he mentions “During those years I was trying to raise my own family and earn a living. But, one thing and another, we found ourselves having to move a lot.” (Carver, 387) It is here that we realize the path that Carver is taking is very similar to the one he watched his father take while growing up. His own struggles with alcohol and money seem to be a repeat of his fathers mistakes.

The first key idea conveyed in Carver’s work is that dealing with problems and hardship, despite being unpleasant, is the first step toward personal enlightenment. This becomes evident when Bub hears his name on the tape his wife plays, “After a few minutes of harmless chitchat, I heard my own name in the mouth of this stranger, this blind man I didn’t even know! And then this: ‘From all you’ve said about him, I can only conclude—’ But we were interrupted, a knock at the door,

Every person has challenges and different backgrounds that make him unique. These things effect how people think, speak, and act in different situations. Various experiences from an author’s life will influence his works and help them create their stories. A character or the story’s plot may resemble people and events that were present in an author’s life. Ernest Gaines became an accomplished author and the person he is today because of his life experiences during his childhood, his education, and his writing career.

With a unique and brilliant style of writing, Raymond Carver has left a lasting and outstanding impact on the history of short stories. Even though Raymond Carver left a long impact, his life was of the opposite. Like Raymond Carver’s famous award winning stories, his life was short. Raymond Carver was born on May 25th, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River. Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington. Carver had three members to his small family, his mother, his father, and brother. Carver’s only had one sibling, his younger brother, James Franklin Carver. Carver’s mother worked as a waitress and a retail clerk while Carver’s father worked as a fisherman and a saw mill worker. Many say that a skilled sawmill worker and

Born on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, Raymond Carver was destined to be a writer. He was a son of a sawmill worker and grew up working hard majority of his life. He married year after he finished high school and had two children with his wife at the time. He raised and supported his children with normal working class jobs such as delivering, janitorial and gas station services. Carver discovered his interest in writing after taking a creative writing course in college in 1958. His first success was in 1967 from the story “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” and ended up becoming a fulltime writer after losing his job at the time. He drank heavily and had problems with alcoholism around the same time, but he shortly recovered from that and started teaching at the University of Texas at El Paso and Syracuse University. A few years later in 1983 he won a literary award which made him focus on his full-time writing. His short story collection consisted of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” “Cathedral,” and “Where I’m Calling from.” In his short stories he mostly wrote about the everyday lives most experienced and problems of the poor, broken marriages, and financial problems. He died at the age of 50 of lung cancer but his stories continue to live on.

There were many influential African American writers in the 1900s. Amongst them being some whose legacies we still see about today such as Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Dubois, Alex Haley, and Richard Wright. Richard Wright was born in 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi. He has been highly regarded as a writer and to this day is one of the most important African American writers in history. Richard Wright stands out from the other writers because during his lifetime as a writer/journalist, he wrote over 4,000 haikus according to terebess.hu. Most Black writers focused on things that had to do with race as did Wright, however, the majority of what he wrote we’re haikus.

This articles I'm writing is about 3 American authors. they all have written novels and are successful in their careers. there are 3 different authors I am going to talk about: Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald and JD Salinger.

The short story A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver tells of two American parents dealing with their son's hospitalisation and death as the result of a hit-and-run car accident. The insensitive actions of their local baker add to their anger and confusion, yet by the end of the story, leave them with a sense of optimism and strength. With such content, Carver runs the risk of coming across as sentimental; however, this is not the case, and the anguish of the parents and their shock at the situation is expressed with dignity and understatement. It is a story with a broad appeal: the simple prose makes it accessible to a wide audience, while the complex themes and issues make it appealing to the educated reader. Written in Carver's

The short story, "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver tells of two American parents dealing with their son's hospitalization and death as the result of a hit-and-run car accident. The insensitive actions of their local baker add to their anger and confusion, yet by the end of the story, leave them with a sense of optimism and strength. With such content, Carver runs the risk of coming across as sentimental; however, this is not the case, and the anguish of the parents and their shock at the situation is expressed with dignity and understatement. It is a story with a broad appeal: the simple prose makes it accessible to a wide audience, while the complex themes and issues make it appealing to the educated reader. Written in Carver's

This bitterness and sarcasm is revealed as strong characteristics of the narrator. Throughout the majority of the story, the narrator continues shows his distaste for any "happy" situation. Much like the hyphenated asides, Carver implements fragmented sentences behind description, to show the narrator pausing for a moment of color commentary.

"I think there 's just one kind of folks. Folks" (Lee 304). Harper Lee is one of America 's most famous and beloved writers of her time. She has inspired people with her unique down-to-earth writing voice and her presentation of the rawness of people and life in general. Because of Harper Lee, America has learned to appreciate the differences in others from ourselves because "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view" (Lee 39).

An acclaimed and award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike also wrote poetry for most of his life. Born and raised in Shillington, Pennsylvania in 1932-died on January 27, 2009. Luckily, he was accepted to Harvard College and graduated in 1954. This is what turned his life around. After school was done, he worked for a few years on the staff of The New Yorker. When his writing abilities were finally noticed, he got the idea to start writing poetry and short stories. One poem he wrote was “Ex basketball player” its about an excellent basketball star in high school named Flick Webb, but nowadays he is merely a gas station attendant (Updike). Does John Updike pity or admire Flick? Are readers of the poem meant to

Through out Frank Kafka’s life he wrote many German novels and short stories. Kafka has been known to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. From Kafka’s writing he shows that what we go through influences in our life influences what we write and how we write and that sometimes the things we go through are so hard that we need to write in allegory. He was born on July 3, 1883 in Bohemia. He was born into a middle class German speaking Jewish family and was the eldest of six children. His two younger brothers died at a very young age and his sisters were sent to a concentration camp and were thought to have died there. After Kafka graduated high school, he was accepted to the Charles University of Prague and studied law. This is where he met Max Brod and they became very good friends. Kafka graduated university with a degree in Doctor of Law on June 18,1906. He started working at Workers Accident Insurance Institute in Bohemia. He gained several promotions through the years that he worked there but was also very committed to his writing. In 1917 Kafka began to suffer from tuberculosis that would require a lot of time for recovering. Surrounding him self with his family as he was trying to get better. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to try and get some writing done. This is where He fell in

His view is to let readers realize that life is a roller coaster that many things can inexplicably happen, though sometimes it seemed life was going well. For instance, the story claims, "I had been a good life till now. There had been work, fatherhood, family. The man had been lucky and happy...The child had been hit by a car and he was in the hospital..."(Carver, 1989, p. 49). This subtle contrast expressed herein is to make author's message abundantly clear, and perfectly articulate to me what is the author's view: Life is unpredictable, and it has ups and downs along the

Naipaul, considered by many to be the greatest living English language novelist. At a very early age he grew up in Trinidad where there was lot of poverty and a population of about half a million. With this type of situation he was given the ambition to write books and novels. Naipaul and is family believed themselves to be the descendants of Hindu Brahmin, though they did not observe many of the practices and restrictions common to Brahmins in India. The family gradually stopped speaking Indian languages and spoke English at home. On October 30, 1990 Mr. Naipaul gave a lecture on “Our Universal Civilization.” Western values of tolerance, individualism, equality, and personal liberty have given birth were discussed. He describes the personal and philosophical confusion of those who find themselves torn between their native civilizations and the valued of universal civilization. Also throughout "Our Universal Civilization," Naipaul argues that the strength of the West lies precisely in its intellectual "diffidence." He contrasts the West with Islam. These often reject Western ideals yet accepts the fruits of Western progress. Naipaul mentions two of its fundamental precepts: the Golden Rule and the pursuit of happiness. Naipaul refers to the Golden Rule as a Christian idea, but it was a Confucian idea long before it was Christian. For the pursuit of happiness, he says it is arguably the basis of Buddhism. He says that a new civilization is forming, and he is