Theme And Theme In Hillbilly Elegy By J. D. Vance

Grit is a good quality to have. I know lots of people that have grit, but perhaps the strongest person I know would be my aunt, Jessie. Her husband, Randy, was having health issues. Jessie was completely unaware of any of these problems. It came time to go to the doctor and get things checked out. Jessie still didn’t know that this was going on. Within a day they called him back to tell him that his blood work had reflected some MAJOR issues. He was rushed to Iowa City and stopped breathing twice. The ICU was his new home. Every major organ in his body had completely shut down, and he was depending on life support to try and hold on. This didn’t make sense. It wasn’t fair. He was young, he was full of life, and then out of the blue he was

The book Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of A Family And Culture In Crisis written by J.D Vance is not like anything I have ever seen or read about. Vance begins his book by introducing the most important people around him, his family. Mamaw, Papaw and his sister Lindsey were his biggest support system and in many cases, his safe haven. In Middletown, Ohio where Vance spent the majority of his childhood was described as a town that didn’t have much money nor opportunity. What I learned from Vance was that being a “hillbilly” wasn’t an attitude or simply one’s lifestyle they chose, it's a culture. What they saw, learned, heard and adapted to was generational and it was surrounded all around them. One positive aspect of the hillbilly culture was

In order to build up resilience, a student must learn to support themselves and seek support from others. A student that supports themselves can lead themselves into a better future because they are learning through experience. For example, Lori in The Glass Castle wanted to get out of West Virginia and move to New York. She was tired of living in a house that had no food, no running water, and was falling apart. Lori believed that she could save enough money for herself so that she could go live in New York. Unfortunately, her father took the money that they earned to move to New York. An unexpected opportunity opened up for Jeannette that would get her sister out of West Virginia (Walls 218). They both got jobs to support the destination they were planning to go. This shows that when a student supports themselves they can accomplish the goals that they have set for themselves, like how Lori and

The true meaning of resilience is shown many times in the book Unbroken. Having strong problem-solving skills is what it took Louie and Phil to survive the troubles of beings trapped at sea. The two and Mac faced many challenges and all of them dealt with it differently. They supported each other by communicating and sharing all the food.

In J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, he exposes his audience to all the hard-hitting truths about the lifestyle he was raised in. Calling Middletown, Ohio his childhood hometown, Vance discusses how the instability of families affects the outcome of the lack of success rates for hillbilly children. Both Evicted and Hillbilly Elegy raise awareness for highly looked over issues in America, such as homelessness, addiction, and abuse.

Resilience is defined as the quality that allows people to be knocked down and come back stronger than ever. Resilience is demonstrated throughout the novel Defending Jacob by William Landay, and the ancillary texts “If” by Rudyard Kipling, and “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri though different literary devices. The similar conflicts of Defending Jacob and “Third and Final Continent” help develop a theme of resilience throughout the stories. Another literary device that helps to show this theme in Defending Jacob and “If” is point of view. Finally, the theme is displayed once more in the novel and “Third and Final Continent” through the use of characterization. The theme of keeping one’s head through troubled times and not giving up is developed through the use of conflict, point of view, and characterization in Defending Jacob, “If”, and “The Third and Final Continent”.

Over the years I have received numerous medals and awards for outstanding athletic and academic achievement. Yet, I believe that my most meaningful accomplishment is something completely different: my resilience. Coming from a socially, economically and educationally disadvantaged background I have had to overcome hurdles that many

The book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis was a book that BGSU chose for its students to read as a common read so student could get together and have discussions on how this book might or might not relate to themselves. Although I was half impressed with this book, it did have a lot of positives that came out of it. Hillbilly Elegy was written by J. D. Vance and was published on June 28, 2016, by HarperCollins and has a handful of life learning lessons and situations that were written about which gave me a whole new perspective on how people from different working classes live. The author Vance, tells the true story of what a social,

Just like Phoenix Jackson, this story’s main character, most people find their way through challenges, time after time, because of their strong sense of determination.

In the book “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”, J.D. Vance, a New York Times bestselling author, writes about how a pretty rocky start to life, eventually taught him values which he continues to praise later in life. J.D. was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, where he grew up with Kentucky values from his grandmother and grandfather, who are referred to as Mamaw and Papaw, respectively. As a young boy, his family struggled with poverty and domestic violence. His mother, went through many men and drugs in her life, which had a negative impact in J.D.’s boyhood. Through the support of Mamaw and Papaw, J.D., and his older sister Lindsay, had a chance to change their life for the better, even though they were raised on “hillbilly” values.

Vance’s upbringing was not effortless, and while he did not write this book as a woeful, self-pitying tale, but instead to shed light on the hillbilly culture, I could not help but feel moved by the profound impact Vance’s grandmother had

Hillbilly Elegy Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir of a Family and Culture Crisis written by J.D Vance, about mired in socioeconomic problems, violence, addiction, and poverty. Then telling us his story simultaneously on how his grandparents were the ones to dedicate their livelihood while his parents were victims of poverty and addiction. Helping him succeed in school and join the Marine Corps and graduating from an Ivy league college from growing up in Appalachia, were the hillbilly culture resides inhabited by the millions of white working americans who have been forgotten by the rest of america suffering problems through the decline in manufacturing in the communities which has resulted in many cultural and economic hardships. This book has 261 pages and is

While reading Hillbilly Elegy, a person becomes aware of the many different problems- poverty, drug abuse, alcoholism, and crime- that plague rural communities. Often enough, these issues are only associated with larger cities because the culture of metropolitan and hillbilly communities varies so drastically. In rural communities, the class divide is not always clear based on how Vance describes the deteriorating economy in chapter four, but in cities the contrasts between poor and rich neighborhoods are far more dramatic. This type of society breeds an entirely different way of life. For an example, families in an urban setting are not nearly as close to each other as those found in the country. There are no gun-toting grandparents who are

Harrington's "Where there's a will, there's a way" illustrates the importance of developing a sense of resilience in order to be successful and be a productive member of society. (Harrington, 2012 pg 1). This attitude of resilience has been the only thing that has kept me going up to this point. Daily that spirit allows me to thrive as a student, single mother, employee and business owner.

Lessons to learn There are many valuable lessons we can learn from stories as these such as the real problem of racism and maturing as human being or even having courage to climb above the hard times. Both of these stories have many similarities including their themes. Racism plays a big role in both pieces of literature, and it shows us how cruel the world really is. Then there is the coming of age or maturing of the main characters, all four of the main characters begin in the book as innocent little kids and at the end of both stories, we can see that the characters maturity changes a great amount. Courage also displayed itself in both books, Jem and Scout being courageous and overcoming society and all of its awfulness.