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| Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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| Almos a Man, Native Son, Black Boy |
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| Books of William Faulkner |
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| Barn Burning, The sound of Fury, As I lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom- Absalom, The Hamlet |
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| (1909-1960) Black american novelist best known in this country and abroad. |
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| influenced the writing of Ralph ellison, and james baldwin |
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| born in natchaz mississippi, the son of a share cropper, entirely self educated. |
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| read widely on his own, but strongly influenced by writers who stressed the importance of a person's environment |
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| Had a series of menial jobs throughout the Depression |
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| central themes involve the tension of being black in a white society. |
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| Attempted passage into manhood |
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| Born in Niles Michigan, on march 6, 1885 |
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| graduated from highschool then worked a series of odd jobs till 1906 |
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| graduated from highschool then worked a series of odd jobs till 1906 |
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| began writing for the South Bend Times in Indiana |
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| superb era for colloquial speech |
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| well known for his sports writing |
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| keen eye for vivid detail |
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| first developed as a journalist |
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| blends biting satire of our foibles with a humorous and compassionate understanding of them |
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| stories explore human relationships, values in a colloquially rich, iidiomatic American English, their ever-present comic note ranging from feather-duster light to dark laughter |
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| Educated at home and in small Southern convent schools |
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| became a reporter in 1921 |
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| robert penn watten cited many of her stores and being unsurpassed in modern fiction |
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| major characters are often women whose ideailstic values are challenged by life's brutality |
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| welcomes the external demands of life as a way of helping her forget her broken dreams |
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| The Collected Stories of Katerine Anna Porter |
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| work compensate for grief and loss |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weather All |
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| Key to adulthood (possession or achievement?) |
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| Taking and accepting the consequences of one's actions |
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| conflict with family and community |
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| facing or running away from problems |
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| comming to terms with one's past |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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Born in 1933 on a plantation in rural louisiana |
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| 15 when he moved to California and read voraciously there and started writing |
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| His fiction are set in rural Louisiana, and much is based on |
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| one of only a few black writers portraying life in the rural South from a black point of view |
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| Autbiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
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| First Encounter with the world |
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| Reactions to race and poverty-prejudice |
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| pride,self-respect, survival |
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| (1876-1941) grew up in Clyde Ohio |
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| left home at the age of fourteen |
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| returned to his native state and established a successful career in advertising and manufacturing. |
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| left both his family and his job in 1912 at the age of 36 to embark on a literary career in Chicago |
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| became one of the best-known chronicalers of American small-town life |
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| short stories do not depend on click plost contrived ending, but exemplify and kind of literature he felt was truer |
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| tried to write about ordinary people the way they really are behind the repectable / glib facade they present in public |
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| wrote about people who were confused and looking for answers |
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| try to get some of the basic problems that defeat and frustrate people |
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| had kind of humor that makes us smile at people rather than laugh at them |
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| cycle of stories Wines Burg Ohio (1919) |
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| adolescent strugging to find his adult identity |
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| painful process of learning about one's self |
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| actions motivated by feelings and aspirations |
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| first romantic experience as test of social acceptability |
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| Born in Viriginia in 1873 |
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| said one's strongest emoetions and one's most vivid mental pictures are acquired before one is fifteen |
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| moved to nebraska when she was 9 spent her years on the prairies of nebraska |
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| home schooled spent free time outdoors |
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| when to school at University of Nebraska. Then moved to pittsburgh |
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| In pittsburgh she was a drama critic and high school english teacher |
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| eventually moved to New York City where she was the editor in chief of McClure's Magazine |
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| Roots remained in Nebraska of this she had to write |
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| Influenced strongly by her familys pioneer farming existence |
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| wrote simply and truthfully |
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| contrast between the hard, isolated pioneer life and the world of art, whiche answers yearnings of a more romantic vision of life, informed much of her work |
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| Dealing with conflicts in school and at home |
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| conformity versus individuality |
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| (1897-1962) Born in Albany , Mississippi |
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| voracious reader as a student |
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| served with canadian air foce in WWI |
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| stories for an extended sage tracing the adventures of variety of charactores from the fictional Yoknaptawpha county in mississippi |
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| wrote about south baught between its past and the present |
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characters fall into 3 catagories: Those who merely accept lifes tragedies
Those who cannot accept them, but lack moral strength to fight back
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| Published 19 novels, several dozen short stories, two volumes of poems, a play and some occasional non-fiction |
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| awarded Nobel prize in 1950 |
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| said "only thing worth writing about was the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself" |
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| Eudora Welty a fellow mississippian wrote about him "no man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word" |
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| father and son relationship |
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| Born in Oak Park Illinois |
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| started career as writer in the newspaper office in Kansas City |
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| volunteered as ambulance unit in the Italian Army. Wound in the front |
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| The Beautiful and the Damned |
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