The document is written by Meridel Le Sueur about her personal feelings about the female aspects of the “Great Depression.” When discussing the “March” she clearly stated that there were many women who felt the same as she did about marching with strikers about industrial jobs. The feeling Meridel Le Sueur had was that of fear, confusion, individuality, and hypocrisy of the state and federal government. The questions that Le Sueur raises are clear due to the philosophy of the United States which
Stephen King is one of the most respected and well known men to ever write horror stories, behind Edgar Allen Poe of course. Stephen King is very famous all around the world for his novels such as It, Halloween, Carrie, The Shining, Pet Cemetery, as well as another amazing fifty-nine other novels. I have only read three of Kings books, Carrie, Pet Cemetery, and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which I have selected for my book report. Personally The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was my least favorite,
sometimes even their numerous children. Instead of sticking by their wives, daughters, and mothers, men would neglect them. As Meridel Le Sueur, a female American author who wrote Women on the Breadlines, puts it, “Hard times and the man leaves to hunt for work. He doesn’t find it. He drifts on . . . She isn’t surprised. She struggles alone to feed the many mouths,”(Sueur). This abandonment left the women feeling humiliated and pressured to find employment to avoid
Meridel Le Sueur writes in “The Ancient People and the Newly Come”, “The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. We were marked by the seasonal body of earth, by the terrible migrations of people, by the swift turn of a century, verging on change never before experienced on this greening planet.” Jane Smiley includes this as a preceding quote to A Thousand Acres. Whether or not this quote was intentional, Sueur’s words articulate the character development