Analysis Of You Re A Good Man, By Pam Houston

This is the book authored by Pam Houston. The book provides the heart storming prose and amazing observations about the journey, which is done in order to find life filled with freedom and love. The narrator of the book is stuck in a dead end relationship and wants to find comfort. So she finds it in air. She travels around the world in order to find new love and freedom. She travel to different destinations and meet different people.

She flies to different parts of the world, from Alaska to Bhutan and find dozens of way to love life in a better way. The book provides the great insight behind the development of the characters and mainly the main character; the protagonist. The characters and their relationship start with the tension in the

There is always a struggle for loving one’s self; there is always pain in loving others and there is always some power that heals. The power of healing is set in the motifs of myriad healers and body workers in contrast to the enthusiastic tirelessness of her traveling. A heavily accented psychic masseuse, tells Pam “You are always so hateful toward your body, but you can’t be who you are without zis body” in Sedona, Arizona (Houston 217). A stranger in Provincetown, Massachusetts, also tells Pam as he jogs by: “You’re a good person... It’s all going to be okay” and we get the sense that even the strongest people need to hear that once in awhile (Houston 120). The readers get the sense that even the strongest people need to hear some good words every once in a while to get healed and grow. This is also an inspiration for Pam that in the end everything will be fine, and what one needs is to grow and stay

Though the readers do not get the mothering vibes from Pam, but mothering here may refer to Gertrude Stein, who was the mother of the modern poetry and Pam is also modern in her sense of living and getting to life.

Author Pam Houston wants to display through this novel or through Character of Pam that she is the mother of doing or rather of action. Pam is the person, who could be the role model, a person who can get out of worse situations, and stops complaining about life and goes on with what comes around. Thus the significant shift in the character of Pam can be seen.

Furthermore, she was complaining about herself and her life in the beginning of the novel. She had questions about her suffering. She had complexities with her relationships and could not find an answer that why all that was happening with her. But now she had stopped complaining and just going with the flow of life. The readers will find immense shift in the character development of