1. Mary Hood’s first collection of stories is titled How Far She Went (1984), and her second collection was entitled And Venus is Blue (1986). These stories have been reprinted in textbooks. She also pubished a novella called Seam Busters and then later published another collection of stories entitled A Clear View of the Southern Sky. In 1995, Hood published a novel, Familiar Heat, and later published an extensive essay on Northwest Georgia in The New Georgia Guide (1996).
2. The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story says of Hood’s work, “Fifteen of the sixteen stories in her two short story collections are set in the past three decades in Georgia, reflecting the natural and the asphalt landscape.” Hood’s first collection, How Far She Went, was published to acclaim in 1984. Next, her story “Something Good for Ginnie” in the Fall 1985 issue of The Georgia Review. And Venus Is Blue (1986), Hood’s second short-story collection, won both the biennial Townsend Prize for the best fictional work by a Georgian and the Southern Regional Council’s Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction, and that year Hood was named Georgia Author of the Year by the Dixie
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Judson Mitcham’s poetry has appeared in journals such as the Chattahoochee Review, Harper’s, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, New England Review, and Southern Review. In 2007, Perkolator Press published Heart of All Greatness, a limited edition letterpress featuring Mitcham’s poems. The New York Times described his second novel, Sabbath Creek, as a “spare, lovely novel” that is “generous in humor yet anchored in sorrow and interspersed with portents of tragedy.” A reviewer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said “Mitcham has an affinity for people on the margins of life and an ability to look at their lives and see the threads common to us all.” He is the only author to win the Townsend Prize for Fiction
In the beginning of The Secret Garden, Mary is the daughter of two wealth parents who are neglectful. Mary is surround by servants who comply to her every whim. Mary’s parents die from a sickness and leave her to live with her uncle and cousin. Her cousin Colin has a childhood similar to Mary. Colin’s mother dies shortly after he was born and his father became neglectful as well. Both of the children are physically ill due lack of physical activity and neglected. After both are introduced to each other, Mary and Collin start spending a significant amount of time in a garden, tending to the plants. While spending more time together, both Mary and Colin establish as friendship and begin to become healthier. The beginning of The Secret Garden
Purcell, Kim. "Olive Ann Burns." The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Ed Hugh Ruppersburg. Athens: U of Georgia, 2013. 53-55. Print.
Although I wish to assume Barbara Brown Taylor’s intentions here are admirable, I find A Tale of Two Heretics adds to the anti-Jewish negativity rather than detracts from it. Throughout the rest of her sermon, she seemingly presents the Pharisees as legalizers who are incapable of witnessing God’s covenantal plan. Firstly, she does so by presenting the Pharisees as callous individuals who are less concerned with the healing of the blind man and more concerned with the blind man’s potential sin. Taylor juxtaposes the Pharisees inquisition with the blind man’s miraculous healings with the result being the blind man’s expulsion from the community. Taylor represents the Pharisees as arrogant, blind leaders who deem the former blind man to be a
Engel, Mary Ella. “The Appalachian “Granny”: Testing the Boundaries of Female Power in Late-19th-Century Appalachian Georgia.” Appalachian Journal 37.3/4 (2010): 210-225 Literary Reference Center. Web. 14 Nov. 2013.
Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 163-67. Print.
Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2004. Print.
Furthermore, there are several occurrences of the harm against women in regards to Mrs. Dempster. She undergoes a stark change in personality after being hit with the snowball, described by the denizens of Deptford as having “gone simple”. One of Mary Dempster’s most shocking acts after the fact is when she is found having sex with a tramp (later revealed to have been done in order to restore his faith). Her husband, Amasa, decides that Mary is too much of a burden to him and ties her to chair, making her unable to leave her home. Despite this, the young Dunny does not think of Mary as a burden, in fact referring to her as his “greatest friend”. He keeps her up to date on the goings-on in Deptford, he prides her on her fearlessness. He knows
In literature, a dynamic character changes significantly as a result of events, conflicts, or other forces. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Mary Warren, the young servant of the Proctor’s is a dynamic character. Throughout the play, Mary’s personality takes a turn for the better. At the beginning of the play, Mary is shy, timid girl who hides in the shadows of Abigail Williams and lets people walk all over her. As the play develops, Mary realizes that what Abigail is doing isn’t right and rebels against Abby. Instead of following Abby, she follows in the footsteps of John Proctor to bring justice to the girl’s accusing innocent people of witchcraft.
Tate, Linda. "No Place Like Home": Learning to Read Two Writers' Maps // A Southern Weave of Women. Fiction of the Contemporary South. The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia & London, 1994
Baym, Nina, and Robert S. Levine. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Print.
In Mary Hoods “How Far She Went” A grandmother struggles with the burden of experience, loss and a life of unsparing decisions; where a girl strives to live in a naïve and free spirited illusion. The paths of a grandmother and her granddaughter soon collide when experience and naivety rendezvous on a dirt road in the south. “How Far She Went” illustrates how generational struggles and contretemps can mold people and predispose their lives and the way
Hood, with the same talent of, Banks, examines the complexity of life and the relationships that form and describe unhappy people. The two stories show the reality in how young people become rebellious but could change their attitude towards their loved ones if they want so. In The Role of The Bone, Boon is falling apart and even worse when he feels nothing at all. In “How Far She Went” by Mary Hood, we see the struggle between the young girl and her grandmother. The girl is searching for herself and developed as the story progressed. The two characters never get along. Obviously, The girl runs off because she was kept in her grandmother’s house without her will. “ I could turn this whole house over, dump it! Leave you slobbering over that
Hawthorne, N. (2008). Young Goodman Brown. In S. Belasco, & L. Johnson, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature (pp. 987-996). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's .
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid demonstrate how a mother cautions her daughter, in becoming a responsible woman in her society. Although the daughter hasn’t gotten into adolescence yet, the mother fears that her daughter’s current behavior, if continued, will tip to a life of promiscuity. The mother believes that a woman’s status or propriety determines the quality of her life in the community. Hence, gender roles, must be carefully guarded to maintain a respectable front. Her advice centers on how to uphold responsibility. The mother cautions her daughter endlessly; emphasising on how much she wants her to realize her role in the society by acting like woman in order to be respected by the community and the world at large. Thus, Jamaica Kincaid’s
The feeling of not being heard or not being allowed to do what you want is placed upon women in the 1930s. Harper Lee’s depiction of women, in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird, is they should be able to have an important voice in society, make changes they feel are important, and do certain actions without conforming to gender normalities.