“Hillbilly Elegy” “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D Vance and “The Boston Photographs” by Nora Ephron are completely different types of writing, but that does not mean you can not tell which writing is better. “Hillbilly Elegy” is better than “The Boston Photographs” because Vance truly knows how to connect with the reader. The way Vance uses different aspects of life to show the reader his train of thought is truly spellbinding. In addition, Vance includes the piece of his life where he had troubles with his mother to truly connect with the reader because many people in the world have a dad or mom who is going through something. Vance’s excerpt is more superior to Ephron’s article because it is something that truly happened in his life that others …show more content…
People can not exactly relate to Ephron’s article because nowadays people’s death is all over the news, social media, or newspaper. Things like death in the newspaper or on the internet is not really a surprise to anyone anymore. Death is a natural thing and people die from all sorts of causes everyday. Another reason why Vance’s excerpt is better because it was recently written. Although Ephron’s article was easier to comprehend, Vance includes more background. Ephron’s article is extremely emotionless when giving background to the …show more content…
Vance tells you about how he comes from a family of addicts. He tells you that he comes from a family of addicts because there are a lot of people in the world, including kids, who have a problem with drugs or alcohol. It is not an uncommon thing nowadays, so Vance does not have a problem with sharing the fact that he comes from people who do drugs. He tells the readers how his social worker did not think he was going to go down a good path due to the fact that he comes from and was raised by addicts. So many kids, some now already adults, can relate to this subject. In addition to family, he also talks about money. Vance says how he once did not even have enough money to pay for one of his college books. Not to mention, he ate Taco Bell all the time. When Vance tells us that he ate Taco Bell almost every night, we interpret that he was poor because he did not have enough money to pay for his own groceries. Vance then goes on to say how he had to get more than two jobs just so that he could keep the apartment. Vance includes that part of his life because so many people have trouble paying bills and rent. To add onto jobs, he then says that he was having trouble paying rent on time. Vance knows that multiple families have trouble with things like paying bills and
The events of March 5, 1770 should and have been remembered as momentous and predictable. Perhaps not the night or city specifically, but the state of affairs in Boston, if not throughout The English Colonies, had declined to the point that British troops found themselves frequently assaulted with stones, dirt, and human feces. The opinions and sentiments of either side were certainly not clandestine. Even though two spectators express clear culpability for the opposing side, they do so only in alteration of detail. The particulars of the event unfold the same nonetheless. The happening at the Custom House off King Street was a catastrophic inevitability. Documents from the Boston Massacre trial, which aid us in observing from totally different perceptions. The depositions of witnesses of the event prove to be useful; an English officer Captain Preston and a colonial Robert Goddard give relatively dissimilar details. In spite of these differences, they still both describe the same state of affairs.
Nora Ephron wrote, “The Boston Photographs” to make her argument about how the media should be able to publish photographs of death. She used the Boston Photographs as her example. The photographs were taken by Stanley Forman. They were of a woman and a child falling from a fire escape. Readers thought the photos were disturbing and should not have been published. The photographs were taken by accident when the photographer thought the woman and child would be rescued. He turned away at the very last split-second before the woman fell to her death. There were a lot of criticism for the published photographs. Ephron thought that the photos were rightfully published and argued that the pictures were irrelevant to the woman 's
In the Fox Valley there has been a growing in a homeless population which is not good. This is happening more and more because how expensive everything is getting. In the story, Make Lemonade, Jolly tells her story about she was homeless for a while and about her teen pregnancy. She had to drop out of school to try to provide for her and her two little ones. During the course of the story Jolly and her family's lifestyle develops because LaVaughn and others were getting more involved in her life to try to get her back on her feet.
Despite having different views on the topic, each essay holds an alike form to one another. Didion tires to evoke emotion from the audience by putting statistical facts of deaths that
On March 5th, 1770 the colonists were going to protest against the British rule because they were being unfair to the colonists, with taxes being passed without the colonists’ approval. The proclamation of 1763 didn’t help stopping people from settling across the Appalachian mountains even though people fought for it. Also each house had to house and feed a soldier. Many other taxes on different items also caused colonists to be angry. Many started to protest one of these protests had the colonists in front of government building with weapons the British soldiers then fired killing five and injuring others. There was not a massacre on March 5, 1770 in Boston because there was not a massacre on March 5, 1770 in Boston because less than ten colonists
I have first hand seen the childish ways of a drug abusing parent and my overall standpoint is everyone has a weakness, you just need to find a light to bring you out of the dark hole which the monster and sends you down and see what's worth living for. “I believe if you want to write a memoir, you have to tell the entire truth (yes, I understand it will be colored by your personal lenses), and that means truly opening yourself and those around you to public inspection” (Par. 15) said Ellen Hopkins displaying that she takes informing teens as a serious role. A prediction i could infer based upon the parallel relationship between Kristina and her father is if her son is exposed to drugs he will most likely fall in the same path if her she does not tell him the danger of these substances. This novel is a great tool to get the word out there that hard drugs will hurt you, hurt your family and make you a whole new
Drugs is one of the themes in this story that shows the impact of both the user and their loved ones. There is no doubt that heroin destroys lives and families, but it offers a momentary escape from the characters ' oppressive environment and serves as a coping mechanism to help deal with the human suffering that is all around him. Suffering is seen as a contributing factor of his drug addiction and the suffering is linked to the narrator’s daughter loss of Grace. The story opens with the narrator feeling ice in his veins when he read about Sonny’s arrest for possession of heroin. The two brothers are able to patch things up and knowing that his younger brother has an addiction. He still buys him an alcoholic drink at the end of the story because, he has accepted his brother for who he really is.
At first he lived with his mom or with his dad both which were struggling to provide Mason Jr. and his sister Samantha the best they can for their children and themselves. As years progressed, Mason Jr. lived with his mother’s boyfriend Jim; a well-off educated college professor that taught his mother’s class at college. After his mother broke-up with Jim due to his drinking and abusiveness she moved into her friend’s house for a small period of time to recuperate and recover. Her friend was an average family, not living lavishly compared to Jim but not at all living like Mason Jr.’s mother struggling to just be able to provide their needs. From watching a child transfer into different economical classes changes the way I view social inequality in society. As you can see how it can affect a child, and youth’s behaviour
The Boston Massacre was a fundamental event at the beginning of the American Revolution. The massacre became part of anti-British propaganda for Boston activists and fed American fears of the English military in both the North and South. The Boston Massacre was the first “battle” in the Revolutionary War. Although it wasn’t until five years after the Boston Massacre that the Revolutionary War officially began, the Boston Massacre was a forecast of the violent storm to come.
drug use, and poverty are very much a part of everyday life. The Contextual model states that along with the organism being active the environment is also active which leads to the interactions with drugs and poverty that we see through this novel which sets the stage for Leonie’s husband being incarcerated for possession of crystal meth and Leonie’s own battles with drug addiction that directly impact her inability to be a competent mother. The environment that Leonie lives in is actively contributing to the outcome of her life. The third assumption of the contextual model is that development can be best described as a spiral path rather than unidirectional. This relates to Leonie’s life journey by certain events in the story that prove that
She opens up her essay by saying “How surprised [Yorick] would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged, and neatly dressed transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.”(Mitford) Funerals are meant to protect people from seeing what kind of toll death has on their loved one; to remove the scars of being human. Kubler-Ross touches on this when she says “The more we are making advancements in science, the more we seem to fear and deny the reality of death. How is this possible? We use euphemisms, we make the dead look as if they were asleep” (Kubler-Ross) which connects to her opinion that death is feared and people take responsibility when a loved one dies, even if they had no impact on their death. The eradication of the sense of death is the key reason why the deceased are embalmed. Clifton Bryant discusses that the reason why people want to have their dead embalmed is because of “death anxiety”, that it is the collective phrase for all the different and complex fears of death. He later states that death anxiety is why we tend to have “death denial” and why we tend to avoid it wholly. “Likewise, the use of metaphors or euphemisms that serve to soften the harshness of death (e.g., passed away, deceased, expired) clearly represents a culturally approved attempt to deny or camouflage death's impact on our daily lives.”(Bryant) This reflects well on the point Mitford makes, when she says “[The funeral director] put on a well-oiled performance in which the concept of death played no part whatsoever” (Mitford) Kubler-Ross feels that death being ever increasingly more taboo the more
While Mama is talking to Walter, she asks him why he always talks about money. "Mama: Oh--So now it's life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life--now it's money. I guess the world really do change . . . Walter: No--it was always money, Mama. We just didn't know about it." Walter thinks that the world revolves around money. He wants to believe that if his family were rich they would have perfect lives. This isn't true though, and Mama knows it. She knows that no matter how much money Walter has, he will never be happy unless he has a family that loves him. Before Walter goes out to invest in the liquor store he has a talk with his son. "Walter: You wouldn't understand yet, son, but your daddy's gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that's going to change our lives. . . ." Walter thinks that this transaction will make their lives better. What he doesn't realize is that he already has a good life and he doesn't need more money to make him happy. He should be grateful for what he has instead of worrying about money.
These two thought provoking stories take widely separate approaches on the idea of death. One being
Many people find it hard to imagine their death as there are so many questions to be answered-how will it happen, when, where and what comes next. The fact that our last days on Earth is unknown makes the topic of death a popular one for most poets who looks to seek out their own emotions. By them doing that it helps the reader make sense of their own emotions as well. In the two poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, the poets are both capturing their emotion about death and the way that they accepted it. In Dickenson’s poem her feelings towards death are more passionate whereas in Dylan’s poem the feelings
I was very excited to take Death and Dying as a college level course. Firstly, because I have always had a huge interest in death, but it coincides with a fear surrounding it. I love the opportunity to write this paper because I can delve into my own experiences and beliefs around death and dying and perhaps really establish a clear personal perspective and how I can relate to others in a professional setting.