The novel, All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg, has 42 chapters and is divided into three parts. The prologue in the beginning sets the setting and his motives for writing this book. The first part is about his childhood, the second part is when he left for New York to work as a journalist, and the third part is about getting even with life.
Chapters 1-4:
Bragg first begins by describing that his parents were born in the Appalachians mountains and he was born in the summer of 1959. His father had a murderous temper who beated his mother and abandoned his family regularly, which was the reason he developed a hatred toward him.
During his final years, he asked to see his “favorite,” Rick, and he tried to act like a father by discussing about his time in the …show more content…
He bought a fancy, big house on a hill near her kinfolks. She was amused by it and was thankful for the heater, cooler, lights, TV and doorbell and all the other things she could not afford before.
He differentiated him to his dad by stating that he got all the luck. He wished that his father was alive to see his wife living in her house. He used the coldness, meanness, anger and the hatred of responsibility like his father to help him succeed rather than “spraying it out.”
Chapters 41-42:
Sam and Mark came to visit their mother in her new home, but the two sons started fighting with each other when they met. Sam was protecting Mark from his mother who was a little drunk and would make his mother worried. And Mark was fighting back because he felt like he was being pushed out. By Thanksgiving, Sam and the mother were getting along better.
His mother would sometimes go to her old house just to remember the old memories.
Rick met a woman who was inspired by him because she was also poor and was living on the government’s welfare programs. She learned not to be ashamed of her background. Rhetorical Analysis:
Chapters 1-4:
Bragg first begins by describing that his parents were born in the Appalachians mountains and he was born in the summer of 1959. His father had a murderous temper who beated his mother and abandoned his family regularly, which was the reason he developed a hatred toward him.
During his final years, he asked to see his “favorite,” Rick, and he tried to act like a father by discussing about his time in the …show more content…
He bought a fancy, big house on a hill near her kinfolks. She was amused by it and was thankful for the heater, cooler, lights, TV and doorbell and all the other things she could not afford before.
He differentiated him to his dad by stating that he got all the luck. He wished that his father was alive to see his wife living in her house. He used the coldness, meanness, anger and the hatred of responsibility like his father to help him succeed rather than “spraying it out.”
Chapters 41-42:
Sam and Mark came to visit their mother in her new home, but the two sons started fighting with each other when they met. Sam was protecting Mark from his mother who was a little drunk and would make his mother worried. And Mark was fighting back because he felt like he was being pushed out. By Thanksgiving, Sam and the mother were getting along better.
His mother would sometimes go to her old house just to remember the old memories.
Rick met a woman who was inspired by him because she was also poor and was living on the government’s welfare programs. She learned not to be ashamed of her background. Rhetorical Analysis: