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Alice Munro

wrote "Boys and Girls" and was raised on a farm in Ontario, Canada during WWII and the great depression

"Boys and Girls" author and characters

- Alice Munro


-Laird is the brother


-Flora is one horse


-Hired Man is Henry Bailey


- Male horse is Mack

Toni Morrison

wrote "Recitatif" and was born in Lorain, Ohio and was the first one in her family to go to college (Still writes today). Also, she was the first African American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

"Recitatif" author and characters and some details

-Toni Morrison


- Twyla and Roberta


-First Encounter was in St. Bonny's orphanage


- Second Encounter was Eight years later in the 60's (resent each other's lives)


-Third Encounter - 20 years after St. Bonny's they meet in a grocery store. Roberta is rich and Twyla is lower middle class.


- Fourth Encounter in Newburgh, NY and they protest for opposite causes about bus integration


- Fifth Encounter - coffee shop on Christmas Eve ending on an unresolved note.

Eudora Welty

Wrote "Why I Live at the P.O." and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi.

"Why I live at the P.O."

-Eudora Welty


- Papa-Daddy (Grandfather)


-Sister Stella-Rondo


- Uncle Rondo


- Mr. Whitaker is Stella Rondo's baby daddy.


-Mama

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and details

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman


- John is husband and physician


- Jennie is John's sister and housekeeper


- Gilman Experienced this situation aka "The Rest Cure"

William Faulkner

wrote "A Rose for Emily" and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He left high school w/o graduating and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

wrote "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children" and born in Aracataca, Columbia and was a journalist in Latin America.

Flannery O'Connor

wrote "A Good Man is Hard to Find", "Good Country People" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and grew up in Savannah, Georgia and style of writing is called Southern Gothic

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

- Flannery O'Connor


-Grandmother


-Bailey who is the son of Grandmother


- Misfit is the criminal


-Mother


-June star is daughter

"Good Country People"

-Flannery O'Connor


- Hulga or Joy


- Manley Pointer


- Mrs. Hopewell


- Mrs. Freeman

"Everything That Rises Must Converge"

-Flannery O'Connor


- Julian Chestny


- Julian's Mother


- Little Black boy Carver