Analysis Of Kim Barnes In The Wilderness Coming Of Age In Unknown Country

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After reading Kim Barnes In the Wilderness Coming of Age In Unknown Country, the title adds to the memoir. The story highlights Barnes living in northern Idaho and experiencing a rather life and enjoying the outdoors. Nevertheless, conflict arises when her father loses his job as a logger and becomes a trucker which he then joins a Pentecostal church. To get back to the point, I believe that the title does work with the memoir. In addition to this, the title has the ability to stand alone which doesn’t happen on the regular basis. To put it differently, the title told me as the reader, about the memoir before I even opened the book which was something I admired about Barnes title choice.

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