As the United States grows in technology and cultures continue to mix, Americans are continuing to only focus on the big news, such as the newest iPad coming out or the violence going on around the country. J.D. Vance writes in his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, how little people know about his type of people yet how many people are just like them. He discusses how their daily life is, how it changes throughout his childhood to how he is still affected by it in his adult years. Though his book is modern and discusses people who are living in today’s world, the reader can find many similarities to American Literature in the past, even literature as different as poetry. There are many things that came be related in many poems from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “Alone”, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s My Lost Youth and The Skeleton in Armor, and Phillis Wheatley’s On Being Brought from Africa to America.
Vance experienced loneliness in much of his childhood, despite the fact that he was surrounded by family. He discusses how he felt trapped, with no one to go to for help or even to live with (121). He knew that there was many options …show more content…
Vance lived a very different life than most Americans, surrounded by loneliness, his youth, religion, and loss. Though his book is modern, it relates back to many experiences and thoughts American poets had in the past with similar themes. Though the life of a hillbilly has struggles, Vance displays the book to the reader so that they can relate to it in their own life and think about how other relate to it as well.This book also helps the reader realize how different Americans lives can be, separated by class and region of the country, forcing the reader to realize what is important in all aspects of all people’s lives. American society sets a status for people to live up to, making good decisions to help people ride to success, putting people higher than previous generations
Vance experienced loneliness in much of his childhood, despite the fact that he was surrounded by family. He discusses how he felt trapped, with no one to go to for help or even to live with (121). He knew that there was many options …show more content…
Vance lived a very different life than most Americans, surrounded by loneliness, his youth, religion, and loss. Though his book is modern, it relates back to many experiences and thoughts American poets had in the past with similar themes. Though the life of a hillbilly has struggles, Vance displays the book to the reader so that they can relate to it in their own life and think about how other relate to it as well.This book also helps the reader realize how different Americans lives can be, separated by class and region of the country, forcing the reader to realize what is important in all aspects of all people’s lives. American society sets a status for people to live up to, making good decisions to help people ride to success, putting people higher than previous generations