Life likes to throw challenges and different obstacles at you to show you how much you can really accomplish. J.D. Vance proved that in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Vance walks you through what his life was like growing up surrounded by a violent family. Vance has a family that many kids in Huntington, WV can relate too, me being one of them. I related to this novel in many ways, like Vance, I grew up around drugs, violence and poverty. The feeling Vance has for Jackson, OH, it is the same feeling I have for Branchland, WV. In the part of Branchland that my family comes from, to someone who doesn’t know and love the place, they’d only see a bunch of dirty hicks living in broken down homes. To me, it’s so much more than that. When I was a young
