Elegy

to make the mass destruction of war meaningful or acceptable”(Sanchez-Pardo). Like many of the soldiers, Owen was anti-war. He was tired of seeing soldiers die and citizens making it sound like a heroic thing. Wilfred based his poems off: “Tragedy, Elegy, and War”(Sanchez-Pardo). He refused to write about patriotism and heroism because that was not what war was, it’s only what it is made out to be. In one of his poems, Owen tells a horrifying experience of how he helplessly watched a soldier die…

This paper will focus on critiquing the book Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. I will point out the positives and negatives about the book, in relation to the material learned from the class. The Hillbilly Elegy book is a memoir of a family and a culture in a crisis situation, dealing with the problem of living in a poverty-stricken Appalachian region. Vance uses his own family as the case study for his story about the hillbilly, country culture. The author J.D. Vance did a great job with this…

will deconstruct two types of entertainment, poems and movies bring them together to compare. The deconstruction will describe and elaborate on the technics that the director and poet used to convey a similar message and or intention. In the poem Elegy for a Dying Culture written by Johnson Adeniyi, the message is the destruction of a culture. The aspects of weakness and corruption all come to a message that the white man is killing a culture; this message of a destroyed culture is also seen in…

Joshua Rothman, The New Yorkers archive editor, who typically writes about books and ideas, discusses the novel, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, written by J.D. Vance, in the article, “The Lives of Poor White People,” to articulate his political views on poverty. Rothman aims to draw in an audience interested in politics, as well as the less-often discussed white poor people, in order to persuade the audience to agree with his political views. His views are focused…

In Marilyn Chin’s “Elegy for Chloe Nguyen (1955-1988),” she speaks about the life of her friend that has passed away at the age of 33. She compares their lives side by side, with Chin growing up poor and Nguyen growing up wealthy. Both women grew up in a similar cultural background, but a different class background. It’s almost as if Chin admired how intelligent and well-rounded Nguyen appeared to be, despite Nguyen experiencing moods of emptiness throughout her life. As the poem progresses,…

childhood as he wrote the 2016 Memoir; Hillbilly Elegy. Vance who is an ex marine, Ohio University graduate and a Yale University graduate, never thought he would make it past high school. Vance’s book Hillbilly elegy is entirely relevant to America’s youth because many need to be educated on the subject of poverty. The book also gives a light of hope to students that are struggling in school and at home similar to Vance’s experience. Hillbilly Elegy focuses on the poverty that consumed the…

On Milton’s Treatment of the Poet in Elegy VI Milton identifies two archetypes of poetry in Elegy VI: poetry which flows “out if the wine jar itself”, inspiring dancing, revelry and mirth; and that which flows from pensive sages who drink of sacred water and eat of innocent herbs, satiating their chaste bodies with the only the purest of substances. Milton clearly allies himself with the chaste poets, both in this poem and elsewhere, yet he isn’t as explicitly derisive towards the sumptuous…

the sonnet “Bored” portrays the regret and remembrance a young daughter has for her deceased father and shows how she realizes being bored with her father is better than not having his presence at all. Unlike the poem “Bored,” Natasha Trethewey’s “Elegy” takes…

Hillbilly elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (J.D.Vance,2016), is a part autobiography and part of social issues around J.D. Vance. He is a real-world “rags to riches” success story, which many dream of achieving. Many refer to it as the American Dream. He explains how he escaped poverty while people near areas of Appalachia still remained in poverty. Poverty and substance abuse are the chief reasons why the American Dream is out of the reach of many “hillbillies” or rural, white…

Everyone has different experiences in life and goals to meet. In the book Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance it illustrates how it is possible to succeed no matter your circumstances or background. Several factors in the industrial organizational psychology field, along with the book are very well described in realistic situations and events that give you a better understanding of the terms and ideas in industrial psychology. Not many think they can accomplish their goals, or find it to hard to…