Geoffrey Wolff

Deception, Geoffrey Wolff took on the task of justifying the lies that created a barrier between family, friends, and the general public. His memories from his childhood are disturbing, jaw-dropping, and tangled with guilt. The memoir begins with Geoffrey Wolff learning of his father’s death in 1970. With this knowledge, Wolff revealed the enigma that was his father to himself, and the readers. The book overall is part of a memoir, autobiography, and even part biography for Arthur Samuel (Duke)…

Through This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff explores the... Whilst growing up without a father can have a detrimental effect on a teenage boy, more importantly knowing that one’s father is alive, and yet indifferent to his son, can be devastating. As Jack’s biological father, Arthur Wolff is almost completely absent from his life. Growing up without a father created a huge sense of insecurity within Jack, who spends much of his teenage years imagining random strangers as his father: “Sometimes…

in themselves. The traditional American family is viewed as having a mom, a dad, and children. In the 1950s, these views were very important to everyone. If you didn’t fit into this tradition, then you weren’t a part of the realm of normal. Tobias Wolff and his mother, Rosemary, were no different from everyone else. Throughout the book, they searched in the wrong people and traveled across the states to try to become the traditional American family. That is until they became one of many who…

Alice Walker this book does not have any chapters called chapters. instead of chapters it has very big chapters with kind of like their own titles. An example of that is like this chapter title “Citizenship in the home”(219). I believe that Tobias Wolff writes the story like this because every big chapter focuses on what the title of the chapter is saying. Like in the chapter “Citizenship in the home” the story tells the reader about Toby the main character trying to find his own place in his…

This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff Set in the post-World-War Two era, in the mid 1950s, the central character Toby and his mother leave Sarasota, Florida for Utah with the eager and ambitious plans to become economically prosperous, on uranium. Toby changes his Christian name to Jack, after Jack London as he feels it will charge him with “strength and competence,” and these acts are done also out of spite and betrayal to his father, as they were abandoned. He feels unworthy of his life and feels too…

Have you ever noticed how some books have the same implications? How some of the novel may be the same? Like The Lottery and The Hunger Games, these two have entirely different circumstances but one makes you ponder the other. The Hunger Games and The Lottery are very alike in themes, but are very different in their storylines. The author of The Lottery, Shirley Jackson, got her idea from the town she lived in when writing the story. She admits that the town gave her the idea, “It is in North…