Hillbilly

Jarl Erik looked over his papers with an angry look. "Felix why are we losing money!" Erik yelled at his steward. "Sir the harvest wasn't good because of the raiders from the east valley, so we didn't have a good trade this year" Felix said in a quivering voice. Felix never liked it when his master got mad because it alway ended bad. "Well then it looks like we need more money so this month we will charge them a 1/4 more than usual" said Erik. "But sir the harvest means the people don't have that much money to give." Said Felix. "To bad they should learn to defend them selves" Erik said in a stern voice. 4 months later after the taxes doubled Halt sat at the breakfast table as Will his partner made breakfast. "What do the reports say" said Will, "anything that needs dealt with." "No, but something is interesting the taxes in the Treylof fief have doubled in the past months." Said halt. Will had always noticed that Halt was dispassionate even in the happiest or saddest moment he never cried or smiled. That day the two Rangers went to talk to the baron of the fief. They wanted to know what was going on in the Treylof fief. When they got to the castle they went straight to the barons personnel quarters. When they got their they knocked and entered. "Oh hello Will hello Halt. What do you need, I have a meeting soon so it needs to be quick." Said baron Roland. "We need to ask you about the increased taxes in the Treylof region. It seems that it's doubled in the past four months"…

The topic I chose to describe is white working class people and the excerpt I read comes from J.D. Vance who wrote Hillbilly Elegy. Vance wrote this story to shed light on how poverty and social class can also affect working class white people and how he rose from the ashes to “have a nice job, a happy marriage, a comfortable home, and two lively dogs.” This is a story about achieving the American Dream even when events are not go for your favor. However, Vance accomplished his dream of going…

in life so he didn't end up like the other people around him. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis was written as a way to share his life experiences, motivate others who are in a similar situation, and explain why so many of the people are mistrusting of the government and in turn decided they wanted a change of pace through Donald Trump. Hillbilly Elegy came out on June 28th 2016 right in the midst of the election cycle and at the end of the Primaries where both…

Many people have heard the terms “Hillbilly” and “Redneck” and had laughed at jokes and stories about them or have just thought the jokes were just mean and not funny at all. The problem with any jokes about a group of people is that they are stereotyping that group without knowing what that group of people really is. Many stereotypes are made to put a whole group of people down by overgeneralize each person in that group. The stereotype of the ‘Hillbilly” and “Redneck” are referring to the…

Marca Kaplar Longer Paper #1 Hillbilly Elegy, Trump and the Death of a Culture President Trump's appeal to the culture, identity, and ideology of the often forgotten working class people was successful by simply allowing a group of disenfranchised, forgotten, and loyal citizens the capability for the hopes and belief that they can be great again. Through the promise of “Making America Great Again,” he sparked a fire in many who have gone from a level of wealth that to them allowed for a very…

American dream. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, is his personal journey of upward mobility. Hillbilly Elegy portrays the lives of the white, working class of Appalachian America, and the struggle for those in the working…

my name, I mostly think of pink lemonade. To me my name feels smooth, like strawberry sorbet. None of the people who’ve given me nicknames could comprehend how my name feels to me. Maybe that’s a thing only I can gain a full perspective on, which makes it unique and personal. With this being said, Madi Decker gave me the nickname “Elbear” the beginning of sophomore year. I and my friends don’t really know how or why it happened, she just started calling me that and it caught on. Personally, I…

“Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” is filled with insight and unique observations into the life of, “hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash,” as experienced by author J.D. Vance as, “neighbors, friends and family” (Vance 3). The insights that Vance details in his book provide an important look into the economic inequality that exist in America, the importance of self-determination and the people who influence it, and the importance of where we come and how it affects…

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…

Best selling author, JD Vance, came to campus to discuss his book Hillbilly Elegy. He was able to further explain the motives behind the this election’s key demographic: the white, working class. As an individual from lower class Kentucky/ Ohio, Vance went to school at Yale Law and was able to experience different side of economic classes within society. Vance discussed the fact that even though he had moved beyond his original lower class, he was still not able to fully assimilate within a…