Joan Didion

Play It As It Lays: Life Unscripted Joan Didion writes Play It As It Lays in a satirical way about the Hollywood lifestyle. As it is tantalizing the mind, to think that Hollywood is full of people who have problems of drinking, drug abuse, and sex, which is undeniably happening in the most era of the Hollywood lifestyle since the day one. Fame, success and pouring fortune are hard to handle, practically for anyone who deals with the hazardous lifestyle of Hollywood where relationship does not…

The Negativeness of Culture and Counterculture in the Sixties: Conventionalism vs. Bohemianism in Didion and Shepard’s Ideology The 1960s is a period when new cultural forms arise; it is a time when the traditional roles of women were reevaluated; it is “an era in which the ego ran wild, and the young had a craving for altered states.” As many young people were dissatisfied with the conventionalism — the mainstream American culture after post-World War II, the counterculture emerged in the…

makes. An individual might be convinced that nothing is important and life is devout of any meaning. People with that mindset are one step away from a suicide. Maria, a heroine of Joan Didion’s novel Play It As It Lays, is one such character. She thinks that nothing has any significance and the life is meaningless (Didion 4). All the same, there is always a way out. Poor decisions can be corrected. Maria does not seem to realize that she has control over her life and she acts as if she was just…

I better understood the implications of being American after analyzing Ta Nehisi Coates’s argument that the black male body fuels the “Dream” as it cannot exist without the marginalization of others. While black bodies built today’s America, the “Dream” of a nuclear family with a white picket fence disenfranchises those who instilled its idealization. I expanded my perception of America’s hypocritical identity by relating “Between the World and Me” to Eduardo Galeano’s poem “1492.” Galeano’s…

Through voting, an individual can feel both powerful, and capable of shaping their community, country, and world. Because a person can express their preference when voting, the decision a voter makes can help to direct or elect a group or person who supports their beliefs. In our government, there are two major parties, and a plethora of smaller parties. However, because a person may not always agree with either of the major parties, they still have the option of siding with the smaller parties.…

I am convinced that the topic at hand is of great significance. In fact, as I prepared to draft this article it became clearer to me that this issue is far more paramount than I ever realized. With that stated, it occurred to me that when the question of how life began on our planet is raised, the theory of evolution dominants academia. That is to say, the modern translation of Darwin’s theory of evolution is regarded above all other possible suppositions when pertaining to our academic models.…

once confronted about her money troubles by her mother she lies and tells her everything is ok. hannah is ok with struggling but when times have gotten hard in the past she has always had the option to go back to her parents for help. Just like in Joan Didions peace with her as a young women idolizing NewYork and living in bad conditions but knew if thing ever got too bad she had her parents to fall back on, “I never told my father that I needed money because then he would have sent it, and I…

When is Writing Good? When is writing good? Most people think that there is only one correct answer to that question, and everyone else who says something that differs is wrong automatically. Some people only care about conventions, while others only care about citations. Good writing isn’t necessarily any of those said things, and it can be something total different. I used to believe that writing was really on how well one can literally write. I judged writing on how well individuals used…

theme were, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams, offering a look in to cancer as it is now an epidemic. The second essay was a little dry despite the title "Holy Water," by Joan Didion, I felt while it was universal it did not capture my interest enough to feel the passion spilled on to paper and was a bit confusing to…

should also be required that the abortion clinic is to counsel each patient thoroughly and provide ‘well checks’ throughout the term of pregnancy or 9 months after having an abortion, because both are very harming to the human body. To conclude, Joan Didion 's essay, "On Morality," poses the question, "What is 'right ' and what is 'wrong, ' what is 'good ' and what 'evil '?" (182). In today 's society, often times many people do not even consider this question before taking action. What I…