IH 0852 Lecture 37: mosaics notes 11/29

• School: Temple University
• Department: Intellectual Heritage
• Course: IH 0852
• Professor: David E.Racker

Document Summary

Memoir vs open letter (hillbilly elegy) memoir (between a world and me) open letter -non-fiction-to express protest grievances, wishes dissent and/or dreams. A fair shot at the american dream (vance) A fair shot at the american dream (coates) Later i (cid:449)ould hear it i(cid:374) dad"s (cid:448)oi(cid:272)e (cid:862)either i (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)eat hi(cid:373) or the poli(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:894)16(cid:895) A year after i watched the boy with the small eyes pull out a gun, my father beat me for letting another boy steal from me. Two years later he beat me for threatening my ninth- grade teacher. Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. (28) But like at least one third of all students who came to howard, prince was tired of having to represent to other people (141)