Eudora Welty Research Paper

Annie Jean Easley was born on April 23, 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents were Samuel Bird Easley and Mary Melvina Hoover. She and her older brother were raised by their single mother. Although Annie grew up in the segregated south, her mother made sure that she had an excellent education. She attended private schools and eventually graduated high school as class valedictorian.

When the colonies were being established in the United States, there were struggles between white colonists and the Native Americans already living there. Mary Musgrove helped this improve this situation when Georgia was being founded in the seventeenth century. Her blended background gave her skills that helped her bridge both groups. Born in 1700 in South Carolina, Mary Musgrove 's original name was Cousaponakeesa. Her father was white and worked as a trader.

Ella Fitzgerald, also known as “The First Lady of Song” or “Lady Ella”, was an extraordinary singer highly known in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Virginia then moving to New York, Ella grew up during the 1920s and got her breakthrough in the early 1930s. She joined an orchestra and produced her first number one single, A-Tisket, A-Tasket. Ella’s contributions to the Harlem Renaissance included not only her songs, but her appearances in movies such as. Ella Fitzgerald is shaped into the woman that she once was through her background, accomplishments, challenges and hardships; she also leaves a legacy that would continue on to influence many generations to come.

Her next book was Rumble fish which was published in 1975 it was the shortest novel she had published and it received a lot of contrasting opinions. Some saying that they believed it would be the last book hinton wrote. Little did they know hinton would soon write another smashing hit book One of last books that the iconic s.e hinton would write was tex. It was one of her most raved about books.

Jane Long had a rough start of life but a great ending that changed the history of Texas for good. Jane Long was born on July 23, 1798 as the tenth child of her big family. Jane’s father, Capt. William Mackall, fought in the revolutionary war before she was born but died in 1799. In 1811 her mother, Ann Herbert Wilkinson, moved their family to Mississippi but died soon after in 1812 making Jane an orphan at age 14.

Human nature is the general traits and characteristics shared by all humans. Human nature drives the feeling of unconditional love, doing things unconditionally for those you love. This representation of human nature is shown clearly throughout the stories, The First Seven Years, by Bernard Malamud, and A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty. The authors of these two short stories show the human nature of how love influences people to perform unconditional actions out of love for the ones they care for most. In The First Seven Years, the author, Bernard Malamud, tells the story of a poor shoemaker, Feld, who makes his life goal for his daughter to get the education he was unable to.

Eudora Welty was an American novelist whose books centered around the American South. Welty is famously known for her book, The Optimist 's Daughter, which she earned a pulitzer prize for in 1973. In Welty’s memoir, “One Writer’s Beginnings” she reminisces on her childhood memories during the early 1900s in Jackson, Mississippi. Her memoir focuses on her early life with reading and the impact it had on her life. The intensity and value of Welty’s early experiences with reading and books is displayed through her descriptions of the librarian, Mrs. Calloway, her own experiences with reading, and the descriptions of her mother’s influence on her life as a reader.

She went on to publish two more books before she died. The Second Stage was published and 1982 and The Fountain of Age in 1993 (“Betty Friedan Biography,” n.d.). Friedan’s early life consisted of her excelling in college. She graduated from Smith College in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree.

In 1960, she finally settled down and started writing after the British security forces had followed her for some years. She published her first book “Sofka: The autobiography of a princess.” She passed away from heart failure in 1994. Sofka was a brave woman who was born in St. Petersburg in 1907.

In 1980 she wrote a book called “A Self Portrait.” It had a brief summary of her careers and life. In 1991, she became an advisor for Ann Richards who was the Texas Governor at that time. She later suffered from leukemia. Despite her declining health, she chaired the US Commission on Immigration Reform from 1994-1996.

Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama (Encyclopedia britannica). Hurston was fifth of eight children (history.com). “ Her parents, John Hurston and Lucy Potts Hurston, had a great impact on her writing by their jobs and culture”(Editors of Encyclopedia). When she was a toddler, Hurston moved to Eatonville, Florida (biography.com). Her mother died when she was just nine years old (encyclopedia.com).

She had so much soul that I thought she was a southern girl, however, she was born in Los Angeles, CA to a girl not much older than she was at birth. Her mother (Dorothy Hawkins) was only 14 when she had Etta. Etta never knew her sperm donor. Dorothy was a smart girl, nonetheless and encouraged her daughter to sing, sing, sing! Dorothy always told her daughter that she had something

Grandmother Hagar Weylin, an ancestor of Dana’s was born in the year 1831. Her parents were Rufus Weylin, a white man and Alice Greenwood, a freed, black woman. Hagar, born biracial (half black half white) married Oliver Blake and had seven children. Dana remembers a chest of historical information at her uncle’s house, and in that chest was a bible and a family tree Hagar had kept records of family members up to her death. Grandmother Hagar was organized because despite the difficult circumstances she was living under (society - being a black woman in the Antebellum South), she was still able to keep track of her family generations as times got difficult.

Since the beginning of the written language, the reader's perception of a literary work has been based on their interpretation of how the story was portrayed. Differing points of view within the story generate diverse interpretations among readers. From Shakespeare to Faulkner, the aspect of differing viewpoints allows each story to convey contrasting feelings to the reader. In Eudora Welty’s Why I Live at the P.O., she uses a first-person view to reinforce this idea. The attitude of the narrator, sister, is biased in many respects to further her agenda.

This movement represented a rebirthing of the Black culture allowing black Americans to feel a sense of pride. This gave an opportunity of blending of the Caribbean and African cultures with Black America. The writing theme Modernism came on the scene during the middle of 1940’s. William Carlos Williams introduced this form of writing in his poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow”. A simple poem using free-verse is written in ordinary form.