How does Fennelly’s understanding of her father’s actions change over time?
Many people have read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild or watched the movie. Strayed’s work is one of the most popular works of creative nonfiction ever published, and if you know Strayed’s work, you already know one of the defining characteristics of creative nonfiction: it relies on the storyteller’s memory about his or her own life experience as story material.
Read this short work of creative nonfiction: “I survived the blizzard of ’79” by Beth Ann Fennelly:
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/i-survived-blizzard-%E2%80%9979
(Links to an external site.)
How does Fennelly’s understanding of her father’s actions change over time? What does the scarf symbolize in Fennelly’s story about the stories that we tell ourselves about our families of origin–and how those stories define and shape who we are as people?
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Sections in Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction
Reader-Response Criticism
Symbolism
Metaphor
Perspective and Point of View
Symbols in Literature
Mark Twain, “Two Ways of Seeing A River,” 1883
Zitkala-Sa, “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” 1900
Bartram, W. (2001). Travels. Retrieved from https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/bartram.html (Original work published 1774) (pp. xii-xxxiv, 166, 168.)
Mayo, L. (2000). Making the connection: Reading and writing together. English Journal, 89(4), 74-7.
Thoreau, H.D. (2017). “Walking.” Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1022
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