Rusll Baker’s Growing Up
Baker received his cond Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his autobiography, Growing Up (1983). With a moving mix of humor and sadness, Baker insightfully recounts the struggles he and his mother endured in depression-era Virginia, New Jery, and Baltimore after his father pasd away. The book’s greatest achievement is Baker’s portrayal of his mother, a driven woman haunted by poverty and dreams of her son’s success. “I would make something of mylf,幼儿园安全提示” he wrote, “and if I lacked the grit to do it, well then she would make me make something of mylf.” Mary Lee Settle of the Los Angeles Times Book Review called Growing Up, “a wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong … (with scenes) as funny and touching as Mark Twain英语元音音标’反问句改成陈述句s.” Jonathan Yardley of Washington Post Book World declared that “Baker has accomplished the memoirists’ task: to find shape and meaning in his own life, and to make it interesting and pertinent to the reader. In lovely, haunting pro, he has told a story that is deeply in the American grain.”关于国庆节的资料
In the 1920’s America was prented with some challenging times. Her people were faced
with tremendous economic hardships. Life for the typical American family could be described as anything but easy. This hardship produced a n of uncertainty about the future. With this uncertainty American’s had nothing but their faith, hopes, and dreams to live off of. As illustrated in Rusll Baker’s book, Growing up, American’s felt the extreme drive to “Make Something” of themlves. In a way it was out of pure hope to have a better life. In the book Rusll’s mother Lucy Elizabeth can be found saying this repeatedly. For a woman such as Lucy, the only hope of success she had was through that success that her son was capable of. Rusll’s story is like that of most American’s. Through his description of life in the Great Depression, one can only read on and hope that he eventually does make something of himlf. Most American’s had
Growing up is about Rusll Baker’s childhood into adulthood. It starts out with his mother’s flashbacks but soon goes to his childhood. His childhood starts by talking about the rentment between his mother and her mother-in-law, his grandmother. Then he goes on to talk about the death of his father from diabetes, which prompts his mother and his sister Doris to move in with his mothers brother. He has a younger sister named Audr
ey but she is adopted by Aunt Goldie and her husband and raid by them. While living in Newark he discuss the trials and tribulations of living during the Great Depression and how the family comes together to survive. Also, while in Newark, their baby sister Audrey comes to visit. At first Doris is put off by her beauty but eventually the two become life-long friends. Later, the family moves to Baltimore, where the mother supports the children on her own, while Rusll grows to want independence from his mother and enjoys making her intelligence em inferior to his own. His mother while in Baltimore marries a man named Herb and they buy a hou during Rusll’s nior year. They also have a daughter named Mary Leslie. Rusll then gets a scholarship to go John Hopkins College to become educated enough to write. A year into college he enlists with the navy and learns to become a pilot. During this time he is trying to expand his xual horizons with no prevail. Finally he meets Mimi, who by his mothers definition is not a “good woman”. At first he refus to marry her but after he makes $80 a week at his newspaper, he agrees to marry her. The book ends with him visiting his mother and her not remembering who he is.
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Word tips
autobiography开元观 n. 自传
portrayal n. 描画, 描写
haunt v. 神鬼出没
grit n. 粗砂高中生物会考
坐月子吃什么水果wondrous adj. 令人惊奇的, 非常的
memoirist n. 传记,回忆录,追思录
pertinent adj. 有关的, 相干的, 中肯的
flashback n. 急转, 闪回, 倒叙
diabete n. [医] 糖尿病, 多尿症
tribulation n. 苦难, 忧患, 磨难
