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A good essay will address how one narrative has shaped the lives of the people in the book, and it will question whether that narrative is attainable or just a fantasy. If it is a fantasy, how have the people in the book dealt with their inability to make that narrative true for themselves. What you may want to do is begin by describing the narrative, go on to explain how the people mentioned in the book have dealt with that narrative, and then draw from that to discuss the United States in general. In your introduction you may wish to establish the parameters of the narrative or why Americans feel narrative is so important in their lives. In the conclusion you may want to draw your own conclusions about the meaning of the book and the role of narrative in American lives. One idea to consider is the famous quote by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (1849) that:
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Running head: HILLBILLY ELEGY
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Hillbilly Elegy
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Hillbilly Elegy is J.D Vance’s memoir which captures his family’s struggles and the
cultural crisis of growing in Appalachian. J. D Vance is a venture capitalist, born and raised
in Middletown, Ohio. His parents divorced when he was young, leading to him and his sister
growing up around his mothers’ several marriages, but later moved to a more stable
environment at his grandparents’ house. Throughout his childhood, he witnessed his mother,
grandparents, mother, and the community around him make bad choices, and especially his
mother whose struggle with prescription pain medication lead to heroin addiction (Vance,
2016). The dysfunctional family and the poverty culture across the community offered him
very little stability, but he argues that he found a way to achieve upward mobility against
these challenges, and was able to climb the social ladder to attend Ohio State
University and Yale Law School.
In this controversial memoir, Vance ca...
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