![]() ![]() I chose these books because each two of them represent two important subjects in the literature of the Southern States: A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner express the downfall of Southern nobility and the exclusion of their characters from society, Light in August, also by William Faulkner, expresses intimacy and homosexuality in the Southern States and Bastard out of Carolina from Dorothy Allison is at the same time a coming-of-age novel dealing with a childhood subjected to poverty, violence and sexual abuse. I have bought four books from the Southern Gothic Literature to present in this essay. In this essay, I will discuss the Southern Gothic Literature, the genre which To Kill a Mockingbird was written in, its historical background and respectively the political and social circumstances that have influenced it. When doing some research on the story’s background, I found the term Southern Gothic and finally understood, why To Kill a Mockingbird was on the gothic shelf among the other books. I was happy about discussing To Kill a Mockingbird in eleventh grade and became even more engrossed with its story. Its genre, I concluded, was a bit different from Gothic, the genre that the other books I had bought were written in, though it did contain a lot of gothic elements in it, like Boo Radley, who is said to be a phantom, the Ewell family, people in Maycomb with a strange behavior, or the burning house of Miss Maudie. One of the books that I bought along with the others was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I noticed that reading those books was not quite so difficult, though it was hard at first to get into the stories. I had never been interested in books from the past centuries, but since I had a long row of modern day books, I decided to buy some of them and give it a try. In the foreign language category, there were books from the past centuries, such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Phantom of the Opera or Northanger Abbey. Big Walker Mountain, Wytheville, ViginiaĪbout two years ago, I was looking in a bookstore for new books to read. ![]() Mother issues and desire of the Compson boys Why Southern Gothic is no longer existing in the Southern Literatureī. Typical characteristics referring to Southern GothicĦ. Defining the Southern Gothic LiteratureĪ. ![]()
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