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Shiloh
The foremost dramatic irony in "Shiloh" is found in the characterizations of Leroy and Norma Jean. Disabled by an accident, he is the physically weaker of the two; his wife lifts weights and...
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Shiloh
These are the very last words in the book. Marty speaks them as he's resting on the dewy grass beneath the purple sky as the darkness begins to close in. Shiloh, Marty's faithful canine companion,...
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Shiloh
Shiloh is set in Western Kentucky during the early 1980s. It depicts many of the changes that rocked the region during the Reagan era, with expanding poverty, fewer economic oppurtunities, and...
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Shiloh
Bobbie Ann Mason's "Shiloh" is the first story in her 1982 collection Shiloh and Other Stories. Because of the "slice-of-life" nature of the story, there is no full resolution. At the end of the...
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Shiloh
Norma Jean and Leroy have grown apart during their marriage, and now an inability to communicate clearly plagues them. Because of Larry's accident, he is now at home all the time, a fact that...
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Shiloh
One way in which role reversals are apparent for Leroy and Norma Jean is that Norma Jean is earning the family's living while Leroy sits at home and doing needlepoint (not that one has anything...
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Shiloh
"Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason addresses the problem of a marriage trying to survive despite several problems. As in many marriages, the lack of communication prevents the marriage from being...
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Shiloh
This is a very good question, and well done for noticing the details at the end which are definitely very strange and not explained to us. Firstly, I think the short answer to your question is that...
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Shiloh
“Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason presents three characters who are unable to communicate. Leroy, the husband, has suffered a leg injury in his truck driving. He now does nothing except work with...
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Shiloh
In the short story "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason, Mabel Beasley is Leroy's pragmatic and often critical mother-in-law. Even though it seems as if Mabel does not approve of Leroy, she still wants to...
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Shiloh
Identity and its corollary, gender identity, are main themes of Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason. An accident and a child's death strip Leroy and Norma Jean of their identities and their gender roles....
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Shiloh
I think that one of the main things Norman Jean's and Leroy's relationship suggests about what is needed to keep a happy marriage is communication. In the ninth paragraph of the first section, the...
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Shiloh
The final line of Bobbie Ann Mason's much-anthologized short story "Shiloh," is: ""They were moving like this along the beach, crunching the fragments of...
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Shiloh
"Shiloh" is a 1980 short story by Bobbie Ann Mason about a troubled marriage. Leroy, the husband, is staying home because of an injury. His wife, Norma Jean, begins to have trouble with her...
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Shiloh
The New Yorker Magazine published "Shiloh" in 1980, and it became the title story of Bobbie Ann Mason's 1982 collection Shiloh and Other Stories. Norma Jean, wife of the lazy Leroy, is feeling...
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Shiloh
A good thesis statement should provide a 'road map,' or an over view, of the entire essay, containing: 1) an assertion or opinion about the topic. In your case, Mason uses detail in her short...
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Shiloh
In "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason, there are a variety of things that contribute to the breakup of Norma Jean and Leroy's marriage—his insistence on building a log cabin, her commitment to bettering...
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Shiloh
A reflection of this work can take place in many forms. Analyzing the atrophy of a marriage could be one particular area for a response. The idea of two people who are drifting apart in their...
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Shiloh
These are two very interesting texts to compare and contrast. I would want to approach this question by thinking about the representations of gender in these texts and how women are variously...
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Shiloh
"Shiloh" is the title story from Bobbie Ann Mason's 1982 anthology Shiloh and Other Stories. The disaffected couple in "Shiloh," Norma Jean and Leroy, visit the Civil War memorial at Shiloh in an...
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Shiloh
The main advantage of the third-person point of view is that it allows Mason to highlight the growing sense of estrangement that Leroy feels from Norma Jean. Since his workplace accident, Leroy has...
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Shiloh
"Shiloh" is a short story by Bobbie Ann Mason, collected in her 1982 anthology Shiloh and Other Stories. Leroy, who is unable to work as a trucker because of an injury, has a vague plan to build a...
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Shiloh
"Shiloh" is a short story by Bobbie Ann Mason, appearing in both The New Yorker magazine in 1980 and in her 1982 collection Shiloh and Other stories. Leroy has injured his leg and cannot drive his...
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Shiloh
In "Shiloh," Norma Jean embraces and wants to be a part of the future, while Leroy retreats into and wants to reclaim the past. The two live in a changing environment. Their world is changing from...
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Shiloh
The first clue that Leroy and Norma Jean's marriage isn't completely healthy comes in the line toward the beginning of the story, "...he can't tell what she feels about him..." and later, "he...
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Shiloh
At the end of the book, Marty comments “…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I...
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Shiloh
Although you've phrased your question as if you're asking an opinion, evidence in the story is strong that Mason intends for the reader to see Norma Jean as a woman who seeks her independence. She...
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Shiloh
In the introduction to the story "Charles" the author gives the reader a great deal of information about Laurie. For one thing the author writes in the voice of Laurie's mother letting us know that...
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Shiloh
Shiloh, a Civil War battle site where Confederate forces were thoroughly routed and a decisive turning point in the war, represents the larger forces of history that shape the world the characters...
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Shiloh
We can respond to this question about the crucial element of setting by thinking about the theme of death in this excellent short story. Let us remember that this story is permeated with examples...
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Shiloh
This short story uses a particular point of view to present the story of Leroy and his wife. The narrator is external to the story, and the tale is told in the third person. However, it is limited...
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Shiloh
Bobby Ann Mason wrote "Shiloh" in 1982. It originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine. Norma Jean and Leroy are having problems in their marriage because of an injury that keeps him from...