Part one of term paper
“” is part of a collection of short stories in the book Trash published in 1988, written by Dorothy Allison. It is the basis for the later novel Bastard out of Carolina. In her powerful writing, Allison draws on her own harrowing childhood in 1950s Greenville, South Carolina: the stigma of growing up a bastard, the shame and pride ...

Part two of term paper
... and hope.” Her emotionally intense tale is woven with poverty, incest and abuse is ultimately a tale of survival. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. In today’s society people are eager to categorize what they are unfamiliar with. They perceive people who are poor, and from the south as “white trash.” Their own socio-economic ...