Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Monday, April 30, 2018
Letters from Kentucky, section 4
Section 4 sheds some light on author J.D. Daniels' childhood. He writes about a repair shop that he'd worked in on two different occasions- once as a summer job, when his father had warned him that this job as a repair shop attendant could be his future if he didn't "fly straight". The second was when Daniels inevitably didn't fly straight and ended up dropping out of college. He reminisces about the different branded trailers that came in, and the way his coworkers would fool around. He concludes this section by remembering his reading of The Faerie Queene- an old English epic about virtues, and his musings of one day jumping off the Second Street Bridge.
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