Goodbye to all that summary
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This essay appears in the Didion collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, but I actually accessed it online, and you can too: here.
From the Essays of E.B. White, particularly &#;Here Is New York&#; and &#;Good-bye to Forty-eighth Street,&#; and a little bit from &#;On a Florida Key,&#; I got swept over to this essay, because I wanted to figure out how they did place so particularly. That is, the particularity of a place, but the fact too that it&#;s so personal, that even the one Florida Key in the one year when White was there is not the same for anyone else as it was for him. I annotated this essay for the place-details Didion uses, and her zooming in and out.
&#;Goodbye to All That&#; is about a time in Didion&#;s life when she had a relationship with a place. She moved to New York City in the mids, and away again in the mids; she writes here of New York &#;beginning&#; and &#;ending&#; for her. The story of the essay is of the way the specialness of the place ended for h
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Goodbye To All That: summary
Robert Graves' autobiography was originally published in and later revised in It is an example of the literature of 'The Lost Generation', who came into adulthood during WWI and became disillusioned by the destruction and needless deaths it caused.
The autobiography begins with Graves' school days at Charterhouse School in London, and goes on to his time as a soldier in France when Graves was only a teenager. The autobiography continues after the war, touching on his time spent in Wales, his student years at the University of Oxford, and finally his time in Egypt. While a soldier in France, Graves was wounded and had injured his lung. Graves suffered from PTSD for ten years.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition that affects a person's mental health. The condition is normally brought on by a traumatic event in that person's life.
Goodbye To All That looks at the atrocities that unfolded during WWI. It exposes some of the inc
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Goodbye to All That
85 pages • 2 hours read
Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in
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English poet and classicist Robert Graves wrote his autobiography, Good-Bye to All That, in , at the age of Graves undertook the writing of his autobiography with the hope of crafting a best-selling book that would support his career as a writer. Good-Bye to All That details Graves’s life from his upper-middle-class childhood in England to his service as a military officer in World War inom, and on to his first few years as a veteran. This memoir provides a candid konto of military s