A Literary Analysis Of Black Water By Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has been a literary genius, which is one of the many reasons I decided to go to her event at Clowes Auditorium. I have also recently read her book, Black Water, which was an interesting read. It was a fictional telling of the Chappaquiddick Scandal that had happened several years before I was born. One the aspects of Black Water I particularly appreciated was that she took a real life event and created a fictional story around it. At this reading, on September 28 2015, she read from her new book, entitled The Lost Landscape. This entire book is written about Oates’s growing up and becoming the writer she is today. This book contains interesting third person point of view authors telling the childhood of Joyce Carol Oates.
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After reading Black Water, I thought about why she would pick a topic like a senator leaving a girl to drown. When she was answering this question she began with saying that she likes to write about real events, but with fictional characters. Also, most of her stories seem to be about woman being treated poorly by the patriarchy. This was the case in Black Water, where the main female protagonist was left to drown to Joyce Carol Oates has been a literary genius, which is one of the many reasons I decided to go to her event at Clowes Auditorium. I have also recently read her book, Black Water, which was an interesting read. It was a fictional telling of the Chappaquiddick Scandal that had happened several years before I was born. One the aspects of Black Water I particularly appreciated was that she took a real life event and created a fictional story around it. This type of writing is similar to historical fiction, however, the subject matter she addresses in her books differ from typical historical fiction books’ subject matter. At this reading, on September 28 2015, she read from her new book, entitled The Lost Landscape. This entire book is written about Oates’s growing up and becoming the writer she is today. This book contains interesting third person point of view authors telling the childhood of Joyce Carol Oates. As a reader of her work …show more content…
Overall, I thought it was structured well and allowed for people to both hear Oates read her own work and ask her questions about her life. Audience members asked a range of questions that attempted to gauge at how Oates writes and thinks while she is writing. One person asked her about her experiences with boxing because she had written essays on boxing. She had stated that she went to matches with her father and was able to watch boxing her entire life. She currently does not follow boxing, however, insisted that it would be interesting to write about it again. If I had to change anything, I would allow for a longer question and answer time. Question time is when the audience members are able to learn more about the author. Many of the questions asked were questions that discussed her writing style and her topics and it was unique to have the author explain her literary choices in front of
After reading Black Water, I thought about why she would pick a topic like a senator leaving a girl to drown. When she was answering this question she began with saying that she likes to write about real events, but with fictional characters. Also, most of her stories seem to be about woman being treated poorly by the patriarchy. This was the case in Black Water, where the main female protagonist was left to drown to Joyce Carol Oates has been a literary genius, which is one of the many reasons I decided to go to her event at Clowes Auditorium. I have also recently read her book, Black Water, which was an interesting read. It was a fictional telling of the Chappaquiddick Scandal that had happened several years before I was born. One the aspects of Black Water I particularly appreciated was that she took a real life event and created a fictional story around it. This type of writing is similar to historical fiction, however, the subject matter she addresses in her books differ from typical historical fiction books’ subject matter. At this reading, on September 28 2015, she read from her new book, entitled The Lost Landscape. This entire book is written about Oates’s growing up and becoming the writer she is today. This book contains interesting third person point of view authors telling the childhood of Joyce Carol Oates. As a reader of her work …show more content…
Overall, I thought it was structured well and allowed for people to both hear Oates read her own work and ask her questions about her life. Audience members asked a range of questions that attempted to gauge at how Oates writes and thinks while she is writing. One person asked her about her experiences with boxing because she had written essays on boxing. She had stated that she went to matches with her father and was able to watch boxing her entire life. She currently does not follow boxing, however, insisted that it would be interesting to write about it again. If I had to change anything, I would allow for a longer question and answer time. Question time is when the audience members are able to learn more about the author. Many of the questions asked were questions that discussed her writing style and her topics and it was unique to have the author explain her literary choices in front of