The Red Scare Short Story
Imagine living in a society where everyone was constantly afraid of their spouses, cousins, uncles, co-workers and neighbors being communist spies. Now imagine hundreds if not thousands of people being accused of being communist spies and then having to go through trials were the person would often lose their jobs, lose their trust of the community and being arrested, without any solid evidence. Well that was an event that occurred to the people living in the 1940’s through 1950’s, this was called the Communist Red Scare. Bobbie Ann Mason the author makes the characters in the story be affected by Red Scare to a point that the main character blamed the communist for her mother’s miss carriage. In the short story “DETROIT SKYLINE, 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason reflects those events of paranoia that happened in the 1940s through 1950s of the Communist Red Scare. The Communist Red Scare was defined as “the fear that communist both outside and inside American were working to destroy American life.” Page 868 of ("Printice Hall United States History." Pearson EText. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2017.) The Red Scare was first mentioned in the 1919’s through the 1920’s but it didn’t go deeper wider, or lasted longer than the later 1940’s Red
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What motivates Bobbie Ann Mason to developed an interest in writing was “as a child, when she wrote imitations of the mystery series novels she read. She was inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s "Little Women," but it wasn’t until college that she discovered other writers, especially the fiction of Hemingway, Salinger, and Fitzgerald.” Mason, Bobbie Ann. "Bobbie Ann Mason." About Bobbie Ann - Bobbie Ann Mason. N.p., 31 Jan. 2016. Web. 25 May 2017.
In the Story In the short story “DETROIT SKYLINE, 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason reflects the events of what was happened in the 1940s through 1950s, the Communist Red Scare. The entire reason
What motivates Bobbie Ann Mason to developed an interest in writing was “as a child, when she wrote imitations of the mystery series novels she read. She was inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s "Little Women," but it wasn’t until college that she discovered other writers, especially the fiction of Hemingway, Salinger, and Fitzgerald.” Mason, Bobbie Ann. "Bobbie Ann Mason." About Bobbie Ann - Bobbie Ann Mason. N.p., 31 Jan. 2016. Web. 25 May 2017.
In the Story In the short story “DETROIT SKYLINE, 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason reflects the events of what was happened in the 1940s through 1950s, the Communist Red Scare. The entire reason