Jody Tiffin is a small boy around the age of ten and is the main protagonist in this coming of age story. Because of the protagonist being significantly younger than Ethan Hawley from The Winter of Our Discontent, the self critical narrative won’t be as strong. This makes John Steinbeck give Jody a more humble outlook and have his observation of the setting
Within the text is also an introduction put together by Neal Salisbury. Neal Salisbury graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and became a professor of history at Smith College. This narrative was written to tell a story of how Rowlandson was help captive by Indians and the trauma she went through while in captivity and after being released. Born to John White and Joan West in approximately 1637 in Somerset County in England; Mary was John and Joan’s fifth child
life. Her favorite authors were: Jane Austen, Mary Renault, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Shirley Jackson. They also influenced her. She also liked writing horseback riding and taking classes at the University of Tulsa. Her first stories were about cowboys, gun fighting, and horses. She loved reading, but she didn’t like the literature that written for teenagers. Hinton was the most successful novelist for junior high
writer uses authentic scientific information as a base of his story. Science-Fiction is a label which came in early 1920’s.An American engineer and magazine editor Hugo Gernsback named ‘Scientifiction’ in 1926 to the contents of magazine called ‘Amazing Stories’. The more profound term Science-Fiction was used in editorial page of the magazine Astounding Stories as Astounding Science-Fiction in 1938.The major precursors of Science-Fiction stories were Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, and