The final exam is set for Friday, May 2 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
The essay for your final exam is “Rural Delivery” by Barbara Kingsolver on page 534 of The Bedford Reader.
I would like you to use this space to post potential questions, observations, thoughts, and ideas about the final essay.
Title: “Rural Delivery”
Author: Barbara Kingsolver b. Maryland, B.S. biology, M.S. biology, worked as a technical writer and scientific researcher, author of novels, poetry, non-fiction, winner of National Endowment for the Humanities award.
Publication: “Rural Delivery” is a section in a chapter in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life which is a memoir about her family’s experiences of trying to raise, grow, and harvest all of their own food, or buy from a producer within a 60 mile radius published in 2007.
Thesis: Para. 3 middle: “the antipathy in our culture between the urban and the nonurbana is so durable, it has its own vocabulary….I don’t think there’s much doubt, on either side, as to which class is winning the culture wars (Kingsolver 535).
Purpose: to communicate/share her experiences of growing up a “farmer,” to explore/discuss the perceived differences between those who live in a rural environment and those who live in an urban environment, and ultimately to communicate the message that we are all dependent upon those who grow our food and the places where it is grown.
Style/Tone: informal in style due to inclusion of personal experience/narrative, but employs a more sophisticated/educated vocabulary
Organization: highly organized, each paragraph has a topic sentence, all topic sentences refer back to the thesis of the essay.
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