Pat Conroys Novel Life An author study by
Pat Conroy’s Novel Life An author study by Mark Lougee
The works that I read • The Great Santini • The Lords of Discipline • Sunday Book Review: The Lords of Discipline
• Both of these stories are partly based off of Pat Conroy’s life • “If you've read much of Conroy at all, you know that almost all of his works - if not every one of them - draw from much of his own life. ” (Caskey)
How the characters are like Pat Conroy Ben Meecham- the main character of The Great Santini Will Mc. Lean- the main character of The Lords of Discipline They both share his love of basketball love of the south Bens Father and Pat’s father “You can who “Anyone be moved knowsprofoundly me well must by other “Georgia Born” [like Pat Conroy], “Ben Felt vistas, by other understand andoceans, be sympathetic by soaring to mountain my “I’ve never received anyone’s a strong kinship to the blood red earth his ranges, but genuine need you tocan be my never own begreatest seduced. hero. You approval, so I’ve learned to live father hated, loved the fragrant land he can It is even not a forsake flaw of character; the low country, it is a renounce without it. ”(The Great Santini 63) saw mostly in night passages, whose air it for other climates, catastrophe. ” (The Lords but you of Discipline can never 104) was filled with country music and virile completely escape the sensuous, smells of crops and farm machinery semitropical pull of Charleston and her possessing the miles between towns. It marshes. ” (The Lords of Discipline 19) was the one place he could hold to, fix upon, identify as belonging to him. He was Will’s decision to attend the Citadel rooted in Georgia because of the seal on his birth certificate. ” (The Great Santini 50)
Other ways in which the stories are similar • Marine corps • Mixed feelings towards tyrannical rule • The Effects of War
Works Cited • Caskey, Bryan. "Permanent Press. " : Sunday Book Review: The Lords of Discipline. N. p. , 17 July 201 Web. 28 Apr. 2013. • Conroy, Pat. The Great Santini. London: Black Swan, 1996. Print. • Conroy, Pat. The Lords of Discipline. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Print. • "Free Republic. " Latest Articles. N. p. , n. d. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. • Http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Basketball. png. N. p. , n. d. Web. 28 Apr. 2013. • "Mud. Bay Images: Gothic Frame. " Mud. Bay Images: Gothic Frame. N. p. , n. d. Web. 28 Apr. 2013. • Www. abovetopsecret. com. N. p. , n. d. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. • Www. richard-seaman. com. N. p. , n. d. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. • Www. vickyjrose. com. N. p. , n. d. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.
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