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This 5 page paper contrasts and compares two books of John Updike: Of the Farm and A Month of Sundays. Characterization, theme and content are explored. Examples supported with quotes from the text. Critique is also included as well as brief synopsis of each book. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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two extremes when considering the work, life and times of American novelist, John Updike. Those who cannot stomach his style and his content are usually hung up on the sexual
innuendos and the rife way he pokes his finger into the places that Christians would prefer not to discuss. In his books, "Of The Farm" and "A Month of Sundays"
these very elements are evident as well as a similar treatment of what the critics have come to love about Updike: his style and use of the English language. This
paper will explore the similarities and differences of these two novels in their approach to some of the same topics and issues. "Of the Farm" is a very short novel
and more aptly should be called a novella because of its length. This book finds the protagonist, Joey, making his way back to the family farm where he grew up.
He is making this trip for several reasons. First, his mother is not doing well and is ill. Secondly, he wants to show the farm to his newest wife and
his step-son Richard. But, of course, he has forgotten the reason that he left the farm in the first place and in true Updike fashion, Joey is forced to confront
those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations about Joeys first, and failed, marriage, and of course
everything that Joey views on the farm forces him to take stock of the boy he used to be and the man he has become. Without being overtly pronounced about
it, Updike offers a probable example of how Joey and his mother, Mary, might have related when Joey was a child by showing a budding friendship between Mary and Joeys
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