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A 6 page paper which examines the life of John Updike and then presents
a discussion of Updike’s essay “A & P.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAupAP.rtf
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His works are relatively simple, yet he has a way of making them incredibly real as he depicts the most common of individuals and truly highlights their common existence. In
the following paper we take a look at the man who is John Updike. The paper then examines one of his short stories titled "A & P." John
Updike "John Hoyer Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18,1932. He was the only child born to Linda Grace Hoyer and Wesley Russell Updike" (LePera). His birthplace has
often served as a model for many of his stories, for he was brought up in a very "nurturing suburban environment. He not only lived with his parents but also
with his grandparents, John and Katherine Hoyer" (LePera). When John was 13 his family moved to Plowville, Pennsylvania, his mothers hometown. There they lived "on an eighty acre farm
in the country" (LePera). It was here that, suffering as a child from psoriasis, he "dreamed to escape" the isolation of the farm (Books and Writers). He continued his education
in the Shillington public schools, where his father was a junior high school mathematics teacher" (LePera). "his mother wrote short stories and novels" (The Academy of American Poets). He graduated
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike began a journey that led him to his future as a
successful writer" (LePera). It was as a copy boy for the Reading Eagle that his work as a writer began. "The following fall Updike attended Harvard University on a tuition
scholarship. He began writing and drawing for the Harvard Lampoon" (LePera). He often admits that it was "his mothers literary ambitions" that "sparked his own literary aspirations" (Stewart). In
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