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In eleven pages this paper presents a novel analysis and also offers the writer’s own opinion and personal perspectives on the story and characters. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
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At various times in his life, McLaurin was a snake handler, had served in the U.S. Marines, in the Peace Corps, and parlayed his love of storytelling and instinctive ear
for dialect into careers as a novelist and beloved creative writing professor at North Carolina State University. A Caucasian born and raised in North Carolina, McLaurin grew up in
tobacco farm country, where men worked and played hard. If appearances were any indication, the Old South lived on only in William Faulkners novels and McLaurin was very much
a product of the New South, where the color barrier was begrudgingly starting to show some cracks, and more biracial couples were beginning to populate even the most rural landscapes.
But racial prejudice and residual tensions between Northern-born carpetbaggers and native Southerners simmered beneath the surface and threatened to boil over when Northern young professionals (yuppies) relocated into small
Southern towns, where they purchased land and thereby ownership of regional cultures and traditions. This was the North Carolina Tim McLaurin called home, the place he would return to
time and again after restlessness would temporarily lead him elsewhere. For Tim McLaurin, biracial relationships symbolized not only the contemporary changes to Southern society but also how the strength
of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve and idealistic perspectives of racial harmony are reflected in the character of Woodrow Bunce, the simple-minded protagonist
of his second novel, Woodrows Trumpet, first published in 1989. This novel, occasionally funny and poignant, but always tinged with sadness and tragedy, was the authors attempt to satirize
the American middle class of the early 1980s South. Here, superficiality and what passes itself off as style always triumph over substance. But Woodrow is a man of
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