Welcome to our Working Class Studies book discussion blog. You are to post at least three individual responses to your book, and two group responses.
The first group post should address:
1. What drew you to this book?
2. How is it "working class?"and
3. Your sense of what the book is about and your sense of how "good" a book it is (the quality of the writing; its literary merit).
Be sure to post a list of the group members. Please do this each time you post a group response.
Each subsequent post should, at a minimum:
1. Discuss whether or not (and the extent to which) the book is meeting your expectations. (The first individual and group post should discuss what your expectations are and why you chose this book.)
2. Reflect on how the theme (or a theme) of the book is "work," or "working class," and
3. Analyze the quality of the book. (Is it any good? Why or why not?)
2 comments:
Our group was drawn to this book because it has alot to do with sports, which interests everyone in our group. We are also interested in it becuase it is said to be a comeback story. The book revolves around an Irish American who tries to make a living by boxing before and during the depression. This is the golden age of boxing. James J. Braddock looses a majority of his earnings during the depression and has to work his way through it. He is an inspiration to all unemployed working Americans and Irish-Americans. Our expectations are that the book must be good because a movie was later based off of it and it is a pretty well known book.
Our group chose to read Cinderella Man because it seemed like an interesting book. It is about boxing and considering everyone in our group is an athlete, it seemed like a good choice. It involves working class in the sense that the main character in the book started out as a worker at the docks and once he lost all hope from lasing that job, he still got back out there and became a famous boxer. We don't necessarily expect too much of this story. None of us really enjoy reading too much, but it seems like it will be a good book. This book does have good quality. It is a large amount of reading and yet it keeps us interested with the pictures and the literature. It is a book about a boxer who overcame several failures and several jobs to find his "nack" at boxing.
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