Slouching Towards Bethlehem Essay Examples and Topics

What it means to be “moral” is a question that over time has been difficult to answer. In its most literal form, morality is defined as the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. In society, the meaning of…

The techniques used in Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion and the film, Man with a Movie Camera both include imagery in numerous ways. Imagery can be very effective because it allows the reader or audience to create a scene in their own perception of…

Joan Didion was a writer of New Journalism along with Truman Capote and Gay Talese. She and the aforementioned journalists pushed against the conventions of traditional reporting to offer idiosyncratic, personal viewpoints. But Didion, at least in the excerpt of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” adopts a…

When we think of America in the late ’60s, we think of the Summer of Love. We imagine the thousands of hippies converging in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. We think of flowered sundresses, psychedelics, and the Rolling Stones. Not so for Joan Didion. In Slouching Towards…