Comparing and Contrasting Jacqueline Susann and Allison Dorothy
There are a lot of writers in the world. Some are very alike and others different some write about love, tragedy, or mystery, while some write about the government, the economy or the law. When it is all sums up, all of the writers have one thing in common; they want the reader to be open to their (authors) opinion. There are two of the best writers that this statement compares to Jacqueline Susan and Dorothy Allison. Jacqueline Susan and Dorothy Allison are both extremely different but also they have a lot of things in common. Family wise, goal wise and the effect that they had on their readers.
Dorothy Allison was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Dorothy Allison was a feminist controversial type of woman. Allison was raise in extreme poverty by her mother's family. She was often beaten and raped by her abusive stepfather. She was ridicule by classmates when, as a kid, she began writing short lesbian romance stories. She attended Florida Presbyterian College on a National Merit scholarship. Her first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, was one of five finalists for the 1992 National Book Award and won both the Ferro Grumley and Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards for Fiction. Dorothy Allison was interview by Laura miller called; The Salon Interview Laura Miller interviews Dorothy Allison, author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina' and 'Cavedweller'. She was asked question on the movie and her response on Bastard out of Carolina being made into a movie was " It was very weird, frightening. It had so little to do with the book. It had everything to do with my Childhood. It completely ... I was just ... I couldn't. So I couldn't judge it. The movie was so real to her that she felt as if she was the girl in the move, which in a way she was.
Jacqueline was born on August 20, 1918. Jacqueline was a dope-smoking, pill-popping party girl. Susann was born into wealth. Susann's father loved her, took her to the movies, gave her everything; it was like a malibu heaven for Susann. Jacqueline was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During her young years, she chooses acting over writing when she was younger. Her mother would often tell her that she was born to write and in response Jackie declared, "Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress." Jacqueline Susann was a well knows author with some few bumped along the way, She had a child with disabilities and the child was put in a disability home. Jacqueline Susan later on in her life, developed breast Cancer that she died from.
There are some similarities when it comes to these writers; they both had a problem in their family life, both of their fathers were not the best fathers in the world. Allison's father raped and abused her. Jacqueline's father In fact, pretend to take Jacqueline to the movies, he'd send Jackie to the show alone while he rendezvoused with a mistress, then he'd find out from Jackie what the movie was about so he could talk about it when they both got back home! Jacqueline and Allison both started to get notice while they were younger. Jackie was praised for her writing as a schoolgirl, and in fifth grade she scored the highest on her class's IQ test, a 140. Allison, as an adolescent, she began writing short lesbian romance stories. Both of them started to write when they were really young. Both of these writers wrote stories about women, Jacqueline did something that nobody did before, She wrote a book about Sex. It was very controversial to some critics but still was loved by a lot of people; it also had to do with the timing because in the 50s, 60s, it was a big shock for a woman to do something like that. The book was called VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Allison was a feminist, she wrote stories about women and also about their turmoil, stories like Bastard out of Carolina, which was controversial, about a girl who had to deal with sexual situations. The point of all of this is that both of these writers broke all the rules in their time. They wrote about sex, controversial stories, all out there stories which set their trademark for them and this just empowers others to know that women like this existed at that time.
