Write 10 pages with APA style on Healing Literature and Society Views. Here too prejudices and hatred held sway. The literature that tried to answer and guide people during the century, had to be eith

Write 10 pages with APA style on Healing Literature and Society Views. Here too prejudices and hatred held

sway.

The literature that tried to answer and guide people during the century, had to be either

Utopian or dystopian, showing them the ideal ways of living and ideal solutions. or, hold

a mirror to their mistakes by showing a world where everything is wrong. (The dystopia

Novel). The solution should be somewhere in between and include all perspectives and

points of view.

NATURE WRITING movement started by Henry David Thoreau pointed to ways of

living fundamentally divergent from the ones laid down by dominant dictates and

attitudes of society. (David L.Barnhill).Other authors have followed in the footsteps

giving their poetic solutions in their Fictions and Essays. Iron John , is a Work of the

Vietnam war trying earnestly to heal the wounds and bring together the alienated

members of the society. The book talks about the industrial civilization which cut

asunder the father and son who once worked shoulder to shoulder , teaching and learning

, bonded by that common experience. The father figure is no longer a reality in the war-

ravaged America. He is at best a frustrated, battered man who returns from the pressures

and stress of the workplace, too irritable to empathize, and at worst, a drunk, and more

often, a deserter of the family. The youth are angry with the older men for pushing them

into a war, butchering them without mercy while they themselves are safe .Old men fend

for themselves and have not time to spend in understanding the grievance of the younger

generation. Men just grow up angry at the loss of their childhood, disappointed with the

barrenness of their manhood and tired of having to play roles imposed on them by

society.