Response

I liked the drawing names story. It appealed to different southern ideals then the first two chapters that i read. In the first two chapters, they mainly focused on southern pride and how it relates to the confederatcy. In Drawing Names, it appealed more to the southern family traditions. Here, it is a large family who still meets at the parent's house for chirstmas dinner. There are four generations and the mother still makes too much food. In the story, because the family didin't have enough money, they had to make a different tradition, drawing names. The mother, used to the tradition of everyone buying something for everyone else, still doesn't like the new tradition. The large family is a big issue; it hurt her father when her marriage fell apart. Her sister put extra stress on herself to appear that her marriage was working when it wasn't. The emphasis that the family put on not divorcing was a southern theme. In this story, the author appealed to the southern ideals without talking about the rebel cause.