Thanks to each of these entries from our first week of the Pat Conroy contest in which winners will receive a 1st Edition copy of Conroy's South of Broad. (Read Rules Here)
Of the 15 books we have to give away, 7 have been reserved for non-essay writers who participate by adding to or leading the discussion both on Swampland and on the Writers of the South Facebook page.
We are posting all of the essays here so that people can comment on them, Conroy, or the topic at large. By doing so, you can win a copy of South of Broad.
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Essay Topic #1:
Chapter one of South of Broad begins with the statement, "Nothing happens by accident." Pick a character from one of Pat Conroy’s novels and explain how destiny affects him/her. Do you agree that real life is the result of predetermined forces? Or can we affect our fate?
Essay #1:
South of Broad opens with, "Nothing happens by accident," which could mean every event is predetermined, like the birth of a mewling, wrinkled baby, a rare ruby to an exhausted mother, too tired to fathom this son will one day kill her.
Instead, maybe synchronicity is busy weaving webs, juggling events to feel meant to be. When Jack McCall, in Beach Memories, finds unexpected love with Shyla, his Jewish neighbor, he did not have to lose her to suicide, but the pattern sewn into Shyla’s life by parents who survived the Holocaust stitched her an early death
Essay #2:
Using the character Leo from Pat Conroy’s novel South of Broad to ponder providence is like using Spongebob to debate the fairness of the organ transplant list. Whether he’s ahead of a prisoner at Folsom is irrelevant.
Conroy’s characters are caricatures. Their ‘I dare you to believe this’ entanglements are inauthentic. The storytelling, exemplified when Leo meets every friend who will shape his life in the course of one day, is overly arranged. It’s not a bad thing. The prose is blossoming and beautiful. The characters simply do not lend themselves to the advancement of thought about destiny.
Essay #3:
When I think of the writings of Pat Conroy, many thoughts of the past are conjured up in my mind. He is able to touch the very depth of my soul by stirring up memories in my life. He wrote in the Foreword to Frank Stitt's cookbook, Southern Table, "I speak now of the coincidence and the detached collision"; he was stating unrestrictedly how well he understands how destiny and fate are intertwined in our lives. In Prince of Tides, Tom Wingo's entire life is a collision of fates. Fate happens, but it's up to us how we treat it.
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