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    A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories"
    A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories"
    A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories"
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    A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories"

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    A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535818377
    A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories"

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      A Study Guide for Jason Brown's "Animal Stories" - Gale

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      Animal Stories

      Jason Brown

      1994

      Introduction

      Animal Stories, Jason Brown’s story of ayoung man grappling with his mother’s imminent death from a brain tumor, has received widespread acclaim as the work of a strong and up-and-coming author. In 25 and Under/Fiction, an anthology containing Animal Stories, Brown notes that he wrote this story when he was twenty-two and his mother was in the hospital for a successful operation. My relationship with her was bad enough that I had not gone to visit her. The guilt drove this story on, he remembers.

      The story is told by the character Jamie as a recollection of his mother’s recent stay in the hospital after she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Memories from further in the past blend in and out of the moments that Jamie spends in the hospital room with his mother. These memories provide critical background information on his family life and on the state of his adult life, including his failures in school, at work, and in his love life. The memories serve as a distraction to the fact that Jamie’s mother, whose hold on reality is tenuous at best, is dying a horrible death and refuses to allow the doctors to treat her. Also serving as a distraction, as well as a prompt to his reminiscing, are the nature and animal videos playing almost nonstop on the television in his mother’s hospital room.

      Author Biography

      Jason Brown, born in 1969, grew up in Portland, Maine, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University. Later he attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Truman Capote

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