What genres did conrad aiken write or w/e?

Question

im doin a report on conrad aiken but i dont know wat his genres are??

Answer 1

You've just hit on one of my favorite authors.

Aiken wrote many short stories, often set in the Old West or on the frontier as it was in colonial times and the early years of the United States. I 'd say his genre was historical fiction.

He wrote a number of novels such as The Awakening Land Trilogy, consisting of The Trees, The Fields, and The Town, which follows the life of a woman named Sayward Luckett (later Wheeler, as she marries near the end of the first novel) in what became the state of Ohio from her arrival there with her parents, sisters, and brother in the 1790's to her death during the American Civil War. In the 1970's these books were the basis of a miniseries called The Awakening Land, which starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.

Two of his other novels deal with the plight of children who were kidnapped during the period of the French and Indian War, raised by the Indians, then essentially forcibly returned to their biological families under the terms of the peace treaty. Light in the Forest (which was filmed by Walt Disney in the 1950's) is the story of a young man who is simply unable to adapt himself to the ways of his settler family, and ultimately returns to the life he knew with the Native Americans. A Country of Strangers deals with a young girl who, like her counterpart in Light in the Forest, was returned to the English and is unable to adjust. In the first novel, the boy was returned to his mother and father, but the girl was returned to an aunt, as all her family had been wiped out during the conflict. Like the protagonist of Light in the Forest, she also ultimately strikes out to resume the life she knows best.

The latter two novels deal extensively with the themes of where, or who, one's true family actually is--kind of an examination of nature vs. nurture.

Hope this helps.

Good luck on your report!

Answer 2

no one cares, all people care about is me. why we have to suffer in school learning history, science, and math is beyond me, we schould be learning about hair or the importance of nails or being to fat or to thin etc. god people are so stupid to see this...