Breaking Bad

     After watching the first episode of breaking bad I can imply that there are many gender roles throughout the episode.  One was that men should be the sole provider of the house.  In the first episode, Walter had to work two jobs in order to provide for his family and live comfortably.  While he worked two jobs, his wife did not seem to have a job at all.  Providing for his family became such an issue that he had no choice but to start cooking crack.  Another implied gender role was is that men shouldn't break under pressure.  When Walter found out he had cancer he did not react in the same way any of us would.  Not only that but he didn't tell his family in an effort to protect them.

Ending Crapalachia

Scott McClanahan wrote the novel in an effort of trying to describe his life with such detail to make it as lively and realistic as possible.  He goes into depth with topics usually not touched upon such as death.  He also tries portraying his friends and family as live like in order to get the reader to understand what their situation is like and in efforts to help the reader relate to the characters.  His style of writing did end up working, in my opinion, because I personally have been through struggles considering I come from a working class environment as well.  My situation might not be as bad as what is portrayed in the story but it does in fact make you relate to the characters in the story.  I feel like the entire novel did what was intended to do by making the reader feel like it might of been them in that situation, and that catches you from the start of the novel to the very end.