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Joan Didion And Her Outlook On Glorified Sacramento

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Each essay had a different topic which were flat out different. In my opinion the only thing they had in common was how joan didion criticized both for developing. She glorified Sacramento as it was when she was growing up , but as things started to change her outlook on Sacramento also changed. She didn 't see Sacramento the same , it wasn 't the place she grew up in anymore. As it did towards the people in san Francisco, she saw how they were worsening their situation after running away from their homes to start over in the golden land. She shared how she met a five year old girl who was given LSD by her mother which just showed how thing were falling apart. Slouching towards bethlehem was mesmerizing to me because of all the
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