Dave Marsh, Fortunate Son

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Dave Marsh, Fortunate Son, expresses a literacy event the best. The social event that takes place between the writer, GM and African Americans shows his dissatisfaction. His life in Pontiac, Michigan seemed perfect to him until his town had drastic changes in businesses which demanded his family to move. However, GM offered the writer’s parents double the amount that they paid for their house to move elsewhere. This aloud his parents to choose a “better” home. The writer went from living in the city where “feet or a bicycle could get you anywhere.” to moving to the suburbs where “cars were the fundamental of life.” The writer then described how difficult it is to make friends. Then one day the writer had a flashback. In this flashback he

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