Rick Bragg uses real people from his own

Contemporary author and New York Times correspondent Rick Bragg tells us about the loved ones in his life in at least two of his books, All Over but the Shoutin ' and AvasMan. He tells the story of his mother in one book and of his father in the other.His truth is about coming to terms with what his family and what his connections to his family mean to him. The theme of his work is developed around how his protagonists lived their lives.

He wants us to know them as he knew them or learned about them. But why would we care about his family? What can we learn from what his family meant to him?This is where the art comes in.Rick Bragg uses real people from his own life history to tell us something about life in the rural South during the twentieth century.But he also tells us about suffering,sorrow,and the struggle to survive by using humor and wit.