John Updike The spring of 1932, a child was born on a small farm in the hills of Pennsylvania. He would grow up yearning to see what was outside of his tiny existence and his life would eventually take him to the best schools in the country, and then to one of the most prominent magazines in the world. Although as a child, John Updike lived in a fairly sheltered world but experienced and learned much …showed first 75 words of 1515 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1515 total… exciting and interesting childhood that almost all of his stories retells some event that occurred years before. His writings also deal with human emotion and how it affects the lives of his characters. A list of social lessons can be taken from his stories, and the impact of these lessons on his characters is always clearly evident. Theses works evoke the human spirit and explain much about the relationships that are shared by many.