BOOK REPORT GROWING UP BY RUSSELL BAKER

Book Report Growing Up By Russell Baker

Book Report Growing Up By Russell Baker

Part A:

Novel Name: Growing Up

Author Name: Russell Baker

Publisher Name: Signet

Publication Year: 1992

Publication City: Washington

Part B:

In 1937, on the recommendations of another brother, Baker's mother took her two young kids to reside in Baltimore, home of a great essayist of that period, H. L. Mencken. The family struggled financially. Baker was adept to assist a bit with a part-time job as bulletin deliverer, but the nightmare of having to proceed on relief, of having to accept precede government-surplus nourishment, smuggled surreptitiously into the dwelling under flimsy camouflage, became a reality for these pleased people.

Russell Baker was born in rural Morrisonville, Virginia on August 14, 1925. His early upbringing was not conducive to the development of the elegant, urbane scholarly method and trenchant condemnation of contemporary town life he was to indulge in later. One of his soonest recollections were of being nosed in his crib by an inquisitive cow. There were some pleasing recollections of growing up close to environment: "summer days drenched in sunlight, fields yellow with buttercups." although, it was not a very progressive community; Baker's father, a stonemason, past away of untreated diabetes when the boy was five, even though insulin had been discovered almost a decade previous.

Baker's mother, taught as a schoolteacher, had revised for a year in school and boosted her son's aptitude for language. During these soonest years there was much contention over child-rearing methods between mother and mother-in-law, both of whom were strong-willed women. When Baker's dad past away in 1930, the junior woman took the event to depart her husband's large family—and Virginia—for good. Her destitution at the time was attested by the fact that she provided her least old progeny, who was still a baby, up for adoption. Baker's mother moved to Newark, New Jersey, with Baker and his younger sister, boarding with her male sibling, who continued to have a steady job throughout this despondency era. What covering begun out in 1931 as a provisional arrangement—until his mother should find work—lasted for six years, encompassing a move by the combined families to close by suburban Belleville. The best Baker's mother could manage was work as a laundress.

During this second stage of his life Baker exchanged maternal for paternal uncles resulting in an early exposure to heated political argument in ...