My Life On The Road By Gloria Steinem - 1790 Words

Can travelling be merely a change in motion and place? While moving around to other places does open up new discoveries, it is also able to open people’s hearts and minds to change. In My Life on the Road (2015), Gloria Steinem writes about how travelling on the road from childhood to the present day has impacted her lifelong career. Huck Finn’s perspective on society changes as Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), progresses. Although in one instance the character goes from a sedentary life to one of constant movement, and the other from a life of movement to one that is temporarily sedentary, the change in motion and maturity prompts major changes for both Huck and Gloria. While the authors did write their†¦show more content†¦Steinem let her voice be heard and still strives for social justice to this day (Biography.com Editors, â€Å"Gloria Steinem Biography†). She realized that she was jotting down little of what she had done most in her life: travelling, Her memoir, My Life on the Road (2015), covers the travels she has had since childhood. She writes about how the road inspired her to fight for feminine equality. Steinem becomes significant to the feminist movement that would shape the world. To her, the road was a usual component in life, lasting, and homey while staying in one place was short-lived (Steinem xvii-xviii). Although Mark Twain lived much earlier during a very different historical period than Gloria Steinem, his own life experiences also inspired his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Mark Twain’s family shifted to a town called Hannibal that was established near the Mississippi River, which played an important role in the picaresque novel. The town, cruelty, poverty, and solitude from his childhood are reflected in St. Petersburg from the book. At the age of twenty-one, he learned to navigate a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Twain’s name actuall y was steamboat slang for twelve feet of water. He moved out to the American West for money and adventure and beame one of the most famous and popular writers in America (Biography.com Editors, â€Å"Mark Twain Biography†). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn