Blog 7

I could definitely write for years about how Shit Town can be described as pastoral literature. John in literally a Shepard to his dogs, and lives in the rural country. His life is deceivingly simple - deceivingly being used here because it is not. He spends his days worrying, feeling depressed, and hating himself and his surroundings. The complexities seen underlying John and his character make him very fitting for a pastoral literary person, even though he was real. The pastoral summarization from the book as "a place for everything, and everything it it's place" sort of echoes how John feels lost as a soul and how he feels we are lost as a society. His "place" is Shit Town, and he's tried his whole life, with no success, to overcome the evils and setbacks of the community.