Forrest+Carter



=Written by= Robert Gulley & Jeffery Ullrich

=Segregationist Asa Earl Carter Aka Forrest Carter = = =

name, referred to his children as his nephews, and cut all ties with racist, polities or anyone else who would know him by his real name.


=Praised again after being shunned=

Forrest Carter was hailed as a wonderful author of “fact” and fiction for his works on Little Tree and the Josey Whales book. Critics loved little tree so much it became a #1 best seller as
====“TRUE” work. Asa had become Forrest “Little Tree” Carter, and until he was discovered after a 1970’s interview with Barbra Walters by former political opponents. "The Education of Little Tree" was passing==== ====for the ideal autobiography. Little Tree was also once recommended by famed book enthusiast and talk show host; Oprah Winfrey, until her researchers exposed to her the authors origins. The book was shunned and removed from====

may just have been carters attempt at redemption from past transgressions.
=Books written under pseudonym Forrest Carter=



= = =Comments of the group=

====Why do people write fake autobiographies? Why do people read autobiographies? To learn some new way of thinking or to escape the realities of their own life, that’s what we read them for, to live vicariously through an others character. And it is said that novelists, live out there own fantasies, written on paper, for the world to read. So imagine that you had a past life of forty plus years, fighting for a cause that suddenly didn’t matter, a dark secret that you must now hide, (and you happen to have twenty-five years experience writing book aimed in convincing people to follow your rhetoric). What do you do? Disown everyone you know, move far away, and change your name. As tin the case of Forrest Carter. Carter reinvented himself to avoid the prosecution for the wrong doings of his past. It is theorized that Carter may have had some sort of epiphany; a moment that he suddenly realized the error of his racist ways and needed to escape from it. Forest Carter, far different from Asa, conceptualized the ideal begging for himself; the king caring Little Tree. Asa Carter divorced his former life and began a new as someone who had endured the same indifference that he had once inflicted upon others. Dan Carter believed that “The Education of Little Tree” originally titled “Me and Grandpa,” was Carter's attempt at redemption, and perhaps that’s what Carter was after, a normal life; built upon values that were universal. Carter having spent fighting a losing battle was finally accepted for his purity of thought. This is one of many interpretations of the actions made by Forrest Carter and by other fellow outsider autobiographers like him. The truth is, no one but the author understands the complexities of the drive to create such masterful lies; we can only continue to read their entrancing stories, contemplate their meanings and theorize to the real question of “why?”====

=Information References:=

All references for this paper wore used from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141620/bio

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