Summary Of Life Story By David Shields

David Shields in his work Life Story manages to prove that the collectivness of the society in one individual, especially in literature, is possible. Shields creates an image of a person living through all of the stages of life, birth, brief view on childhood, exstensive description of shool times and adult life, and finally death. It seems like the cliché has taken all what was good and positive in life, and replaced it with materialism, crisis and egocentrism. The portrait that Shields creates is widely negative, he mocks the contemporary society because of it's flaws and the addition to material things. Philip Lopate in his foreword was right, claiming that the mass media influences people's thoughts. The common tendency is to let it overtake