8/31/11--"The Runaway"

Question for Blog:
Create an intro paragraph for the following thesis statement:  Rockwell's "The Runaway" overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950s--an emerging counter culture that was not concerned with how things were in America, but rather how they are.

Answer:
The time of the 1950s was right after a major war—World War II.  Soldiers were coming home, and America was rejoicing over the end of those hard times.  The culture of America was changing rapidly; instead of looking back on the past, people were looking forward to the future.  In "The Runaway" by Norman Rockwell, the boy was doing just that—by running away.  He was trying to create a new life for himself, as so many people of that time were doing after the war.  Rockwell's "The Runaway" overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950s--an emerging counter culture that was not concerned with how things were in America, but rather how they are.