Essays --

BC, which also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, is bingle of the plays which he use to his father Sam, who was in the military during World War II in Shepards early childhood years. Samuel Shepard Rogers III, born November 5th 1943 in fastness Sheridan, Illinois, is the oldest of three children. He was nicknamed Steve, since his name came down through seven generations of men. He then changed his name into Sam Shepard. (Sparr, 6) His play has been influenced by his personal life, oddly by his father. In his play, the men are all alcoholics and bound to the darker side. Shepard lived in a family filled with aggression, where the men around him were mostly violent alcoholics. (Lahr, 27) drunkenness goes far back in his life, to the point where he cannot remember one single sober man . (Howe, 14) Thinking about his father, he believes that he owes his father a large part of his identity and his damage. Shepard remembers that his father mazed his farm in Duarte, after he started dri nking, in order to forget his ruined life. (Lahr, 30) This can be put into comparison with Dodge not bei...