Summary Of The Red Bow By George Saunders

George Saunders has written several short stories; however, he has only two stories that have somewhat of the same context. “The Red Bow” and “Adams” were written after the tragedy of 9/11 and was about how the United States invaded Iraq. “The Red Bow” was published on the Esquire on August 20, 2009 and “Adams” was published in The New Yorker on August 9, 2004. With Saunders’ biography in writing these two stories fit right in, with their context, and with his thinking of the United States involvement in the world.
George Saunders did not start his career as a writer of literature; as a result, he wanted to study the world of engineering. Furthermore, after graduating college and beginning his career as a geophysical engineer, he became lonely. This is when he started reading literature and began to enjoy the work. “During this somewhat isolated and lonely time, Saunders began reading literature more widely and was introduced to the work of other fiction authors beyond Rand – notably Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ernest Hemingway. Soon he started down a different path, one that would eventually land him at the MFA program at Syracuse University, where he still teaches the creative writing program” (George Saunders Biography). Saunders’ writing often is about U.S. relations around the world. Saunders has won the National Magazine Award for fiction four different time along with several other awards. Saunders is a very successful writer and continues to write award winning