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Have you ever watched a "behind the scenes" of a television show? If you haven't than I suggest you do. It typically will explain the meaning of the show or what the producer was trying to get the audience to notice. Often times they will interview the producer or writer and ask why they did such a show. Not all, but a lot of times it tends to be from personal experiences or something that the writer/producer has gone through, heard about or witnessed. The best example of this would be the movie about the 9/11 attacks that came out last year. I wanted to take a look into the life of Tillie Olsen and discover what was "behind the scenes" of her short story, "I Stand Here Ironing."
Tillie Olsen was born on January 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. She was the second of six children of Samuel and Ida Beber Lerner. Her parents were Russian Jewish Immigrants who had fled from Czarist after the 1905 revolution. They were forced to settle for low-wage jobs and a lower class life in......

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