The assignment we were given was to write a memoir, or an account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. In other words were to demonstrate an event of our lives, and show how this event shaped us in some way. We had the option to express our event through the use of a graphic memoir like Maus, photographic/visual memoir like “How I Met Your Mother,” musical/poetic memoir like “American Pie,” painted memoir, or traditional. With all of these different styles I gravitated to poetry. My poems without a doubt spoke about a traumatic event, and what happened to my life from it. It discussed a horrific event I experienced, and explained how through this incident I came out a stronger person. In my memoir I spoke about the worst experience in my life, which was when I was sexually assaulted. I thought my life would forever be nothing but the depression I
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I believe it is when you reach in your soul and tell tell your truth, and explained what you learned from it. I think it makes you dig deep in your soul, and take a look at yourself and ask “what shaped me into this?” and that's exactly what this assignment did for me. Although painful, this memoir made me relive a dark time in my life but also helped me find peace with it. I finally realized two cliché things to be extremely true, everything happens for a reason and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
In conclusion, my poems are 100% a memoir because, it discuss how an occurrence in my life taught me a underlying lesson. I was able to use the poems to eloquently display a story, and help to show how not every negative in your life, will forever be a negative, Not only that, but how to take your experience and make it positive and not let it ruin you. This is what makes my poems so undeniably a memoir. On a final note, “Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained” Thomas M.
I believe it is when you reach in your soul and tell tell your truth, and explained what you learned from it. I think it makes you dig deep in your soul, and take a look at yourself and ask “what shaped me into this?” and that's exactly what this assignment did for me. Although painful, this memoir made me relive a dark time in my life but also helped me find peace with it. I finally realized two cliché things to be extremely true, everything happens for a reason and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
In conclusion, my poems are 100% a memoir because, it discuss how an occurrence in my life taught me a underlying lesson. I was able to use the poems to eloquently display a story, and help to show how not every negative in your life, will forever be a negative, Not only that, but how to take your experience and make it positive and not let it ruin you. This is what makes my poems so undeniably a memoir. On a final note, “Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained” Thomas M.