Joyce Carol Oates wrote This I Believe: Five Motives of Writing explaining the five different motives of writing commemoration, bearing witness, self-expression, propaganda, and aesthetic object. “Commemoration” (Oates 1) is the remembrance method, where it can be ancestory, legends, myths, or family. "Where a story or a novel is set is at least as significant as what the story—the plot—“is.”" (Oates 1). “Bearing witness” (Oates 1) structure is what is going on in the world, what happens in history. “Self-expression” (Oates 1) technique is about adolescent, stories about children. These types of stories are "The essence of the adolescent is rebelliousness, skepticism." (Oates 1). “Propaganda or moralizing” (Oates 1) is the method of writing
