Michael Mcmillan's This Is Just My Face

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Michael McMillan once said ”, You can not start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” It is because I agree that we tend to continue to look back at the past instead of focusing on the present. I agree with Mr. McMillan. Mr. Mcmillan shows that we will never be able to contain or control our lives if we refuse to move on. In the book This Is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe, Mrs. Sidibe shows that no matter how hard we would like to erase the past. It can never be done.

Mrs. Sidibe establishes her pathos by giving experiences she had as a child as well as an adult. In the beginning of the memoir, Mrs. Sidibe gets a phone call, from her director Lee Daniels, telling her that she was going to be on the cover of Vogue.

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