Often, Lebaron includes actual dates to events she feels as most important but doesn’t include her age, and it makes it difficult to understand how much time has passed from one event to the next. I’m not sure if the author made this decision to try and translate the displacement she experienced growing up, but it becomes confusing to readers. For example, the important event of Anna seeing her father for the first time while in Mexico doesn’t include an age or a date which takes away from the weight of the experience. Later in the book Anna tells readers that her father dies in August of 1981 in his jail cell awaiting trial, without including her age. Both of these memories are important moments that change the direction of her life and her outlook on other events of her life. Without these details it takes away from the importance of these events. When telling a life narrative, age and time are important to determine the pace of the
Often, Lebaron includes actual dates to events she feels as most important but doesn’t include her age, and it makes it difficult to understand how much time has passed from one event to the next. I’m not sure if the author made this decision to try and translate the displacement she experienced growing up, but it becomes confusing to readers. For example, the important event of Anna seeing her father for the first time while in Mexico doesn’t include an age or a date which takes away from the weight of the experience. Later in the book Anna tells readers that her father dies in August of 1981 in his jail cell awaiting trial, without including her age. Both of these memories are important moments that change the direction of her life and her outlook on other events of her life. Without these details it takes away from the importance of these events. When telling a life narrative, age and time are important to determine the pace of the