He is always faced with the problem of looking at someone else’s situation through his eyes first whether it is his brother or mother; he ultimately alters the real meaning behind the situation to his own bias. Wideman is up front about these issues, he wants his audience to feel what he feels as he speaks to his brother and mother. Wideman struggles to hear them out for who they really are and how they became the way they did. I believe Wideman does this in order to give the reader some common ground and in turn let the reader take something away from his message. Wideman’s style of writing is brought about in a confusing manner, but he does this in order to show how he perceived his family story and how his writing problems come about during that. The overall message to take away from this prose is that questioning yourself while writing is a key step in making sure that you can face your writing problems and use them to improve your paper so that it has that true deep meaning and message that your audience
He is always faced with the problem of looking at someone else’s situation through his eyes first whether it is his brother or mother; he ultimately alters the real meaning behind the situation to his own bias. Wideman is up front about these issues, he wants his audience to feel what he feels as he speaks to his brother and mother. Wideman struggles to hear them out for who they really are and how they became the way they did. I believe Wideman does this in order to give the reader some common ground and in turn let the reader take something away from his message. Wideman’s style of writing is brought about in a confusing manner, but he does this in order to show how he perceived his family story and how his writing problems come about during that. The overall message to take away from this prose is that questioning yourself while writing is a key step in making sure that you can face your writing problems and use them to improve your paper so that it has that true deep meaning and message that your audience