1. What is a memoir essay? How is it different from pure memoir?
A memoir essay is basically a piece of work you make from a memory of your past. It is an all first person, personal essay based on a significant memory. The use of personal experience for reflection makes it different from a pure memoir. 2. What is “navel gazing”? Why does navel gazing make for poor writing?
Navel-gazing is like spending too much time considering your own thoughts and feelings. Focusing too much on the problems and how they relate back to you. It makes for poor writing because you are being too much into yourself and you forget to take into account those around you and your audience. 3. What are Moore’s three tips for writing a memoir essay? List and …show more content…
I know my answer as soon as I hear that question and that’s why it would be easy to write an essay on. My number one fear is failure. Everywhere and everything I do, I always have a fear that I will fail of some sort in the back of my mind. Failure as in being unsuccessful and failure as in falling down. I can combine this with with pop culture tv series America’s Got Talent. This tv show is the prime example of either passing or failing. I would get up on the stage, in front of a huge crowd, do something I would be one hundred percent confident in knowing I would be successful in doing , but then thinking about my fear of failing and I would freeze either of anxiety or …show more content…
Right from the start of her piece, she gives a comparison to many different things such as, saying she didn’t feel like the patients on tv who wear headscarfs. She simply just explained how she felt as a person with cancer. She has immense detail and I believe she does a great job with showing and not telling. Throughout the piece, I imagined pictures from her words and that’s why I say she succeeds.
2. How does Lowe avoid being both a hero and a victim in her essay?
Honestly, she gives no evidence of being a hero more than she gives evidence of being a victim. I would ask myself, a victim of what? Cancer, obviously. The results of cancer although could be evidence that she is a hero but still not saying she is one. In my opinion, she avoids being both a hero and a victim because she is making her words subside and sound less severe.
3. How does using a pop culture icon (in this case, the Deadpool movie) allow Lowe to address her cancer in a way that avoids navel-gazing?
Lowe does not show any form of navel-gazing. She compares every thought and feeling and puts an example beside it to let us see it from her point of view. She doesn’t ramble on about her own thoughts and feelings instead she includes examples from the pop culture movie, Deadpool and includes descriptive words to let us see what she is talking
A memoir essay is basically a piece of work you make from a memory of your past. It is an all first person, personal essay based on a significant memory. The use of personal experience for reflection makes it different from a pure memoir. 2. What is “navel gazing”? Why does navel gazing make for poor writing?
Navel-gazing is like spending too much time considering your own thoughts and feelings. Focusing too much on the problems and how they relate back to you. It makes for poor writing because you are being too much into yourself and you forget to take into account those around you and your audience. 3. What are Moore’s three tips for writing a memoir essay? List and …show more content…
I know my answer as soon as I hear that question and that’s why it would be easy to write an essay on. My number one fear is failure. Everywhere and everything I do, I always have a fear that I will fail of some sort in the back of my mind. Failure as in being unsuccessful and failure as in falling down. I can combine this with with pop culture tv series America’s Got Talent. This tv show is the prime example of either passing or failing. I would get up on the stage, in front of a huge crowd, do something I would be one hundred percent confident in knowing I would be successful in doing , but then thinking about my fear of failing and I would freeze either of anxiety or …show more content…
Right from the start of her piece, she gives a comparison to many different things such as, saying she didn’t feel like the patients on tv who wear headscarfs. She simply just explained how she felt as a person with cancer. She has immense detail and I believe she does a great job with showing and not telling. Throughout the piece, I imagined pictures from her words and that’s why I say she succeeds.
2. How does Lowe avoid being both a hero and a victim in her essay?
Honestly, she gives no evidence of being a hero more than she gives evidence of being a victim. I would ask myself, a victim of what? Cancer, obviously. The results of cancer although could be evidence that she is a hero but still not saying she is one. In my opinion, she avoids being both a hero and a victim because she is making her words subside and sound less severe.
3. How does using a pop culture icon (in this case, the Deadpool movie) allow Lowe to address her cancer in a way that avoids navel-gazing?
Lowe does not show any form of navel-gazing. She compares every thought and feeling and puts an example beside it to let us see it from her point of view. She doesn’t ramble on about her own thoughts and feelings instead she includes examples from the pop culture movie, Deadpool and includes descriptive words to let us see what she is talking