Autobiography

As I read Bill Lucas’s autobiography, I was amazed by the fact that Lucas could just not catch a break. Not only did Lucas’s eyesight have a significant impact on his life, but between frequently moving around, losing his mother, and being unable to find work and keep his music group together, Lucas’s life was far from easy. However, it is the obstacles that Lucas faced that makes him the perfect person to be a blues singer. It seems like singing the blues was a great way for Lucas to get his…

Ever wonder if you have something in common with a person from a book? Well I have, and I figured out I have the same characteristics as Tim Tebow. Even though we have some differences, we have a lot in common. We are seventy-three percent in common. Tim Tebow and I have several similar qualities, I have only chosen three aspects. Tim Tebow and I are athletic, christian, and intelligent. To start, Mr. Tebow and I are both extremely athletic. Tim played football, basketball, and baseball…

George Tabori’s Autodafé: Erinnerungen is a unique look into the world of autobiographies. Up to this point, we have read a wide variety of autobiographical themes and methods of narration. Each has its own characteristics and portrays the author’s life in a different form. Tabori’s book is no different. Not only does it provide a new style or method of narration but also discusses a wide variety of different themes. To understand this book as a whole, one must examine the aspects that make it…

For this textual analysis I have chosen to compare The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Jay Gatsby for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This comparison of Ben Franklin to that of Jay Gatsby will examine the way in which cultural factors such as morality, technology, and societal norms of their respective time periods affected their worldview and ultimately set the stage for how their stories are told and ultimately the outcome of their respective lives. It is my contention that Ben…

through as a slave. Washington’s autobiography is however different because prior to common beliefs, Washington argues in his book that the black race did not hate the white people despite the cruelty they were put through. Up from slavery paints a picture of a society that had grown accustomed to each other where by the black people cared for their masters just as one would care for their family. The issue of racism and discrimination is clear in Washington’s autobiography. He gives accounts of…

Misty Copeland is a woman who defied all the odds and ended up becoming the first African-American principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. In her autobiography Life in Motion, Copeland depicts her life as a young woman before her days of ballet until recently. This book particularly stands out as a commendable autobiography because Misty writes this book as a story a form of empowerment to “the little brown girls” who do not think that they are able to fight despite all of the odds.…

A Dictated Deviation from Autobiographical Tradition: An Analysis of The Book of Margery Kempe When readers observe the traditional styles of an autobiography, there is a presumption that the voice of the writer will demonstrate a first-person point of view into their life’s journey with chronological recollections that led them to a significant part of their lives. The Book of Margery Kempe can be described as a complete deviation from the traditional style of an autobiographical novel as…

The first autobiography he wrote, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, is the best known and most influential book. According to Matlack (1979), just in America alone, five thousand copies were sold (pg. 15). This autobiography was inspired by one of his fights with his slave owner. As I earlier stated, Douglass got into a brutal fight with the master that was known…

connection with books. Even as a child, Welty was inseparable from reading books. She would read anything she could get her hands on. Eudora Welty grew up in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1900’s and passed away in 2001. In a passage from Welty’s autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, she recalls how her relationship with her mother, interactions with Mrs. Calloway, the stern librarian, and how her passion for reading and books, later influences and shapes her literary voice as a writer…

A man’s greatest critic is always himself. Although Frederick Douglass’ has a reputation for being a very proud man, there are a few moments in his work where he criticizes himself. After the Civil War and the eradication of slavery, Douglass felt as if his better days were behind him. He spent decades fighting for the abolition of slavery, but shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation that issue had been resolved. In The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, he wrote, “I felt that I had…