Memoir

An Abbreviated, Non-Autobiographical Memoir of Alice Coltrane The Coltrane name remains ever-pervasive in the music community, dredging up echoes of wailing saxophone cries ahead of their time – and ahead of poor Tommy Flanagan. Countless musicians have found inspiration in John Coltrane’s career and his second wife, Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), is no exception. Accomplished musician in her own right as a pianist, organist, and harpist, she made a successful career for herself prior to and…

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain is an autobiographical novel that follows the stages of Mark Lewis’s life as an addict. Lewis begins the novel from when he was a young boy exploring the effects alcohol had on his behavior, then a young student experimenting with psychoactive drugs in San Francisco, becoming a heroin addict, and finally overcoming his extreme opiate addiction and becoming a respectable neuroscientist. His journey from the age of fifteen to thirty involves taking every drug he could…

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…

MEMOIR My first day of school began more than 10 years ago and by that time I was in my native country named Honduras. The school were very poor that it could only afford two teachers by that time. I was a quitted kid in the classroom and I used to get distracted all the time by the girls in my classroom, I used to share my snack with the girls and with the teacher. Having starting my schooling at small age were one of my big dream because I was born with what I wanted to do in the planet since…

poem she refers back to on many occasions to emphasize the humanity of death. “It was far, far too pale, and still, and, well, dead, yes dead. She was dead, dead, dead, dead…” This is a quote taken from Anthony Rapp’s autobiography, Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent, which also shows an example of the humanity of death. Although they bear the same topic of death, the differences between the way Joan Didion and Anthony Rapp reacted to the deaths of their loved one is…

depending on their interests, professions, sexuality, race, etc. Me, being a broke college student living in a big city I get to cross paths with a plethora of different people with different backstories and different substance. In “He Defies You Still: Memoir of a Sissy” by Tommi Avicolli Mecca I ended up personally connecting to this reading more than…

Andrew Smith’s statement, referring to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, can also be applied to James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Both works of later-Romantic Gothic, these novels deal with the social impact of their protagonists’ ‘selfhood’, or ‘inner life’, rather than how the outward sublime influences the ‘inner self’. Instead of seeking ‘transcendence’ in sublime nature, Victor Frankenstein and Robert Wringhim aim to transcend their social and spiritual…

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is a narrative of survival of a 12-year-old boy separated from his family and caught in the mess of the Sierra Leone civil war in the early 1990s. His story reveals his traumatizing and shocking experiences as a soldier driven by anger and revenge for the loss of his village and his culture, only later able to overcome everything that had happened and the things he’d done. Ishmael’s cultural connection to storytelling was ultimately what…

Poverty A thirty-three year old republican, James David Vance relived his poverty influenced childhood as he wrote the 2016 Memoir; Hillbilly Elegy. Vance who is an ex marine, Ohio University graduate and a Yale University graduate, never thought he would make it past high school. Vance’s book Hillbilly elegy is entirely relevant to America’s youth because many need to be educated on the subject of poverty. The book also gives a light of hope to students that are struggling in school and at home…

Essay 2 The author’s mother, Joy, and the other Moore’s mother Marry had very different styles of parenting, these styles of parenting would drastically affect their children’s life. In Moore’s Memoir The Other Wes Moore the mothers play a big part in the boy’s life, they are the ones who teach right from wrong, and the ones who teach the consequences of their actions. One parent teachers her kid better than the other though, and that’s why they had different lifestyles. Although both mothers…