Memoir

Many memoirs about the Holocaust were published by Holocaust survivors. There are countless videos, books, and articles telling over the stories of those that survived and perished during the war. Many of these works show the heroism of many people to save relatives, others and themselves. Some of these people were non-Jews hiding and helping those in need. Many Jews helped their fellow brothers in whatever way possible, many times risking their own lives. Through all the accounts written about…

support her large family handled by a single mother after her father died. The market revolution caused a vast and devastating effect upon the daily lives of the ordinary citizen as the work was shifted from home to factories. As she mentions in her memoir she had to give up most of her childhood so did the other girls who worked with her in the mills. They were paid a dollar and a quarter a week for the expenses which likely was not enough. To continue their education to high school…

experience of the american soldiers in the vietnam war. O'brien masterfully blends the genres of fiction and memoir to describe the struggles of the vietnam war from a american perspective. in the novel the things they carried is a book filled with short stories and, the book is a challenging book that appears from a variety of literary traditions. O'Brien show his readers both a war memoir but also has some fictional Tim O’Brien introduce this story by saying that it is true. After rat…

Documenting his life story as a young man in 1920’s Paris, Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir, A Moveable Feast brings an affluence of detailed encounters and memories he had during his visit. It also describes the lifestyle he remembers as an aspiring writer with his first wife, Hadley. In the “Fragments” section of the restored edition of A Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes, “If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction…” This book is factual, but he has fictionalized some parts…

The Happiest Refugee is a memoir of hope and challenge. Anh and his families’ lives have greatly changed by the impact of the Vietnam War causing them to flee their homes and communities as refuges in the desperation of seeking out a better life for themselves as well as their families. When Anh was a small child, his family gambled everything in their desire to escape the crippling poverty in Vietnam on a barely seaworthy boat crowded with 40 others. “I look across the water and am mesmerised…

Essayist and author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has written many works. They vary from essays to books and he uses his platform to discuss cultural, political, and social issues. Two of his major works are his essay, “The Case for Reparations”, and his memoir, “The Beautiful Struggle”. Although both literary works are different in genre, structure, topic, and additional aspects, they connect with one another in multiple ways. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines reparations as “the act of making…

in Women’s Memory, lets you see the impact that women had in the French Revolution. Published in 1993 by BasicBooks, Blood Sisters is a compilation and analysis of nearly one hundred memoirs, all written by women. The book focuses on giving a different perspective to the French Revolution. Because men wrote most memoirs at that time, the women featured share their side of the Revolution. The women in this book very from chapter to chapter, some are royalists who are willing to do anything to…

Published after his assassination historians used it as the definitive source of information pertaining to the crisis due to the role of its author. However, there were many errors in the memoir that are now known due to more information being released about the crisis. Dr. Sheldon Stern, a JFK Library historian, states that Robert Kennedy manipulated the historical record in order to portray himself and his brother in a better light (33-34)…

with lung cancer he decided to fulfill his dream of being an author. In his personal memoir “When Breath Becomes Air”, Paul Kalanithi uses personal experiences to explain the effect of death on the living through logos, ethos, and pathos. When the doctors informed Kalanithi that he had stage IV lung cancer he knew his time was running out, so he decided to do the one thing he had left: write a book.The poignant memoir starts off with a forward written by Abraham Verghese and then continues…

I haven’t read many memoirs. Yes Please might be the first memoir that I read and boy, I’m glad I did it. I first knew Amy Poehler from Mean Girls, but I came to like her because of Parks and Recreation. I love her works in Parks and Rec that it inspired me to read this book. She is an actress, comedian, director, producer, writer; she is many things. But her passions are mostly comedy and improv. In this book, Poehler talks about her journey navigating the showbiz. There are chapters about how…