Memoir

Throughout the Memoir “Night” Elie Weisel depicts the harsh realities of the Jewish Holocaust, and what happened behind closed doors at Buna, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. There is a wide variety of different reasons, as too why the Memoir is so effective. Elie goes into graphic details of the horrendous life and situations he faced daily. He shed light on what was ignored and silenced for so many years. As everything begins to escalade you’ll start to feel the impact of the unbelievable struggles…

Jennifer Cooper _ My Worthless Profession My favorite part of My Worthless Profession is how Jenn expresses the deeper thoughts of the protagonist. Throughout her piece, I feel a strong connection between me and narrator. It’s like the third person omniscience perspective and we can also see how the view of others effected on her growth as an individual. I can see her purpose of dividing the paragraph into shorter lengths, but in my own opinion, this can be a double-edge sword. Although it…

The authors from the four memoirs overcame their childhood obstacles by bonding with family members. Gary Soto accepted working in the fields with his family. Laurence Yep realized that his father accepted him after the rat hunt. Barack Obama accepted his father. Julia Alvarez accepted going to the United States of America. Authors from the four memoirs describe overcoming obstacles to teach readers that it is possible to overcome any problem. Gary Soto accepted working in the fields with his…

childhood were devoid of real danger and conflict. Given my upbringing as comparison, it was a largely eye opening experience reading and experiencing the harrowing account of adolescence described in vivid detail in Ishmael Beah’s 2007 memoir A Long Way Gone. The memoir is about how Beah himself was indoctrinated into becoming a child soldier during the decade long Sierra Leone Civil War. At the age of only twelve, Beah’s village is attacked by militants and he is forced to flee with a…

In “‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried,” Catherine Calloway discusses the interpretations of the genre and reality versus fiction in Tim O’Brien’s memoire. In her analysis, Calloway introduces the term metafiction to explain the genre of the book. While it is a war memoire, The Things They Carried makes the reader question the real and fictional parts of the author’s narrative. Metafiction is a genre that explores the possible functionality of the memoire, in…

The memoir is set during World War II, a time when Jews and any other non-Aryan person were rounded up by the Nazi party and thrown into concentration camps; Elie Wiesel is one of these Jews. Like most Jews, Elie is religiously faithful, but unlike many he…

Reflective statement on Eva Hoffman’s Lost in translation From my experience on reading this memoir of a young girl moving to whole different place with another culture, another language, and another friends. I myself experienced moving from my original country Egypt to the United States which was a really hard journey for me making new friends and having to live in a culture that is completely different than my original culture. Same with Hoffman and her family, it was really difficult for…

Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a memoir about the author’s journey of self-discovery hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail, is a literary piece that has resonated with readers around the world since its publication, especially the female ones. The memoir is indeed deeply relevant to modern feminists as it addresses several aspects of the feminist movement. Wild’s removal of gendered stereotypes from its characters, expression of female sexuality, raising of awareness of women’s rights and issues and…

accompanies getting the opposing team out. Imagine getting smacked in the jaw by someone's head, and then feeling an excruciating pain for the rest of your life. Lucy Grealy experienced such traumatic events and reflects on them in her memoir, Autobiography of a Face. Within the memoir, she explains how this simple and quick injury has changed her life. Lucy Grealy includes vivid storytelling within Autobiography of a Face to effectively illustrate her life growing up as a child, inform the…

The film adaption of The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is an inspiring movie about the story of Jean Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke that leads to him being paralysed from head to toe. The film adaption of the book written by Jean-Dominique Bauby accurately depicts who Jean-Dominique Bauby was, settings, and his love life.The film used flashbacks, imagery, and portraying the portrayal of Bauby as man who was coming to terms with his condition. The use of flashbacks in the beginning and…