Memoir

In this memoir of First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, the narrator faces many difficulties throughout her childhood and and because this is written by Loung as an adult it is very interesting to see her perception of herself at the age of five. This memoir talks about the tragedies that took place during the Khmer Rouge that was led by Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge tore families apart, killed innocent children and left many to die due to famine. Between 1975 and 1978, there was an estimated number…

To answer your question, if Oates had help writing this book because her mental state was different. I do not believe Oates had help from anyone to write this book. I believe that these are her true emotions that could only be written by her. I came to this conclusion based off the Michael Krasny's interview with Oates at the University of San Francisco. After watching this interview as one of the week 6 assignments, Oates described the process of writing this book. She descried how she kept a…

According to this definition of a pilgrimage, Elizabeth Gilbert’s journey was very much a pilgrimage. This is shown with many different examples throughout her memoir. For example, In the opening scene of the memoir Elizabeth found herself on her knees, on a bathroom floor, praying, and thinking the thought, “I don't want to be married anymore. I don't want to live in this big house. I don't want to have a baby” (pg 10). This was her breaking…

Representations of masculinity in Fight Club and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner dissertation proposal. The main focus of my dissertation will be on representations of masculinity in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The aim of the project is to be able to compare and contrast the representations of masculinity in both texts and to be able to determine whether they are inaccurate or whether they…

Was there ever a time you didn’t like to do something, but as you got older you started to love it more than you did as a child? When I was younger, I never liked to read, but now as I have gotten older, I read more and more different kinds of books and novels. My mother put my sister and me into a reading program in elementary school because our reading levels were lower than they should be. There were no criteria so we read books that were interesting to us, like the Given Tree by Shel…

within The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande. This book tells the true story of a girl that journeyed to the United States of America with her brother and sister, all as undocumented immigrants, in order to live with their father. The author of this memoir not only explains the privation she dealt with in her home land of Mexico, but she also demonstrates the racial division and other forms of adversity that were present within the United States of America, or El Otro…

painful experiences that the Jewish people went through during these dark years of history. For this reason, Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, decided on recollecting the dire memories he had of his stay at the concentration camps, into a memoir famously known as Night. The experiences he encountered has provided him with numerous life lessons, along with an altered perspective of the world.…

perspective of the Mexica as well as from the perspective of the Spanish. The Florentine Codex, compiled through the work of Bernardino de Sahagún, describes the Mexica perspective on the massacre. The Spanish perspective on the massacre comes from the memoirs of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was subordinate to conquistador Hernan Cortes during the conquest and published his recollections years later in 1581. These two perspectives are parallel in some ways, but notably distinct in others. The…

and accepting whom she. In the memoir North of Normal, Person depicts the hardships in life she experienced as a young child all the way until she left to be on her own at age thirteen. Between her mother’s constant heartbreaks, smoking pot and having a child at age thirteen herself, Person never had the guidance and support she needed at a young age. Person’s lack of a sturdy home and support affected her positively in the long run. Person wants…

In Jeanette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle the parenting style most apparent is permissive style. Both Rex and Rosemary have unique qualities that they imply on their children. When available Rex goes plays with the children, like they are friends (Cherry, “Four Styles of Parenting”). In the memoir Jeanette said, “My dad was not only a wimp, he came to play with the gang…” (59). Rex being so involved with the kids, he can be seen almost as a bigger friend rather than their father. In…