Memoir

selflessness. While in Auschwitz, Wiesel hears word of a man called the Dutch Oberkappo. The interesting thing about the mentioning of this character is that Wiesel never came into contact with him, yet he chooses to include the Dutch 's story in his memoir anyway. The Dutch Oberkappo was the leader of another block in the concentration camp. He was caught storing weapons and initiating a rebellion against the SS. When caught, the Dutch Oberkappo refused to release any information on prisoners…

There is no doubt that Watchmen is a graphic novel rich with intertextuality. Not only does Watchmen make references to other superhero comics by parodying popular heroes, such as Captain America as the Comedian and Superman as Dr. Manhattan, but Watchmen is full of internal intertextuality, from the newspapers and advertisements that litter the streets of New York to the personal files, publications, and mementos of the heroes in the novel. The most significant of these documents are the…

said, “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” Faith plays a huge role in most people’s everyday life depending on their beliefs and their religion. A good example of a strong faith is in a memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In this memoir, Elie goes through heart-rending times where he needs to keep his faith strong to survive through the heartbreaking, painful, miserable events that soon happen later. Elie is saying to himself how empty his life is without his…

“The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future,” (Wiesel xv). This testimony is substantiated in the form of Night, a historical memoir written from the perspective of a fifteen year-old boy documenting his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp throughout 1944 and 1945. Elie Wiesel, the aforementioned adolescent and author, writes about the day he is liberated from the…

is a memoir written by Gaby Rodriguez with Jenna Glatzer and it provides a unique insight into the world of pregnant teens. Gaby’s book is very relatable to both pregnant teens and teens, it might provide a beacon of hope for other girls who are also struggling to defy stereotypes themselves. There are many young girls in America that were born into low class families. Many people probably…

In Frank McCourt’s memoir, Angela’s Ashes, Frank narrates his life starting at a very young age showing a strong biased opinion towards his parents. Throughout the memoir, Frank seems to show preference towards his mother when speaking of his parents’ pasts, actions, and attitudes. Though his preference towards his mother, Angela, is prominent, he does not hide the shame, pathetic hopelessness that he feels when looking at her. On the contrary, he seems to be emotionally detached from his father…

the discrepancy between the text and illustration gives readers a visual and more comprehensive insight of the camps, ultimately highlighting the appropriateness of writing the narrative in graphic memoir format. In terms of documenting the internment, Okubo had very limited options and the graphic memoir format was the optimal choice as it allowed her to keep a record visually and in print. She took the visual aesthetics of a graphic novel, which had hitherto been used for racist caricatures,…

At the end of his 1845 memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass explains that he hopes his book “may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system, hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of my brethren in bonds…” (95). Throughout his memoir, Frederick Douglass expertly expresses the true effects of slavery not only on the slaves but also on the slaveholders. This is most evident after Douglass is sent to Baltimore where he is given…

citizen and chemist, deported from his hometown Turin to Auschwitz in 1944. His memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, recounts the ten months he spent in Auschwitz prior to Soviet troops liberating the camp in January 1945. In the preface, Levi states his book does not aim to “formulate new accusations” on the nature of death camps but rather to “furnish documentation for a quiet study of certain aspects of the human mind”. His memoir stays true to this statement by going beyond just a recapitulation…

Anxiety can be a crippling disorder that can change your life in almost every way. “Monkey Mind” by Daniel Smith is a memoir written about his battle with anxiety. In his memoir Smith lays out what anxiety is to him and how it has impacted his life. He writes about many specific instances in which his anxiety was at its highest point in his life and what he did to try and combat it. Imagine feeling on edge and constantly nervous, or having an infinite number of potential situations and how…