Assignment F Patti Smith calls the book‚ Just Kids‚ a memoir rather than an autobiography. Her book is almost poetic in nature and written in a beautiful and engaging way. From the first pages‚ the reader is drawn to her words and imagery. In describing one of her first memories‚ that of a swan on a pond‚ she says‚ “the river emptied into a wide lagoon and I saw upon its surface a singular miracle. A long curving neck rose from a dress of white plumage.” There are‚ of course many facts about
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Throughout the memoir the reader begins to learn the internal and external struggles that Cheryl is battling. Internally Cheryl is struggling to relinquish the relationship she had with her ex-husband‚ which also means the letting go of the person that she used to be when she was with him and learning to forgive herself for the mistakes that she made in her marriage. Another internal struggle was Cheryl’s desire to have a spiritual connection with her mother and become the woman that her mother thought
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Partition pangs On the face of it‚ the memoir promises a compelling reading: partition prostration‚ deserted homes‚ lost relationships‚ monstrous communalism and traumatic widowhood. But the reason A Life Long Ago‚ the translated version of Sunanda Sikdar’s Dayamoyeer Katha‚ falls short of a fine specimen of the partition literature is a rather non-serious depiction of an extraordinary event. The blurb‚ the translator’s note and the acknowledgement point at the author’s profound sense of loss
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To be honest‚ I hadn’t heard the name before‚ Ismat Chughtai‚ though it sounded vaguely familiar. So I gladly picked up her “memoirs”—no‚ I wouldn’t define the book as an autobiography—more so because it is the work of an Indian woman‚ trying to create an identity for herself in a time when it not only seemed difficult‚ but improbable. Like I mentioned‚ it is not really an autobiography‚ but more like an account of her life growing up in Jodhpur‚ and also in Aligarh and Lucknow‚ where she studied
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This memoir was written to bring awareness to the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) through one individual’s personal struggle to overcome and recover for the disorder. “Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a condition characterized by difficulties in regulating emotion. This difficulty leads to severe‚ unstable mood swings‚ impulsivity and instability‚ poor self-image and stormy personal relationships” (NAMI…). Along with unstable emotional investigations‚ the memoir addresses
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El Presidente vs. Supremo: Reflections on Conflicting Narratives Last year‚ two films came out in Philippine cinema that totally reflect the disparate perspectives on two historical figures in Philippine history—one about the founder of the Katipunan‚ and the other about the President of the Philippine Revolutionary Government. I watched Supremo (2012) in an SM cinema on the first week of December‚ while I saw El Presidente (2012) during the Metro Manila Film Festival. The mayaman vs. mahirap
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Most memoirs are written with the intention of telling the author’s significant experiences‚ each conveying their individual purpose. In both Jeannette Walls’‚ The Glass Castle‚ and Mary Karr’s‚ The Liars Club‚ the authors utilize their dysfunctional childhoods to achieve their independent purposes. Walls uses numerous strategies to achieve her purpose of the memoir being a way to accept the past and to not let the past define oneself. Unlike Walls‚ Karr also uses her strategies to show the endurance
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Non-Fiction If representing and exploring the “real” by writing in the genre of creative non-fiction is your goal‚ we hope these tips about what creative non-fiction is‚ as well as some pointers on a few genres that are considered creative non-fiction (memoir and the personal essay) can help you. We have also included some links to some well-known examples of creative non-fiction to give you a sense of what is out there. An Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction What “is” creative non-fiction? * Creative
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powerful unforgettable moments in order to achieve his purpose. Wesiel wants to help readers come to a greater understanding of the Holocaust and make them think about how Dehumanization is shown across the story. In the memoir Night‚ the author Elie Wiesel wrote the memoir to show that in tough times‚ people only think about themselves‚ thus creating a Dehumanization. In this scene‚ Eliezer sees the babies being thrown into the crematorium. “ A truck driver close and unloaded it’s hold: small
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Persepolis is a postmodern work because of the style in which Marjane Satrapi presents her memoir‚ in the form of a graphic novel. Rather that retell factual stories with certainty‚ she is able to convey her childhood by giving her own experiences that encapture what her emotions and recollection of what the events meant‚ through images and dialogue. Satrapi makes a cohesive and moving memoir through her alternate style of the novel. The style of it makes the retelling of the story much more abstract
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