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What is a memoir?

What is a memoir? . What makes it different from an autobiography or biography?. A memoir…. Focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, time, animal, or object. Explains the significance of the relationship.

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What is a memoir?

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  1. What is a memoir? What makes it different from an autobiography or biography?

  2. A memoir… • Focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, time, animal, or object. • Explains the significance of the relationship. • Leaves the reader with an impression of a specific subject, place or time period • Emphasizes the subjects feelings, insights, epiphanies and/or transformations • Brings the subject of the memoir to life through details, including sensory imagery, that set the scene and create vivid impressions of people, setting and events. • Maintains a first person point of view. • Includes personal conversations, reflections and anecdotes. • Includes flashback or background information to clarify events and feelings.

  3. All Souls • Fill in the blank…. • I’d say the most significant moment/scene in All Souls is when___________________ because _________________________ (Try to recall specific, powerful details or images that resonated with you.)

  4. The Color of Water • Fill in the blank…. • I’d say the most significant moment/scene in The Color of Water is when_____________ because _________________________ (Try to recall specific, powerful details or images that resonated with you.)

  5. All Souls vs. The Color of Water • Which narrator “sucked you in” more effectively? Why? Be specific about what made his voice the stronger of the two for you.

  6. Exit Card Look back at our discussion of identity…. • What would you say was the BIGGEST influence onMichael Patrick MacDonald’s identity? • On James McBride’s? • What about you? What would you say is the BIGGEST influence on your identity at this point in time?

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