Face Of Terror

In “How to Write a Memoir” William Zinsser gives very detailed and important advice to writers interested in writing a memoir. He gives the specific advice of “Be yourself,” “Speak Freely,” and “Think Small” (Zinsser, 2, 4, 6). These tips advise writers to not only think about what they want to say in their story but also how they want to tell their story. Many memoir authors choose to follow this advice and write their story using these points, but many do not. In the memoir “A Summer Life”, Gary Soto follows Zinsser’s writing advice through his use of writing from the point of view of a young child, speaking freely about his early life events, and writing about his life in small structure chapters.

Of all the forms of literature, the most interesting might be the fairytales, or the science fiction thriller about robots. However, there lacks the sense of truth, in a way blocking the reader from true connection with the story. Memoir is real, memoir is true, and memoir can range from any end of the ocean in structure and theme.

Literary works have become one of the most preferred ways for people to express themselves and voice their concerns and opinions on societal issues. Through such pieces of work, authors are able to educate and critique the society at large, often forcing people to reconsider their views on certain matters. This has an overall effect of pushing them to reconsider the effect of their actions and errors as regards the issues in question. For others, writing about real life situations is most effective in communicating with their readers. Victims of racial discrimination may opt to put their ordeals down in black and white, mush the same way those who find themselves at the receiving end of sexual harassment may choose to write about their experiences. Arguably, the effect achieved is greater, in opposition to that of works of fiction. Even where a book is fictitious, more insight and connection to real life is achieved if the story is built around real life events and situations. Nancy Mairs does excellent in expressing herself through her spiritual autobiography; Waist-High in the World.

The reason for this is because it may still leave the same impact on a reader as if it were. Two stories in this book, “The Man I Killed”, and “Speaking of Courage”, are both examples of how the ‘story-truth’ is just as important as the ‘happening-truth’.

We live in a world where we have socially constructed what beauty is and it can manifests onto what our physical appearance “should” look like. Lucy’s biggest challenge was accepting how her face looked. She deals with this tremendously throughout her life from the countless surgeries, negative remarks from her peers, lack of affection and self-love. Her deformed face starts to consume her life as she struggles with her self-concept and self-esteem.

I have always loved stories. I love to read them, write them, and tell them. The telling part, though, quickly became a problem for me as a little kid because I ended up labeled a “compulsive liar.” But in my 5-year-old mind, I wasn’t lying, I was telling the more interesting version of what had happened. When I was six I wrote my first “book”. It was ten chapters and ten pages long and told the story a king who lost his jewels and hired a pair of ninja-detectives to recover them. When I was eight I wrote a memoir – although I didn’t know what a “memoir” was at the time – about a recent trip to Tuscan, Arizona. However, it wasn’t until the fifth grade that I really started writing short stories. The first one I wrote was about a town in Australia ruled by an

This quote, written by author Kate Angell, stresses that outer beauty is only the fragile glass of inner beauty, which is the reality. When reading this quote, I remembered a chapter from the book that really resembled and related to it. Something that could relate to anyone in any social-encountered situation, and give a new meaning to beauty in itself.

People tend to relate readings to personal experiences of theirs to become connected to the story. Some authors will do the same with their stories, as including details from their lives draws a connection to their writing, in turn enhancing the quality of their writing. Good quality writings will feature details from the author's history, as the author wants to draw the reader in by having them relate to what is at hand. “A Family Supper”, “Story of an Hour” and “Everyday Use” are examples of past experiences from the author present in their writing.

the stance of beauty in today’s world. It is in this quote that Confucius said, “Everything has

“Beauty calls with a sirens voice, and our longing to abandon all and chase after it is almost overwhelming. But we find that beauty is like the rainbow’s ends: it beckons but eludes. It’s a shimmering soap bubble that disappears in our grasping hand. In the presence of beauty we are like a child which our nose pressed to the window of a toy store. We look and yearn, but we find a barrier that prevents the full experience of what is before us. As much as we long to immerse ourselves in the beauty we see, we can’t do it.” – In Search for Certainty by Josh McDowell and Thomas Williams

Beauty is important to each of us individually.For example, my dad has a nineteen-eighty four Chevrolet truck. I have never liked that truck , but my dad accordingly to him he sees something good in that truck. Even Though, he loves that truck more than he loves me, he takes care of it like if its fourth millions of dollars. I have always told my dad to get rid of that ugly truck, but my grandfather gave it to him before he passed away.My dad remembers of his father when he sees his truck, it's ugly for me, but for him it's something special that he would always keep.

Throughout the story, two reoccurring themes are experience and opportunity. The narrator believes that fiction should reflect the opportunities of life not available to previous generations. In comparison, her father prefers the works of authors with whom he can relate, the kind of writers who spoke of a

There are many misconceptions about beauty and its importance, in todays society. In a time when physical beauty can be of utter importance, we seem to be at a loss of it. What is beauty and where can it be found? Can we see it in the air we breathe, the brilliant oceans, in the striking sunsets, or even in one another? With the weight of beauty in today's society, the common use of expressions used to describe life's brilliance is expected. The many expressions used to discuss beauty such as "beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" and "beauty runs only skin deep" all stimulate different opinions and create controversy, but the most notorious of all, being that "beauty doesn't last forever." Sheri S. Tepper's Beauty reinstates the many

The meaning of beauty and how it applies to the viewer varies among people. Leo Tolstoy

Narrative genres, such as the novel or the short story, are born out of the very powerful human need to tell stories, out of our fundamental desire to give shape to experience in order to understand it and share it with the community. Through story telling early communities made sense of natural phenomena, unexpected events, and personal experience. Storytelling enabled them to pass on valuable information and to keep the memory of their ancestors alive down the generations. Storytelling satisfies our need to understand and control our origins and destiny; it enables us to meaningfully shape our individual and communal experiences (to extract meaning from experiences that can appear senseless, bewildering or even