Why do people write memoirs?
What power is there in telling our own stories
Throughout history, people have been telling the stories of their life experiences. There are two main reasons why people do this. First is for personal reflection. By telling their own stories, people can learn things about themselves. Expressing emotions and events on paper is extremely helpful in comprehending the events in one's life and why they are significant. Also, memoirs are used for people to create a legacy. Writing about one's life gives a person a feeling of place in the world, as well as a sense of importance that their story can be read and remembered forever. Even after a person has left the world, their story remains and their own words can be remembered forever.
A memoir of a person's life is extremely powerful. It is significant for both the writer and the reader. The writer can express emotions and experiences that will now live on forever. It is extremely powerful to think that even once you are gone, people can still read your words and know your stories. Memoirs are also very powerful things for the readers. Not only do you get to visit events in history or just in a person's life, but you get to do it through their eyes, as if you are inside their head, experiencing what they do. This is a very personal way to see a situation and very powerful for a reader.
3 comments:
I like your idea about memoirs being a permanent glimpse into an event in history. After reading my History textbook forever last night, it is very clear to me that reading from a person's point of view is a much more insightful and meaningful way to impart information about the past than through a disembodied narrator-voice.
I really liked how you mentioned that other people could benefit from other peoples memoirs.Like how they could learn about different ideas in a profession.
I liked your idea that memoirs help the writer gets to know them self better. It is not something that is obvious but I think it is true. I also think that your idea that memoirs preserve emotions. That was something that I had never even thought about.
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