- The major difference between memoir and fiction is that one is true and the other is made up. Why is it necessary to notice this difference? (In the Pushcart anthology, the stories are marked "fiction.")
- We've spent some time talking about rhetorical questions in the recent past. What do you make of Lia Purpura's questions from p. 89 of her essay: "Am I alone in wanting to turn and adjust faucet handles? Repair fixtures with a wrench and a smear of putty? Yank a towel on a roller to produce a clean spot?"
- Purpura discusses several famous artworks. Like Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893:
Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night (1889):
da Vinci's Mona Lisa (1503-06)
And I couldn't find the photograph that she's talking about, but this is what I imagine it looks like:
What do these images have in common?
- She also quotes from several outside texts, a poem by William Carlos Williams and Edvard Munch's journal (w/ the crossed out words still intact). What is she doing w/ these outside texts?
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
Yes, that's the complete poem. What do you make of it?
Yes, I agreed your point of view that fiction is not the reality of life in most of the parts but taking some stoic attachments which affect the life style and sometimes use as thrill and courage and memoir is totally your thoughts you faced in past or your love one's ways and words which always find in your memory. An unforgottable touch, sensations, calm, relief, sadness and special occassions which remember your relationship. While fiction always astonish your mind that how it is possible.
ReplyDeleteRhetorical questions remember the involvement of author to the reality which convience the viewers to his/her original work and keep attention towards her/his piece of writing.In "The Stream" author caught my attention towards her sense of creation that she involves me in her views, images and concepts. Its give appreciation to her.In her images, dim light and loneliness are common which gives sadness to the viewers which break up her personal approach to a positive aspects. Her attachment to different artists shows that she is able to read and learn variety of work and compose herself as an author who understand the values.
I'd say there could definitely be more to read more about the demands of this wheel barrel (barrow?). For example, is the rain collected in the barrel because of inactivity or is it because of someone missing from their duties and demands on them or are they gone?
ReplyDeleteIt's necessary to notice the difference between a memoir and fiction because as readers we want to separate what is real and what is being made up. When Lia uses those rhetorical questions on page 89, it gets the readers thinking and we become stuck on what she really means.
ReplyDeleteI think most memoir have fiction in it. I feel no one tells the whole truth or atleast they tell their truth. How many times have we told stories and we leave parts out or edit it. I know someone personally that got nominated for an award and they published a short memoir about her. A lot of her personal friends knew it was overly polished. Fiction I don’t feel is fully made up. A lot of people are inspired by real life events but use their writing to give alternative endings.
ReplyDeleteI agree because sometimes people may feel to exaggerate on a certain part to give and more of an interesting story and I agree when you say fiction isn't completely made up because currently in my collection i was inspired from someone personal story and turning into fiction
DeleteThis is an excellent point, Tyesha. I agree w/ you.
DeleteI disagree with you, because there is time that people feel the author are exaggeration their real life story, but if we weren't the one that goes through it how would you know that they are fake? I've see people that go through tragedy in real life that even an author couldn't made up because they are too tragic that reader will not believed it is real.
DeleteThe major difference between a memoir and a fiction story is the fact that memoirs are often times more personal. It is a significant event that happened in your life that you are writing about. As for fiction, it is something that often never happened. There is a thin between the two because the moment you make a minor change to your memoir, it officially becomes a fiction story.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyesha in that sense. We often leave the smaller details that presents our image in a negative way. This hinders our ability to truly write about something that happened to you without being unbiased.
I do agree that the difference between a memoir and a fiction story is that a memoirs is often tell from our own life event, and a story can be made up and it is fake. From my opinion it is necessary to notice the difference because memoir is a way to trace author's' path and the life they are going through, also the reader can understand how the author had changed from the beginning to end. a fiction might just be made up to tell a story or a theory, the reader can enjoy reading the stories and not to be fear that it's a real life event.
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