6 word memoir

Takeing Wrong Turns Makes The Adventure

My six word memoir is Taking Wrong Turns Makes The Adventure.   There have been times where I set out to go somewhere and then I took a wrong turn and went somewhere different.  Whether it is traveling somewhere or walking around town the journey is not a means to the end but what you do along the way.  Sometimes you can make set plans and other times you should just go with things.  I’ve taken wrong turns and just kept following that direction and its more interesting. 

 

 

 



5 Looks On A Book Sherman Alexie

Oppression, Poverty, Choices, Chances, Hope

                These five words describe the Sherman Alexies’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”  The main character Junior lives on a reservation that is full of oppression and poverty.  Junior’s reservation is poor and lacks the resources for him to have choices and chances.  Junior must deal with the oppression of his reservation school system.   Junior is sick of being poor and hopes for a better life.  Junior decides to leave the reservation and go to an all-white school where he will have the choices and chances to have a better life. 

I drew this sketch that represents my 5 words.  This is my own drawing of a cartoon from the book that shows hope.  In my sketch I have arrows pointing one direction saying oppression and poverty and in the other direction it shows arrows saying chances, choices, hope.  The arrows with oppression and poverty are pointing to the reservation because those are the things Junior will deal with if he stays on the reservation.  The arrows showing chances, choices, and hope are pointing to Reardan where Junior will be able to have a better life.  The sign showing 22 miles is meant to show the way to Reardan because Reardan is 22 miles away from the Reservation. 

 

Class Topic: I, Tweet, Therfore I Am

 

In my English 100 class we read an article called “I, tweet, Therefore I am.”  This article discusses how people use social media sites to convey a fake persona of how they want others to perceive them.  The author, Peggy Orenstein, discusses that when she tweeted, she was describing a situation in a way that she wanted others to react to.  In today’s era of social media, people are broadcasting the smallest details of their life.  Even though a situation may be meaningless, people will broadcast it and try to make it seem meaningful.   Many people live less in the moment of what is really happening, but more in the moment of what they want people perceive of them.