Memoirs Talk

This week in class we talked all about memoirs. We discussed what a memoir was and took a look at a lot of different memoirs. There was one memoir that sounded interesting to me and that is Running With Scissors. The way my teacher explained it made it seem like it was the best book ever with it's twisted humor and interesting story line. Twisted humor is my kind of humor. I'm really excited to read this book. That's not something I say very often because I don't really like reading. Hopefully this book gives me things to relate to at the same time although I'm not sure how much the author and I will relate.

In class we also talked about six word memoirs. I didn't know that a memoir could be so short. I learned there are a lot of forms to a memoir. There are six word memoirs, books and even poetry can be memoirs. There are probably more forms of memoirs I don't know about like possibly forms of art. I made my own six word memoir. It is: "Make people laugh, not for popularity". This means a lot to me because I feel like a lot of people just try make people laugh so that people think they're funny. I think people should just try to make people laugh for the joy of making them laugh. I've never been one to enjoy popularity. I like just being myself and enjoy my time with the people that like me for who I am.