When The Walls Came Tumbling Down Analysis

While writing a memoir, the author does not always have to be truthful. As long as the author gets their point across, then that’s fine. Most authors, in every genre, have either some kind of information that they add in to try and make the book more appealing, or have information that they take out because it's either not worth telling, or it doesn’t add to the point of the story.

In the article titled “The Problem with Memoirs” by Neil Genzlinger, the author begins with a clear and brief introduction about his view and definition of personal memoirs and why today this specific set of writing is problematic for the audience reading this style of writing. Some key points that he addresses in the article are the idea that not every personal should be written and publish a memoir. Many personal memoirs contain a variety of stories in which authors explain and emphasize their life experiences. Often times many write about a favorite childhood memory, surviving cancer or other personal situations. For the author of the article, these types of personal memoirs should not be published in writing because it does not attract

I maintain, however, that in some way or another the audience is bound to be exposed to the harsh reality of the outside world. Even just going to school, they would be exposed to equally, if not, more devastating topics, like sexual harassment and school shootings. The memoir, rather than glorifying these topics like they do in movies and television shows, they are portrayed straightforwardly. For example, on page 146, Walls describes the situation: “Erma kneeling on the floor in front of Brian, grabbing at the crotch of his pants… and telling Brian to hold still,” while “his cheeks wet with tears, was holding his hands protectively between his legs.” Excessive and biased words were not used to portray walls’ loathing towards her grandma, which offers the audience to conclude their own opinions on the situation. Being straightforward with what happened opens the audience to sensitive topics and informs them of what to do, which helps them even more than if the topic was talked about lightly and cast

This is one story I've never told before. Not to anyone. . .To go into it, I've always thought, would only cause embarrassment for all of us, a sudden need to be elsewhere, which is the natural response to a confession. Even now I'll admit, the story makes me squirm. (O’Brien)

There are various components of Walls’ traumatic autobiography that are significant. To begin with, throughout her narrative Walls uses the trauma she has gone through to show that she has learned to take nothing for granted and is appreciative of what she does have. This is a significant portion of Walls’ autobiography because it shows that a traumatic upbringing can either cause a person to fall into the same patterns that brought on the trauma, such as falling back into poverty, or the person can rise above the challenges in their lives and become determined to change their future. Another significant portion of her narrative includes different incidents when Walls and her siblings go to extreme measures to simply survive. A specific incident of this occurs when Walls describes how at lunch, she would hide in the bathroom stall with her feet up and girls

While writing a memoir, the author does not always have to be truthful. As long as the author gets their point across, then that’s fine. Most authors, in every genre, have some kind of false information they put in to try and make their book appeal to their targeted audience. Sometimes it’s the opposite. Sometimes they might have a small detail that's true, but it's either not worth telling, or it doesn’t add to the point of the story.

Ralph David Abernathy, author of And The Walls Came Tumbling Down, writes of his personal experiences in the South through the 1930’s and 40’s. Abernathy talks of being a part of a great movement that changed the face of American society and made that old way of life obsolete.

The genre of memoir has many literary qualities those are unique only to memoir that appeals to many readers. Compared to other genres, memoirs are author’s real memories and include stories involving the problem of the author and other characters’ relationship. Memoirs include many authors’ extraordinary memories and events that may look surprising to the readers. In the book A List of Things That Didn’t Kill Me by Jason Schmidt, the author recalls a horrifying memory of his father. It said,”... I came home from school one day and found my dad crawling around on a kitchen floor in a big pool of blood. (3)” For Jason, who was surprisingly calm, some happenings that may be seen horrifying for the readers weren’t casual for him. Events like this

The Berlin Wall is a historical symbol of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is a symbol of the end of the Cold War. And also, the Berlin Wall played a great role in the life of millions of people and defined the fate of German people, which put them apart by the Wall for a long period of time. Sixteen years after the end of World War II, the communist government of East Germany began building a wall on (August 13, 1961), that would divide the city of Berlin into East Berlin and West Berlin. The purpose was to keep fascists from entering East Germany, but mostly to keep West German citizens, primarily people of valuable professions such as doctors, teachers and engineers, from Changing side to the West. People of Berlin Called the wall Schandmaur, which actually means " The wall of shame". Over the years of the wall being constructed it took at least 3x times to rebuild it, but each time bigger than the last one.

Ralph David Abernathy who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s close colleagues and an influential member in the Civil Rights Movement. Not only does the book describe the story of Abernathy but it also conveys a sense of how the Civil Rights Movement devised its strategy and direction. The book gives a personal account of Abernathy’s rural farming background in Alabama and his service in World War II. Abernathy also covers topics ranging from the montgomery bus boycott to King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the tireless effort of King and the SCLC to try and get Carl Stokes elected as the first African American mayor of a major city.

Emma Young is a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and on the 10th of June she wrote an article addressing the issue of homes being in risk of collapsing due to coastal erosion.

The wall tore families apart for decades. After it was torn down, families found each other after years apart. Mostly everyone was happy at the walls destruction. People missing family members or friends felt it more personally than others. But even if their family was together most Germans loved the new peace and freedom.

As the book states, “…these disclosures only intensify the children’s mental and physical distress and make them feel caught between the two parents.” (P. 61) Hindsight allows me to see that it didn’t matter that I felt ganged up on, nor did it matter that I egregiously believed my children were mature enough to handle the scope of information I provided them. While I justified it by telling myself I was providing context or details as to why we were getting a divorce, sharing information that would help them understand why I made the decisions I made, the bottom line is that it was selfish. I was a poor example of how to successfully parent, communicate competently and I don’t know if I can repair the damage I have done. My children might be as tall and eat more than adults, but they are minor children. I was the only adult in the room and I should have kept my mouth

Our narrator and his acquaintance do not apperceive what causes the wall’s destruction. So neither party has a working understand of what is destroying the wall, but to us, line 10 facilities speculation of fowl play at hand. Razing the the wall is not an analytic or methodical task, but it is the aftereffect of a caustic altercation. . This causes the reader to speculate that something is wrong with the approach of both characters, as men of logic would have investigated the cause of damage rather than simply repairing the wall. Thus causing distrust of both the narrator and his

In the novel, The Yellow Wall-Paper, the narrator is introduced to the audience as someone who seems normal. She has a husband and a child as well. The narrator begins writing her journal and explaining to us that she has been taken into a summer vacation home wit her husband. She at first describes the house to be an more expensive place and questions their ability to purchase the house. However, she soon begins to explain to us her disorder and how her husband John and her brother as well, doesn't believe in her disorder. John gives her a simple treatment and solution to her issues, he explains to his wife that the treatment she will receive is to do nothing active and that she will get better if she stays in her room in the attic. This room is described as “It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge;