Compare And Contrast The Teacher Who Changed My Life By Zinsser

The word “memoir” is a biography written from personal knowledge or special sources, and comes from the Latin word “memory”. The two texts, “The Teacher Who Changed My Life”, and Zinsser’s advice about memoir writing both are alike in many ways. The short memoir, “The Teacher Who Changed My Life” by Nickolas Gage supports Zinsser’s advice to record your family's history when writing a memoir. Zinsser's advice tells the readers to record your family's history, and Nickolas Gage recorded his story in the memoir, “The Teacher Who Changed My Life”. For example, in the source it states “[...] I wouldn’t have become an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent, recording the story of my mother’s life and death in Eleni and now my father’s story in A Place For Us,[...].” This piece of evidence shows that Nickolas Gage followed Zinsser’s advice about memoir writing to record your family's history. Another example of when Nickolas Gage followed Zinsser's advice was when he directed his grief and pain into writing. For instance, in the text it states “But she was the one who

Nickolas wrote about how he had never seen a motorized vehicle or indoor pumping until he was nine. As an example, in the text it states “For a refugee who had never seen a motorized vehicle or indoor plumbing until he was nine.” This piece of evidence shows me that he didn’t leave anything out of his life, as Zinsser's advice tells us to do. Nickolas Gage also isn’t a big baby, he doesn’t just share all the trama in his life. He only shared one thing that was kind of disappointing to him. In particular, in the text it states “She had always dreamed of her children receiving an education. She couldn’t be there when I graduated from Boston University, [...].” This shows that Nickolas Gage didn’t share all of his trauma in his memoir, and mostly shared the happy