Dreams From My Father Analysis

Both Barack Obama and Derek Jeter have written stories about their life. Jeter wrote a motivational autobiography about reaching his dreams and goals in, “Life You Imagine”. Obama wrote a memoir about a certain time in his life in, “Dreams From My Father”. In both “Life You Imagine” and “Dreams From My Father”, the authors use specific strategies to help convey their themes of dreams and challenges one faces to reach their goals. The author of “Life You Imagine” uses colloquial language to relate to the readers. In the text it stated, “We’re not just talking about baseball here- We’re talking about dreams, no matter what they are.” This shows that Jeter’s use of colloquial language helped to convey the theme by having Jeter relate to the reader using informal language. The text also states, “Because when you find that goal that excites you like nothing else, you’ll want to open your bedroom window and yell it to anybody with ears!” This shows that Jeter’s use of colloquial language

In the text it states, “At some point, then in spite of a stubborn desire to protect myself from scrutiny, in spite of the periodic impulse to abandon the entire project, what has found it’s way onto these pages is a record of a personal, interior journey- a boy’s search for his father, and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American.” This shows that Obama used formal academic language to describe the stress and struggle of writing this book. In the text it also stated, “Although much of this book is based on contemporaneous journals or the oral histories of my family, the dialogue is necessarily an approximation of what was actually said or relayed to me.” This shows how Obama used formal academic language to explain how, the dialogue was just an approximation of what was really said in order to keep the story short. The author of “Dreams From My Father” uses formal/academic