What Is The Theme Of My Story By Reba Mcentire

Reba: My Story, by Reba McEntire is a personal memoir about the climactic, fluctuating life of developing country music star and her road from the life of a simple ranch girl to singing at the Grand Ol Opry. While her targeted audience was her fans, Reba also wrote about her life in order to encourage other people struggling in their careers, specifically those wanting to become a part of the music industry, to persevere through their difficulties and continue on trekking toward success just as she herself did. It was a few years after Reba’s son, Shelby, was born that Reba decided to write this book to pass on her stories to him so that he could know about her previous experiences when he grew older. Later, as she continued writing about her

McEntire’s purpose in including this passage in her memoir was to convey the full impact of her son’s birth down to the last detail, and therefore help the reader understand why Shelby is so important to Reba. The author employs alliteration and simile when discussing her feelings about her newborn son in order to concentrate her emotions into a fixed ray of pride in her son, whom she feels is her biggest, best accomplishment in life. The phrase “beautiful, baby boy” used by McEntire in describing her son at the first moment of having seen him after he entered the world, is an example of an alliteration that draws attention to the fact that Reba has already began to prize her son like an expensive object, even though she has only seen him once. This is significant because it demonstrates the responsible character of Reba as she takes up the role of ‘mother’ instantly, even though she had never really been one before. Reba later goes on to compare her pride in her son to all the accomplishments in her life so far, (which were quite numorous at the time), including the phrase “I’ve seen my name in letters as tall as a house”, and how, despite all the honors she had received, she couldn’t have felt more proud than when she saw her son for the first time. When she compares her name in neon to the