Cover letter for text-based memoir
Since it was my first time to write a memoir, I had a hard time to figure out how I should organize my memoir in order to evoke feelings of my readers. The genre of my memoir is an anecdote. I wrote about my experience in the way of telling a story. Without additional explanation, the biggest concern for me is to transfer indirect meaning behind the story to my audience.
The purpose of this text-based memoir is to discover a relationship between a place and the self. I first set up the background to be my city, Shenzhen. Then I displayed a short story of a girl sharing an umbrella with me. I used a series of verbs to describe my change of attitudes from initially rejecting her “suspicious” help to finally trusting her. For example, I expressed my suspicion of the girl and refused her help by saying “I grimaced and shuffled my feet” instead of directly writing rejection in my memoir. The most successful feature of my memoir is the use of dialogue. Dialogue breaks up blocks of exposition, which makes reading much easier. Thus, it is a great way to capture the audience’s interest. I use dialogue to display conversations between the girl and I, because dialogue helps me better expose information about characters, thoughts and relationships.
Through the use of dialogue and verbs, I feel that an impression of reality is given to the audience. Also instead of telling my deeper idea behind the small incident, these rhetorical methods I used in my memoir inexplicitly help me expose critical connotations.
The purpose of this text-based memoir is to discover a relationship between a place and the self. I first set up the background to be my city, Shenzhen. Then I displayed a short story of a girl sharing an umbrella with me. I used a series of verbs to describe my change of attitudes from initially rejecting her “suspicious” help to finally trusting her. For example, I expressed my suspicion of the girl and refused her help by saying “I grimaced and shuffled my feet” instead of directly writing rejection in my memoir. The most successful feature of my memoir is the use of dialogue. Dialogue breaks up blocks of exposition, which makes reading much easier. Thus, it is a great way to capture the audience’s interest. I use dialogue to display conversations between the girl and I, because dialogue helps me better expose information about characters, thoughts and relationships.
Through the use of dialogue and verbs, I feel that an impression of reality is given to the audience. Also instead of telling my deeper idea behind the small incident, these rhetorical methods I used in my memoir inexplicitly help me expose critical connotations.