7/2 Overview

Overview:
Thin coe memoirs of all the stories one thing in common to preserve there memories of that certain moment for anybody to relive. From the story of the girl sister who is pregnant to a war veteran writing about his time in combat they are written to enlighten readers into there thought and there feelings at that moment in time. The veteran talks about how memoirs of other veterans are becoming sparse as he pointed out in the comic strip from the newspaper he read publishers are saying that memoirs of wars already been written by somebody else of that war.The veteran talks about all the different things he did in the war to give the reader a view of something they wouldn't have lived in there life through the veterans memories of the moments in which he shares with the reader.The memoirs about the girl who sister got pregnant focuses the sister who being ignored anger because you feel it in her words. That also she is getting alot off her chest that she can't say aloud to her family who is enthralled in there sister pregnancy. So she getting the feeling out that she couldn't get out in any other way that us as readers can sympathize with.

Reaction:
I like the memoirs that i have read in this week reading exercises.The one about the veteran was very entertaining from how he talk about how he was a musician in the band to how he was a part of a heavy infantry that played a part in many major battles. He also talks about memoirs and how you have to fuse together history and novelist to have a good memoir that is interesting. The memoir about the two sisters was also interesting from the colorful dialogue to the inside of what she was saying compared to what she actually said. I felt for the sister who was getting ignored but also thought the brother was a geniuse how he use there parents infactuation with the pregnant sister to slip undected.

Questions:
What happen at the end of the story when the girl goes back to louisianna to talk to the kids?
How good was the veteran at playing his instrument and what was the instrument?
Why did the baby at the end of the story about the pregnancy brighten the girl life so much?