Hooks

Hooks talks about how difficult it was for her to write her autobiography the way she originally wanted because she could never get into the creative mindset necessary to do so. For a while she talked about  how she tried to subdue a part of herself because she thought that that part of her was holding her back. She realized though, that the only thing holding her back was herself. After she let that part of her through, she found that writing was much easier in the mindset that she had as a child.

1.      She meant that she wanted to keep the uneducated/too young version of herself out of the story as she felt that she didn’t want the memories so much as she wanted the feeling evoked be each memory and she felt that the part of her was holding her back and she wanted to rid herself of it. However, she wasn’t able to write well until she let that side out.

2.      Bio-mythography is the invention of memories to make up for lost details in your past. She says herself that there is a particular memory that she isn’t even sure actually happened, so yes. She does have this in her story.

3.      Hooks uses the image of a memory to frame her writing. She goes through each memory and gets as many details down as possible. I go through others’ writings, find quotes, and expand on those quotes. It’s worked pretty well so far.

AEI1:

            It shows that she is partially afraid of showing a certain part of her in her writings, which makes me view her as kind of afraid. You should embrace every part of yourself as an enhancement. Only then will it work as one. You can’t expect to write great unless you put all of yourself into your writing.