Question

PLEASE HELPPP Choose any one of the memoirs from Unit 1. Summarize the event or experience detailed by the author in the memoir. Explain why the memoir was written; what life lesson was learned by the author? Include text evidence (actual quotes from the memoir) to support your answer.

Answer 1

Sample Response: Both texts present facts about Trujillo, his dictatorship, and the 1937 massacre. Memmott primarily presents facts about the dictator and his crimes. Alvarez, on the other hand, describes in great detail how the dictatorship affected the people of the Dominican Republic. She connects the events to the personal experiences of her parents.

Answer 2

in the story “A Cub Pilot” by Mark Twain, Mr. Bixby, the narrator’s chief, plays a key part in his life by teaching him a life lesson.

That life lessons that Mr. Bixby teaches the narrator is not second guess himself.

As a cub pilot, the narrator is training to become a steamboat pilot and must exercise “good and quick judgment” and “calm courage” (28).

Mr. Bixby challenges the narrator’s judgment by making him second guess himself. This is significant because......