Essential Questions
Question 1: How do memoir authors hook and hold readers?

Question 2: How do memoir writers persuade their readers?

Question 3: What is the relationship between memoirs and truth?

Question 4: What truths are best communicated through the memoir genre?

Question 5: What makes a memoir a memoir?

Question 6: How have the lives of the authors changed since writing their stories?

Question 7: Has writing their story helped them psychologically?

Question 8: What makes memoir novels about child abuse and neglect so popular?

Question 9: What persuaded each author to write about their own life?

Question 10: What other benefits have come from writing a memoir?

Question 11: Is it imporant for the writer to stick to only true facts?


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