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Memoir of Love's Enduring Cords: Genre Shifting and Understanding Multi-Modal Texts

Dive into a nuanced narrative exploring family, loss, and growth, blending genres in a thought-provoking memoir. Unravel the shifting perspectives and compelling storytelling techniques to uncover a deeper understanding of life's complexities.

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Memoir of Love's Enduring Cords: Genre Shifting and Understanding Multi-Modal Texts

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  1. Genre Shifting Understanding Multi-Modal Texts

  2. Memoir? Or is it? • Ed Leap: “Cords of love will hold” • Greenville News Column, May 26th • Anna Quindlin: “Oh Godot” • Loud and Clear • Nancy Gibbs: “Go Forth and Multiply!” • TIME June 16, 2008

  3. Characteristics Chart • Ed Leap piece • Narrative: • Opening paragraph “I am writing this from the beach…” • First four paragraphs • 1st person perspective • Story structure surrounding the beach • Description of family • Persuasive: • Paragraph 4 “We must learn to view it from a new perspective.” • Paragraph 6“In essence this pining..” • Paragraph 7 “The thing is, they aren’t going away…” • Paragraph 10 “So parents, cry and smile…” • Informational: • Paragraph 5 “Long history of parenthood…”

  4. On Your Own • Quindlin • Narrative: 1st paragraph, 15th paragraph • *supplements with personal examples • Persuasive: • “You better have you. The real you…” Two paragraphs at the bottom of 223. • She’s shifting to “you” to second person. • Informational: “Oh Godot” allusions / references • James Joyce / references to famous artist post-mortum

  5. Possibilities for Your Pieces • Ideas: • Parallelism – sentence structure/ using short simple sentences “It’s all as certain as the sea.” “Godot has arrived.” • Repetition – going back to the Godot - or the sea – or the kindergarten comparisons • Informational – adding depth / comparisons/research

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