memoir presentations

Running with Scissors a memoir written by August en Burroughs. He talks about growing up with his crazy family. At the age of 12, he moved in with Dr.Finch, a unconventional psychiatrist who seems to make his patients worse instead of helping them. He was adapted by Dr.Finch after he claimed Augusten's mom was too unstable. Augusten continuously worries and looks after his mother. Her mental state had a huge impact on Augustens way of life. He biological parents got divorced when he was 12. They had another son together named John Elder Robison, another author. John also wrote a memoir about growing up with his family (Look Me In The Eye). Even though they were together for most of each others childhood, John says they were raised by different families. John wasn't as involved and connected with Dr.Finch. These two books show how two people in the same institutions can have very different points of view of it. John briefly talks about his mos mental state but was not as effected by it as his brother was. The two boys were both involved in her situation but look two very different experiences and lesions away from it.

Memoirs are usually written to shine light on traumatic situations that need to be stopped or changed by society. For this reason, there are many memoirs about child soldiers. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, talks bout the inner conflict most kids go though during war. He says "even though I'm alive, i feel like each time ii accept a life, a part of me dies."
Kids are put in situations where they have no other choice them to kill or be killed, but no matter what happens that kids soul is being damaged In War Child by Emmanuel Jal, he describes how children carried riffles taller then they were kids are to young and innocent to be put in such horrible situations. Emmanuel also talks about how guns don't know old from young. Its not the weapons that are the problem, its the society that doesn't care who or what is being hurt by the guns. Both men now advocate for peace. Their memoirs were wrote to gain awareness to the child soldiers so change and peace can someday be obtained.