Life Stories

A memoir differs from an autobiography because it

• Focuses on specific themes/experience

• Covers the author's entire life

• Is written by someone else

Which book is a famous memoir about surviving genocide?

• The dairy of Anne Frank

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Night by Elie Wiesel

Mala Yousafzai's life story is best associated with advocating for ?

• Climate Change

• Gender equality In Education

• Racial Justice

• Education

What is the key difference between an autobiography and a biography?

• An autobiography is fictional, Biography is factual.

• An autobiographyis written by the subject, Biography is written by someone else.

• Biography is shoter than an autobiography

Nelson Mandela's life story teaches the power of?

• Vengeance

• Forgiveness and reconciliation

• Isolation

• kindness

A memoir is a type of autobiography that focuseson the author's entire life.

• True
• False

Answer explanation

Memoirs focus on the specific themes, events, or periods

Which of these is an autobiography?

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• Becoming by MIchelle Obama

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Why might an author choose to write a memoir instead of an autobiography?

• To include fictionalized

• To provide an objective account of their life

• To focus on emotional truths and specific experiences.

Biographies always require the subject's permission to be written

• True
• False

Answer explanation

They can be written with or without the subject's involvement.

Between biographies, autobiographies and memoris which do you think is most diffcult to write? why?