![]() ![]() It was the first level without parent participation. The waitlist for swimming classes gave childcare a run for its money and we were lucky to score the holy grail of classes: 9.30am on a Saturday. We continued ballet until the end of the year and I experienced firsthand the complex rehearsal schedule for dance families and the chaos of being backstage with 100 excited girls and boys.Īlongside ballet, we enrolled her into swimming, a necessary life skill when our home is girt by sea. Then came the pirouettes, arabesques and attitudes (she corrected my pronunciation and I had to google these terms to understand what she was talking about). They hopped like a bunny, walked tall like a giraffe, waddled like a penguin … all to beautiful music. Then followed a warm-up strangely similar to soccer. The class started with the children asked to tell a story (what they did today, what they ate for breakfast, their favourite colour). Unlike soccer, she seemed to know exactly what ballet was about, possibly from hours of watching Emma Wiggle. The dance studio was conveniently 100 metres from our house. While she got into the drills and games eventually, she didn’t love it overall, so we decided to try something else. I spent the entire week after that talking about her goal and the sticker she got at the end of the class. I felt both were equally as moving, letting me experience the different emotions portrayed.When she figured out that we wanted her to kick a ball, into the net, and then did it (slight toe contact to the ball, ball rolling into net in slow motion), I carried on like she had scored the goal that got Australia into the World Cup. I don’t think one is better than the other. I personally enjoyed both memoirs equally the same. Despite their many differences, these memoirs have a lot in common when considering the life of a high school teenager. Two of these memoirs succeeded in getting the reader to feel the emotions and live through the experiences. It’s important when reading a memoir, to not only read it, but to also relive it. Finally, I believe both memoirs can make any average high school teenager relate to it. In “Morning Dawns”, the message that I got was about the emptiness of Mondays and how humans are like controlled robots living in this world. In ‘A Moment of Clarity”, the message that I got was that something as simple as reading our favorite novel can make us feel a sense of clarity and belonging when getting into the story. Not only do they express their personal emotions and share it with the world to read, but they also send a little message. Both memoirs focus on the emotions that they feel during these little moments that they experience. The beginning of both memoirs start from the writer’s perspective, lying in a bed, both having just woken up from a sleep. Obviously, they are both told from a teenager’s personal experience. In similarities, both memoirs have many in common. “Morning Dawns” expresses the author’s emotions at home and in school, whereas “A Moment of Clarity” actually illustrates the emotions of a boy being read a story, along with the author herself, in a bedroom. Other than emotions, each memoir has different settings and characters. In “A Moment of Clarity”, the writer interprets emotions of peace, happiness and satisfaction that one gets from reading. Unlike “A Moment of Clarity”, “Morning Dawns” leans towards the emotion of apathy and laziness. She expresses the emotions of heaviness and laziness that comes with Monday mornings, after a weekend empty of routines. In “Morning Dawns”, a high school student describes the moment of waking up on a Monday morning and getting back into life’s boring routines like rats in a race to the finish line. The little things in life that we take for granted are beautifully detailed in both memoirs, focusing on the simplicity of each moment, yet also complimenting each other with their unique individual emotions portrayed within the memoirs.Įach memoir holds different emotions within their story. Another memoir entitled “A Moment of Clarity”, by another young American teenager, is about the simplicity of reading a favorite novel and engaging into the story. One memoir entitled “Morning Dawns”, written by a young American teenager is about her personal experience of the simple task of waking up and going to school on a Monday morning. They are the personal diaries for remembering the small things in life. ![]() Memoirs relive the precious moments and emotions that we, as human beings sadly forget, in retrospect. A Compare and Contrast Essay of Two Memoirs ![]()
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