• Does the writer provide an introduction that grabs the reader’s attention? I enjoyed the introduction, the writer makes you wonder what basket has been passed and why.

• Does the writer focus on significant events in his or her life rather than trying to narrate his or her entire life’s story? Yes, the writer is specific in telling of her grandfathers illness and the events that follow.
• Do the descriptions of the characters or important objects in the memoirs include sensory details that help readers to visualize, hear, smell or feel them? Yes, the writer describes the use of her grandfathers medication as making him dizzy and forgetful. She explains the carport being out of wack and mentioned the color was green. She doesn't really describe her Nana but you kind of get the idea that she doesn't really put up with alot of nonsense.
• Has the writer quoted speech or dialogue so as to reveal some important aspect of a character’s personality? Yes Pop Pop (her grandfather) speaks quite frequently in this essay. Ranting about being "a caged animal in his own home."
• Does the writer narrate or describe events in a way that allows readers to connect them to experiences or relationships in their own lives? Yes when haven't you gotten upset about anything at the grocery store at least once.
• Has the writer explained the significance of the people, events, places, or objects in shaping who he or she has become?The last bit of dialogue when she accidentally runs her grandfather down. They exchange some conversation and you can visualize that she understands her grandfather very well ill or not. Does this explanation make sense in relation to the events, people, places, and things described throughout the memoir? Yes.
• Does the writer provide a conclusion that reinforces the point of the story? Yes. Her grandfather has been somewhat impossible to get along with and she reinforces the ending by letting her readers know it's okay for the elderly to get grouchy and still be loved. 

 

 

Bobbi Irwin