Moaaz Alsalmi

Prof. Aimee Jones

ENG_111

November 18, 2019

Reading Notes: Allyn and Bacon Concept 7.1 and 7.2

Writing autobiography uses closed-form prose without stating any thesis and it forms contraries

by telling the stories of narrator and is competition do the external forces such as culture. The

autobiography uses contraries by explaining the real self and the perception of other about him

for example my teachers have been thinking that I am defiant but they didn't know I was afraid to

read. In autobiographies narrator educate its audience about unexplored world stating his

experience. Opposition of contraries plays a role of organizing principal and helps narrator to

include and exclude any scene. Plot is very important in storytelling, it includes selection and

sequencing of scenes and events in the story. In plots narrator explorers opening scene, introduce

characters with backgrounds, builds tension opposition embedded scenes, and the climax comes

to the head and then provides reflection on events and their meanings in the plot. Themes and

settings are equally very important in autobiography.

Furthermore this section includes literacy narrative and its special features. It is considered as a

subset of autobiographical narrative. With the introduction of literacy narratives contemporary

discussions about cultural diversity and connection between literacy and cultural powers in the

United States have risen. Frederick Douglass is considered the most famous literacy in narrator

whose work play a key role in liberation from slavery. There are some distinctive features of

literacy narratives: it focuses on the writers experience with writing, reading, language, and other
factors of education. Most important later focuses on the readers and connection of them to the

understanding and their writer’s experience.