Reflections On Writing:

      Writing memoirs must not be easy, since very little people seem to do it these days, personally I see lots of inspiration in an authors personal life story. Perhaps its that most people don't have something  significant enough to write about. When you read through someone else's life, who had issues, and you see and understand their troubles and their ups and downs you feel that your own troubles that you once thought were gigantic are actually quite small and unimportant, you see that their are others who are actually have it worse off than you. In "The Color of Water" I read about James' troubles growing up with twelve siblings and having a beloved father die in his youth, I read about how his white peers thought extremely stereotypical things about him. When comparing these things to what i call my own troubles, mine are nothing, I feel that people who have troubles like James does would laugh at my problems, I feel they would happily trade their own problems with mine. I think if you had something difficult enough to spill out onto paper, you can truly call it a memoir, you can truly call it your own.