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How is a reader's interpretation affected by knowing the passage is from a memoir?
The reader gets a clear picture because the author actually experienced the event.
The reader gets a sense of the author’s character in describing a historical event.
The reader can distance the author from the subject matter to understand the event.
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Responses 1 and 2 are correct; 3 is not.
- Knowing it’s a memoir tells the reader the narrator actually lived the events (so it’s a firsthand account) and therefore gives insight into the author’s character, perspective, and feelings about those events.
- It does not allow the reader to distance the author from the subject; memoirs are inherently subjective and intimate, not detached, so you read them as a personal, not an objective, treatment of the event.
- Knowing it’s a memoir tells the reader the narrator actually lived the events (so it’s a firsthand account) and therefore gives insight into the author’s character, perspective, and feelings about those events.
- It does not allow the reader to distance the author from the subject; memoirs are inherently subjective and intimate, not detached, so you read them as a personal, not an objective, treatment of the event.
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