Summary
Chapter 14 (Writing About Yourself—The Memoir):?We need to narrow our focus and write something true but unique to show our personalities in memoir.
Words and Expressions
Now he can hardly believe what a liberating journey he is embarked on how much he is discovering about his father that he never understood,...
1 embarke on 從事啦扬，著手
I embarked on reading On Writing Well two weeks ago.
,and this chapter is not intended as a license to prattle just for therapy.
2 prattle v. 東拉西扯
The teacher likes prattling in the class.
Nobody but a Chinese-American woman could have made me feel what it's like to be a Chinese girl plunked down in an American kindergarten...
3 plunk down 砰地一聲掉下來 （這里形容中國女孩突然移民到美國，念美國的幼兒園黎棠，給人一種因為太突然所以一下子懵掉的感覺泛啸。）
The accident plunked down in his life and he lost everything.
What Virginia Woolf intimately wrote during her lifetime has been immensely helpful to other women wrestling with similar angels and demons.
4 wrestle with 與...搏斗
He keeps wrestling with the lung cancer.
Thoughts
The best gift you have to offer when you write personal history is the gift of yourself. Give yourself permission to write about yourself, and have a good time doing it.
看到這段話师溅，我想起學生剛剛結束的期中考試酥夭。語文的作文題目是“快樂的童年”暂幼。令人沒想到的事藐窄，要求600個字贮泞，有些同學40分鐘內都憋不出400個字楞慈。他們竟然在十二年的人生中找不出一個快樂的點。因為他們認為作文是為老師而寫啃擦，寫作要考慮老師的要求囊蓝。他們從沒有想過為自己寫點什么。他們也許所有經歷過的寫作都是作業(yè)和考試中出現(xiàn)的议惰。哪怕是日記也是家長要求并檢查的慎颗。這些學生似乎從來沒有想過寫一些自己想寫的，屬于自己的言询，有關自己的俯萎。而這個寫作過程中是一件愉悅的事。他們不能說运杭，不敢說的是可以在文字中為自己發(fā)聲的夫啊。也許學生們還太小，希望不久的將來辆憔，他們會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己是personal history中最好撇眯，最豐富的禮物。
