Memoir Reflections

   I have just read the memoir "Click.Hello?" by Rikki Wilchins. Even though this is a short memoir; Rikki makes his point very clear. Even though this memoir just shows us Rikki having trouble getting his license changed to say his sex is female, but it encompasses how life will be for Rikki  now that he has had this sex changed. The memoir even showed me just how arrogant people can be when they first hear someone is a transsexual.

   I also read  "My Mother Never Worked." by Smith-Yackel. This memoir is about Smith-Yackel on the phone with the social security office trying to claim a death benefit that should have been left by her mother Marhta Ruth Smith, as the social security office looks up her information. Smith recalls all the things her mother went through, Martha Ruth Smith raised almost a dozen children, worked on farms day in and day out, even in her retirement years life was not easy for her, as she became crippled from the waist down. Smith-Yackel is told by the government her mother is not entitled to any benefits due to the fact she never worked.

   I do have a better understanding of how memoirs works and how you can make a point without having to state it. For instance no where in "My Mother Never Worked." does Smith-Yackel state my mother was a hard worker but the government disagrees. She gives us in vivid detail of all the things her mother did in life, for we can have that thought by the end of it. I will definitely be using these memoirs as a reference when writing my paper.