The Wide Range of the Memoir 2

Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. This memoir is a mixed and match group of stories from Lawson's life and stories that she much rather just forget ever happened. Lawson sufferers from multiple disorders , severer Anxiety begin one. This mix of of hilarious short, mostly true, stories is really Lawson reflecting her life and using the writing to just accept the life that she has been given and that if you are not laughing you will cry, something I try to carry with me everyday. I hope to read this novel in future for both its obvious humor and life lessons I think it would help to teach.

“I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.” 
― Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (www.goodreads.com)

Wave Sonali Deraniyagala is the heart breaking story of when Deraniyagala was on a vacation whit her mother, father, husband, and two sons in Sri Lanka when a huge tsunami hit the island in 2004 killing them all expect her. The novel is really about Deraniyagala struggle with all the stages of grief that come after such horrible incident. Deraniyagala actually wrote the memoir as part of her therapy after their deaths and never thought it would become a published book. The really big theme throughout the story was that of that love never dies and love will always endure even after death. It was the reality of her love for her family and the memories her family towards her that has kept her going. 

“I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.” 
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave (goodreads.com)

Code Talker by Chester Nez. This memoir is rare one for it is the one and only one about the code talkers of the Navajo Code developed in World War Two as a code for the U.S that the Japanese could not crack. It is to this day still has yet to cracked. Nez grew up on a Indian reservation in New Mexico and lives a

very hard life. When he got to the chance to join the army and fight for his country he lept for the opportunity. He was then stationed in Guadalcanal and became part of the code talkers shortly after that. The major themes of conflict throughout the story was Nez's personal internal conflict about his regional and beliefs. His religion of the Navajo people has something called "The Right Way" and if do things in the world in the right beautiful way you will be awarded. Many parts of war conflicted with this and forced to have to accept his killing and all personal guilt after war.