blog # 4 Schwartz

Schwartz is telling us of her family history from mainly her account but also from the words of her father. The sections in this CNF writing go from her as a child listening to her father rant and rave about how things used to be, to her trip with him to Rindeim, gaining more of an understanding, to her atleast being a woman who now had full knowledge of what was going on, and what her father meant.

The focus I believe of this piece was to show her readers that WWII had an impact on individuals differently. What we read in books or online is not the only way it can be told. She takes it to the next level, and tells it through the eyes of two people three different ways. We see how her father was changed and felt about it, and how it effect her as a child and as a grown woman.

I personally liked how she broke up the story and went back and forth between her younger and older self. Don't all of us do the same thing when we are looking back at something that had molded us into who we are today. First we think about it when it happened to us, take your oldest memory for instance. I would be looking at it from a 3 year old perspective, but as I write about it, I would also be looking at it as a 22 year old woman.

Schwartz's gaps add to her writing, she goes one step further than Kincaid. Where Kincaid just adds her two cents in with apprentices, Schwartz's really explains the changes that she endures.