Compare and Contrast:
Memoir and Biography
When you compare and contrast a memoir and a biography, you analyze the
way each writer presents the subject and the events and influences in the
subject's life.
Here are some questions you can ask to compare and contrast a memoir
and a biography:
• What is each author's purpose for writing? Do the authors share the
same purpose, or are their purposes different?
• How are the authors' presentations of events alike and different?
How is the impression you get of the person alike and different in
each text? Does the author of the memoir sound very different from
the person written about in the biography? Does one text seem more
accurate or reliable?
Use these questions to help you analyze It Worked for Me and Colin Powell
Military Leader and to understand a more complete picture of the subject