In William Zinsser’s “How To Write A Memoir”, William gives advice on how to write a memoir. The suggestions the author (Zinsser) gives are as follows: Be yourself, speak freely, and tell your own story. My author, Bethany Hamilton, used the advice that Zinsser suggested in her book entitled “Soul Surfer”. Her life is mostly about surfing, Bethany said that she started surfing at the age of 3 or 4. In “Soul Surfer, Hamilton mainly discusses her love for surfing. She also talks about her mom and dad being surfers as well and how she didn’t care about other people’s opinion of her being a surfer. Zinsser says that if your sister doesn’t like your story, she can write her own story (paragraph 17). At the end of the chapter “ Serious competitor “ , it shows pictures of Bethany growing up as a surfer and near the end of the pictures it shows the picture of the shark that bit her arm , I knew that because at the bottom she said that the jaws were a perfect match, On each of the pictures it shows the details of each picture.
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All of these places are her favorites and she is telling us so we know how she learned and how she became a surfer and now that she’s growing she is getting better. Zinsser says” be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere” paragraph 8. On page 47 where she talks about her favorite places on the bottom it says” that other girls were inspired and started surfing
All of these places are her favorites and she is telling us so we know how she learned and how she became a surfer and now that she’s growing she is getting better. Zinsser says” be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere” paragraph 8. On page 47 where she talks about her favorite places on the bottom it says” that other girls were inspired and started surfing