Memoir is a kind of genre where writer writes about a short piece of memory that is meaningful. Often, the memoir reflects what the writer thinks is important in the past and the writer has new thoughts on that piece of the experience.
In this class, memoir is a very helpful genre to write about past experience of space and place. Specifically, when a person moves from one place to another, he or she lost physical contact with the old place and so memoir is a very good way to think about the past experience of the place. And throughout the process of doing so, it allows the writer to reflect on the change of experience of one place/space over time. It is meaningful because place/space is what shapes us and its change can often reflect the changes of ourselves.
In this class, memoir is a very helpful genre to write about past experience of space and place. Specifically, when a person moves from one place to another, he or she lost physical contact with the old place and so memoir is a very good way to think about the past experience of the place. And throughout the process of doing so, it allows the writer to reflect on the change of experience of one place/space over time. It is meaningful because place/space is what shapes us and its change can often reflect the changes of ourselves.