Prose Responsev- 1990 Joan Didion

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Christopher Ray Robinson Mrs. Ballard Prose Response #3/ Term 2 1990 Prompt by Joan Didion The main issue provided in the prompt, 1990 authored by Joan Didion address that one’s incorruptible mind-frame of themselves can only be tainted when they – for themselves – decide and conclude that they no longer view themselves as highly as they once did. To help offer her point of view on the subject of this topic, she offers an example and uses many commendable techniques. Didion herself suffered from turning a blind eye from the fact that she was not as much as she thought of herself as. She proposes her own incident consisting of her being declined accepted to the academic honor society fraternity by the name of Phi Beta Kappa. She felt as if her past attributes and personal accolades would be an opening gateway and assured acceptance ticket to virtually almost anything that she felt she wanted to go after. She craftfully uses the technique of reflecting back on her own self to attempt to have the reader undergo or at least be cognizant of a self-evaluation of themselves. By portraying and emitting her personal denial, she is able to help put others on notice before they actually fall victim to this dead end mindset. The miserable and bleak fact of this is that one’s personal assessment may and are likely to not amount up to those of the generally putative ways of others. Joan seems to be using the writing style of that of a memoir and by delving the reader in her personal life, the reader is able to also question and look over themselves in the same manner that the author has done which would –in turn –help to substantiate the theme of this work. By becoming Joan Didion which she has clearly done, the one reading her opinion is able to perceive it from her point of

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