Garden of Eden

• Does the writer provide an introduction that grabs the reader’s attention?
• Yes, it talks about how the different family members take turns taking care of the writer's grandpa.
• Does the writer focus on significant events in his or her life rather than trying to narrate his or her entire life’s story?
• Yes, the story is about how she has to take her grandfather to the grocery store.
• Do the descriptions of the characters or important objects in the memoirs include sensory details that help readers to visualize, hear, smell or feel them?
• Yes, the food that is describe in the story is all stuff that everyone has heard of, or at least some part of it.
• Has the writer quoted speech or dialogue so as to reveal some important aspect of a character’s personality?
• Yes, the dialogue between the writer and her grandfather reveals the kind of relationship they have.
• Does the writer narrate or describe events in a way that allows readers to connect them to experiences or relationships in their own lives?
• Yes, the dialogue at the end sounds like a conversation you would hear at my house. I was reading it picturing my grandparents the whole time.
• Has the writer explained the significance of the people, events, places, or objects in shaping who he or she has become? Does this explanation make sense in relation to the events, people, places, and things described throughout the memoir?
• Yes.
• Does the writer provide a conclusion that reinforces the point of the story?
• Yes.