2 Or 3 Things

I think why authors write their biographies, is that they want to let the readers know about the real world. What they had to go through, how bad the situations were, how they were tortured by their own family, and how they suffered every moment without any food. Some authors write to let the reader know that how they came through the bad situations and made their own identity in the society. Some writes, because they want the world to know that they do exit and are famous people who survived out of the crises. The readers who are far from the reality, biographies give them the sense of understanding the situations of the real world. I would say biographies are awareness.

“Two or Three Things I know for Sure” written by Dorothy Allison is a biography of her life with her real life pictures in it. I think it was a good idea to put the real photos of the family in the novel, because pictures do speak. It’s a known fact that you can read a person face by looking at it that what this persons’ life like. Having the photos in novel, you can tell by looking at them that how the people in the family or relatives changed as they grew older. How their expressions or the way of living changed. I think photos connect you more to the novel. They give you extra interest to read. If you look at the picture, it gives you thinking and makes you read more. You look at it and say who this would be and why this person looking like this, why this person is happy or sad, or why he/she is holding this or that. So, I think it’s definitely a great idea to have the real photos in the novel.

“Two or Three Things I Know For Sure”, I think  is a very detailed biography. I think it’s little confusing if you read it once or not give much attention to it while reading it. To read this book, you really need some alone time to focus. I think it’s a very detailed and unique novel. I think she did good job by putting all the stories together that happened in her life with different people. This novel has some things similar to the other books that we read. In this novel, Allison when she was little girl, she also got sexually and physically abused by her stepfather. It’s just not few women in this world that say that someone raped them, there’s a lot like Dorothy Allison. “The man raped me. It’s the truth. It’s the fact”. It’s a fact of many women’s life. Some don’t tell they just consider suicide the better way to end the matter. Some, I would say are very courageous women who go through it and still comes out crystal clear. They face the world, face the facts and make their own identity. I think all the books/novels that we read, sexual and physical abuse was always there. I think it’s one of the top issues now days that need to be fixed. Men should be ashamed of their selves that whatever they are doing with these women is not right. They are all like their mothers and sisters except the ones who they will marry to or are married to. I think telling the stories through novels/books is the best way to make readers aware of these types of men. By reading it, it can help the girls to stay alert from the men and save their selves.

I think Dorothy Allison is just not a good writer, but there’s also truth in her writing. I think there are a lot of writers, who write just to make you believe on their made up stories and make money out of it. Whatever I read so far in my life, I never read anything like this author wrote when she was ending her story of life. She says, “I can tell you anything. All you have to believe is the truth”. What I got out of it that you only have to believe what you think is right, not what other say. I don’t know if I’m right, but I think it’s true. You should have trust in yourself first, then someone else. Because you know yourself better than the person in front of you who is telling you stories. I think it also applies to the safety of women from getting sexually and physically abused. If you know yourself completely, you know the world. You can protect your own self. Novels and books like “Two or Three Thing I Know For Sure” are also there to make you aware of your own identity and be aware of the world.