A memoir is a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources. They are very deep, emotional and a lot of the time very sad, however like every story, they have there moments that can be positive. For example, Ishmael Beah's "A long way gone" A collection of memories about some things when he was a kid which are extremely sad because of the traumatizing childhood he had being a child soldier. This is the sad part of the book however there is another side to it. Beah was forced into becoming a child soldier when he was  only 9 but before that he was very happy. This statement from the book confirms that. "My imagination at ten years old did not have the capacity to grasp what had taken away the happiness of the refugees."(Beah 6) This is an interesting point not only that he had nothing to do with the war when he was 10 but that he could not even comprehend what it did to others. Obviously Beah had a conflict begin within himself when he got involved in the war. Like several other memoirs like this one, characters have convict with themselves. For instance, in the book "Two kisses for Maddy" by Matt Logelin, one of the main reasons why he wrote the book is because he feels like he will not be a good enough father to take care of his daughter after his wife dies during child birth. That itself is self conflict. However another reason Logelin Wrote this book is to get things in a way off his chest, and so his daughter would understand when she is older. It is a story with underlying conflict, love and hope. These books are great examples of memoir because of there the many similar qualities.

In order to write a memoir you must be a great story teller. It is baffling that people from all over the world write them no matter how intellectually advanced they are. Humans have a nack for reflecting on themselves, and telling others about it. an example of this is the memoir called "A stolen life" by Jaycee dugard, in this memoir Dugard gets abducted from a school bus stop near her house for 18 years. She reflects apon every thing that happened to her, bad and horrible, she still tells a story. It takes courage to tell every thing that happened to her in that situation, but she still talks about it. One of the reasons is to let go of it emotionally. Some evidence from the book is "I had to stay in the same place id just been raped in. I didn't know  at the time that is what it is called. the word 'rape' was not in my vocabulary (Dugard 162) It shows the sheer emotion of this memoir, and a look into the horror that was Dugards life. It gives a peak to what an immence amount of courage it took to write a whole book with countless quotes just like this one. However they were not all sad. For example "I don't feel like rage inside of me thats building… I refuse to let my preditor to have that, he can't have that, he didn't get all of me." (Dugard 44) She takes away that nothing can break her after all that. Most of these people that wrote memoirs have probably come from from this state of mind or took it away after writing one.