Bell Hooks

QDJ
1. Hooks means that she wanted to create a different story for herself.  She wanted to live and remember differently through her writing, birthing a new identity.

2. Act of remembering is not always a representation of the truth. With this definition, I realize that writing has no limits, and can create a false sense of understanding or information to the reader. This does not have to be a bad thing, in Hook's writing, she is attempting to leave behind her stuggle of a childhood in order to create a new identity.

3. Hooks uses an image of pain and dispair to frame her writing.  I feel she did this in order to explain her reasoning of creating a bio-mythology.  Not to make the reader feel bad, but to understand her reason for the text.

AEI
1. I do not think her using the phrase "kill her former self" does not at all effect the reliability of her article.  If anything, it is her life, and we as readers are lucky enough to be able to put ourselves into the pain she had, and the obsticles she overcame with her writing.  My view is not complicated. Instead, I clearly understand and can see where she is coming from while she wrote her autobiography. It makes the mood and voice of the article that much more detailed.