LITT 14310G: Memoir Assignment - Life Story with Personal Reflection

This assignment consists of a reflective memoir and its analysis, focusing on the student's experience with migration from Algeria to British Columbia in 2016 and its impact on their adolescence. The memoir details the feelings of alienation, difficulties in communication, and academic challenges faced due to cultural shifts and unfamiliar environments. The analysis section answers specific questions about the memoir, including the choice of topic, the use of first-person narration, potential class reading list themes, influential books, the role of truth, and reflections on the experience. It highlights the adverse effects of migration on psychological and cognitive abilities, emphasizing the importance of communication and cultural adaptation. The assignment draws inspiration from Sheila Murray's "Environmental Migrants and Canada's Refugee Policy," connecting personal experiences with broader themes of immigration and cultural integration. Desklib provides a platform to access this and similar assignments.

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Part 1
“The reflective memoir”
The memoir will be focusing on one of my memories, which has affected my life
adversely since my young age. The seriousness of the memoir is dependent on the level of
change in the external and internal atmospheres that fostered a feeling of alienation in my world.
The incident has affected the communicability and the manner in which I might express myself
among others. The seriousness of the change has affected the mental stability and the manner in
which I might communicate with the people.
The year 2016 brought around a change in my lifestyle, as I was required to migrate from
Algeria to British Columbia due to my father’s transferrable postings. The seriousness of the
change left a permanent impression of the incident on my mind. I was well acquainted with all
the different proceedings that were prevalent in my school. On the other hand, I had a few
associates with whom I could share most of my childhood fears and delights. However, the shift
permanently snatched away my friends, my school and the guidance of my teachers. I felt like I
was introduced to a different sphere with unfamiliar people and their typical mentalities.
Alienated and diverged by the change I failed to communicate with my classmates and suffered
the blows of my unprecedented school life, all alone. The new place could not provide me with
the convenience or the support that I used to receive earlier. The migration affected my studies

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and health, more particularly, as I refused to go out and play with the other kids or even
concentrate on the materials and lectures that were delivered by the teacher at class.
The migration caused a serious issue in my academic career, as I could not adjust my
mentality and culture as per the different social structure and the processes that were followed by
the school. The different issues that were faced by me due to a conversion in the oriental issues
has affected my sense of understanding and adaptability in my new home. The differences in the
internal and the external environments of the region have affected my cognitive abilities. as the
style of teaching and the manner in which the teachers communicate with the students did not
match with my previous situations. The migration affected my sense of security, which created a
havoc distance between the world and me. I have gone through different hard time to make the
people aware of my needs; however, due to my failure to express the feelings I felt neglected.
The alienation that I faced in my new world metaphorically made me feel like I am inhabited in
an island with little scope to express, surrounded by emotionless beings who are devoid of any
particular understanding of care giving.
Part 2
Answer to question 1
I chose to write on the topic, as it is related to an instance I faced in my life. My father’s
external postings badly affected the basic academic career and thereby brought in changes in my
cognitive and psychological elements. The acclaimed topic has helped me in undertaking a
proper discussion of the issues that are faced by me during the childhood. The temporal shifts
that I faced have resulted to the clash in the cultures, which was tough for me to get adapted to in
the adolescence stage. The reflection on my past life was well supported and relevant to the topic

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I chose, which has helped me in diagnosing the different issues that I faced in my early
adolescent period.
Answer to question 2
I utilized the first person view to illustrate the manner in which I felt during the
migration. The challenges that I faced and the manner in which the shift affected my academic
career could be best defined by me as I faced it all. Therefore, I utilized the first person for
undertaking the proper illustration of my feelings and emotions at the time of the migration. The
first parson narration helps in retaining the flavor of the account that is being stated. It helps in
convincing the readers of the truthfulness of the account that is being stated. The most intriguing
part of writing the memoir is to express my emotions and feeling, which could be described in
detail through the utilization of the first person narration.
The lines - “ I felt like I was introduced to a different sphere with unfamiliar people and
their typical mentalities. Alienated and diverged by the change I failed to communicate with my
classmates and suffered the blows of my unprecedented school life, all alone. The new place
could not provide me with the convenience or the support that I used to receive earlier.” listed in
the memoir clearly portrayed the manner in which I felt while the migration was implemented in
my life. The first person narration helped me in enhancing the story telling to make the readers
aware of the circumstances that I faced. The utilization of the first person narrative has helped
me in maintaining the congruity between the account that is being stated and the real life
experience that I gathered. At times, the utilization of the second or third person for narrating the
account would simply alter the feeling that I aimed at inducing in the readers. Therefore, the
utilization of the first person narrative style has helped me in clearly stating the feelings that I

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felt, which would be known to none others. The quotation from the memoir that is highlighted in
this section clearly evokes the feeling among the readers of the alienation that I- personally felt.
The utilization of the first person narrative has also helped me in concentrating more on the
challenges that are faced by me while undertaking the immigration. The threats that the new
place had for me is my personal feeling which no one else can narrate better than me. Therefore,
I utilized the first person narrative for writing my own memoir for the clarity of the expressions.
Answer to question 3
If I were required to add the memoir as a class- reading list, I would have applied the
memoir to a theme that is related to “Migration- Its effects on the adolescence age” as it would
have helped me in making the readers aware of the overview of the memoir. It would have
helped me to update a relevant memoir as per the classification and thereby present a live
example of the manner in which migration in the younger age affects the psychological and
cognitive abilities.
An instance from the memoir, which would be helping to support my decision of
including the same under the classification of “Migration- Its effects on the adolescence age” is
– “The migration caused a serious issue in my academic career, as I could not adjust my
mentality and culture as per the different social structure and the processes that were followed
by the school.” The passage has helped in reflecting on the challenges that I faced due to the
migration. The excerpt from my memoir that is being highlighted in his section clearly reveals
the adverse effects of migration as I faced a change in the culture and mentality of the people
around me. The memoir is based on migration and thereby it could be included in the a class-
reading list “Migration- Its effects on the adolescence age”.

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Answer to question 4
The book that mostly inspired me in writing my memoir is “Environmental Migrants and
Canada's Refugee Policy” by Murray, Sheila as the book clearly portrayed the manner in which
the immigrants to Canada suffered due to the cultural shifts, which affected the academic and
employability skills of the people. The chief elements of Canadian laws are based on minimizing
the ecological pressure that is created through the activity of the immigrants. However, the
negative side of the coin reflected the ill- fate and loss of employability and academic career in
the nation for the immigrants, which largely affected the lifestyle of the people. The different
situations that are discussed in the article has helped me in supporting my views as per the
memoir I have created out of my past experiences.
Answer to question 5
Truth played a gigantic role in creating the layout for the memoir that I created as the
incident that I narrated. Truthfulness of the account and the facts that I shared during the
narration has helped me in embarking the different situations that are faced by me. Truth has
helped me in describing the different factual dimensions in details. It has added to the
effectiveness of the reflection.
Answer to question 6
The memoir has helped me in reflecting on the experience, looking back to the different
issues that posed a threat on the upbringing and the academic career due to immigration. It has
helped me in identifying the causes of the issues that are faced by me, which was related to the

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cultural shifts and conflicting mentalities. The various issues that were faced by me was
dependent on the lack of proper communication with the diverse minded people. The
communication with similar aged students at school and in the parks was restricted through the
inferiority complex that compromised my communication, which was devoid of any expression.