Patricia Hampl "I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory"

Summary: This story was written from the perspective of a girl who is remembering her past experiences and writing a memoir. She is puzzled at the fact that she can remember some memories better than others. The girl tells us that when she writes a memoir she has changed some of the facts and otherwise told little lies about things. Memoirs are supposed to let the reader try and imagine and picture what the writer is talking about. The girl gives a lot of stories and vivid imagery to help the reader visualize the situation. She speaks a lot about how her father was a violinist and in this way she connects herself to him because he got her piano lessons so that they could have piano- violin duets.

Connection to making a Video: This story can be made into a movie and gives ideas for movies. We, as directors of our own movies, can look at memories from our past and retell them and add in different things that we find necessary to make the film more enjoyable for the audience. We can tell of stories that we have or obstacles we came across. On the other side, we can be narrators of our own story and jump around to different memories in our life, or talk about what we were thinking at the time of the memory while we replay the memory in the background.