The Good Out Weighs the Bad, Sooner or Later

In writing a memoir, Frank Mathias made it simple to comprehend the tricks. To write a piece of art, you must be a historian and an artist. In order to be a historian you had to have been through something that changed the way you think, or the way you believe which makes the story or experience factual. The artist in an individual must be able to incorporate the sensory details in order to really tell the story by captivating the reader and bringing them into the memoir.
An example of artistic captivity would have to be “Knocked Up” by Nicole Filmore. She made me feel as though I was also living in a house with a pregnant 17 year old sister. When she was ordered to do things because her sister couldn’t keep up with chores, she resorted to bitching about them in her memoir. This shows the more immature yet artistic way of expression through the use of profanity. Although Nicole has a way of dealing with problems through complaining and counting down the days until her sister will finally has her baby, we later see that after all this time, Nicole had had a life changing experience in the delivery room. She had hated the fact that her sister got all of the attention, yet fell in love with the idea of having a baby, deciding that her baby niece was her “everything.”
I really understand where Nicole’s coming from when she gets dumped with all the chores and hates the neglect. When my parents first opened their night club business, it was nothing but late nights and never really getting to bond with my family the way we used to before the crazy entertainment business took hold of their lives. But there’s one thing I don’t understand. Why didn’t Nicole do anything to get away from what she hated the most? Why didn’t she find the time to be with friends and do things for her rather than always be confined to the walls of her own home and tending to her master of a sister? I understand that she needed to be there for her sister in the mean time, but I don’t see why she never mentioned the time she had alone to herself. Maybe that’s why she was so bitter before the baby arrived. Maybe that’s why she was never into the whole thought of her 17 year old sister having a baby so young. Reading Nicole’s “Knocked Up” memoir really showed me that no matter what situation your family's in, the good will out-weigh the bad, sooner or later.