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Summary Of A Life Of Her Own By Emilie Carles

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A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth Century France by Emilie Carles is a twentieth century memoir of her life in France, from her village in Val-des-Pres, as a peasant girl, to Paris, as a student and also as a rebel against the idea of war. For she gives the readers of today an inside look at her life before and during both World Wars, World War I and World War II. In this critique of Emilie Carles’, A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth Century France; which was translated by Avriel H. Goldberger, I will analyze her reason for writing the autobiography, her use of data, and her diction. Emilie’s reason for writing her life story was to present her life as a French countrywoman during the 1900’s to the lives of those outside of France, for she wanted to give her audience a visual of her pains and glories through her own living words before she passed away in 1979. I loved how she painted the picture of the peasant life in every page, especially at the beginning. For she illustrated how the people in her village were struggling financially and were not worried about the health of their family members and themselves, instead the men in the families were more …show more content…

An excellent example of this was expressed when she told the story about her fall from two-stories, nearly killing herself, and how her father was not concern about her wellbeing; instead, he continued to go get the bull from the fair while her

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