For this video lesson, I have selected three passages from a memoir I love and admire, Tarn Wilson’s The Slow Farm.  I discuss them as a lesson on using details and sensory information to evoke the point-of-view of a memoir’s protagonist–the writer’s. Here Tarn is using her point-of-view as young a child. We learn at every turn about the difference between the adults in her world and the child in the particular scenes Tarn draws.

And at the end, I provide an assignment. I hope that you might post a passage you write in the comment boxes below. And I will reply.