If anything, Kincaid's essay Biography of a Dress, took away from what I thought of creative non fiction. At first I thought at it was supposed to be interesting but i found this reading to be utterly drawl and uninteresting. The story was uneventful, boring and seemed almost entirely pointless. Not to mention it seemed like it was written by a child and not just a reflection upon her childhood. I found all the parenthetical insertions to be disruptive and hackneyed, and not to mention the repetition of a certain phrase "though I am now, or I know that now" was painstakingly redundant. I hope in the future that the works we read are better written and a bit more interesting.
On the other hand I found Lott's essay useful and interesting. I liked alot of the things he says about creative non fiction such as how its sort of like a diary or a way of not letting your life slip by undocumented and how he has its like taking what we have done and who we have known and putting it in a story. I found this work provided me with a better understanding of CNF and a definition that I really liked.
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