Comparing Jeanette Winterson's Memoir

Comparing Jeanette Winterson's Memoir

Introduction

The purpose of writing is this paper is to provide readers a comparison Jeanette Winterson's two master pieces, one is 'Why be happy if you could be normal' that took from her novel Lighthouse Keeping. Therefore, for this reason, similar themes has been detected from both master pieces and related to real life examples, thus, in doing this, biographical elements also recognized in the novel and the shared themes also discussed that shared by both novels.

Winter son opened her eyes in the city of Manchester and was brought up in Lancashire. She started her career by writing sermons for women at the age of six. When she was only sixteen she left her home and started to do odd jobs while studying at the St. Catherine's College present in Oxford.

She has some award winning writings to her credit. Her book “Oranges are not the only Fruit” won the Whitbread Prize and was also adapted as a serial for the television. Winterson's following novels are known to explore the very boundaries of imagination and physicality, sexual identities and gender politics and are known to be awarded with a number of literary awards.

Comparison

Abstract of “Why be Happy when you could be Normal”

Winterson's memoir gives a feeling that it is written hurriedly and sparsely. Sometimes the writing looks as if it is written in a note form; the impression which a reader gets from the writing is not of sloppiness at all rather the writer is trying to communicate the urgency and need to make the readers understand the view point of the writer (Winterson, 2008). The written material gives an impression that it is least control and least turbulent. In the end of the book there is an emotional force attached to the second half that makes the reader suspect that the apparent artlessness in the first half is a re use again.

Why be happy when you could be normal is one of the real life question of Winterson's mother. Winterson is dispossessed at the age of 16 for her girlfriend. The book contains phrases and passages that are used in her other books as well. So jokes and anecdotes crop in her books. In this particular book she has presented the view of her mother when she came to know about Winterson's that she was a lesbian and how she was evicted from ...