Scars by David Owen
The surface culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is: Injuries
The deep culture component(s) of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is: nature of friendships, tolerance of physical pain
This is because:He goes through these journeys with his best friends, and makes many memories along the way. He also endures a lot of physical pain and has to find a way to fight through it.
The turning point of this memoir is when: His girlfriend ran away. This relates to his injuries because he and his girlfriend shared many memories together, and she was there for injuries, but he said he "didn't know her that well." But he was still envious when she ran away because he knew he longed for this freedom as well.
The author shows he/she has changed after this turning point by: saying that he wished he could just run away too.
A paragraph that demonstrates what I like about this writer’s style is: “When my daughter was ten, a careless boy at the ice rink cut the back of her hand with his skate, and I drove her to the emergency room to be sewn up. She was frightened and in tears, so on our way to the hospital I told her that some of my happiest, most vivid memories involved accidents. I showed her my dimple and told her about the scars on my arms and my big toe, and I ran down most of the rest of my inventory of falls and fractures and stitches and chipped teeth. I suggested that we think of her hurt hand not as a tragedy but as a potentially interesting adventure, which we would both remember with more than ordinary clarity, and by the time we got to the hospital she had cheered up” (Owen, Scars).
The devices (imagery, figurative language, dialogue, recipes, etc.) the writer uses to create meaning in this excerpt is: anecdotes, similes, metaphors, personification
