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Dissertation
Searching for Benny's Grave
2021
Overview
Searching for Benny’s Grave is the memoir of a highly accomplished middle-aged woman who still yearns for the love of her ninety-year-old father—a former Nazi prisoner of war and veteran of three wars. The woman and her father are survivors.The narrator feels that her father rejected her when, as a young girl, she didn’t conform to his vision of a traditional female. Their relationship disintegrated when she threw away her full Reserve Officers’ Training Corps college scholarship. Now, as an adult, she makes one last attempt to please him—she searches for his baby brother’s grave so that her father can finally say good-bye to Benny.The craft essay describes the author’s use of persona to write through her pain with reflection, syntax, and psychic distance. The essay defines key terms and concepts, debates the honesty of using a persona, and describes some of the key craft tools that underpin a persona.The narrator’s persona changes throughout the arc of the story. The narrator embodies a victim-oriented persona in the beginning but ends with a warrior-oriented persona. The conclusion incorporates what the author has learned and highlights the rewrite of a shameful memory using a persona.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Subject
ISBN
9798759948797
