AHWOSG - Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers:

- Mother is the star of the story in the beginning; he mainly focused on her and her illness.
- Parents both died of cancer, his mother died first then 32 days later his dad died.
- Cared for his 8 year old brother, at the age of 21 becomes his brothers keeper.
- Being his brothers keeper led to his story.
- Themes of death and responsibility.
- He had appeared four times since 1998 and his work is not pure non-fiction, it is fictionalized.
- He has been acknowledged for his limitations (autobiography)
- Him and his brother move from Chicago to California.
- He tried to get into Television, MTV and documented his auditions and turns them into postmodern commentaries on his own self-conscious self-promotion.
- Themes of Self-awareness.
- He could of become a book reviewer.
- Without his tragedy he could've become a novelist.
- The beginning of the autobiography starts with his mother, talking of his relationship with his mother and her illness.
- Describes to MTV what is was like to grow up in Lake Forest in Chicago.
- Part of generation X
- Title is described as "hyperbolic"