Researcher ORCID Identifier
0000-0003-2841-1592
Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Reader 1
Glenn Simshaw
Reader 2
Kimberly Drake
Terms of Use & License Information
Abstract
This thesis is about family and community truths and stories, childhood anxieties and sensitivities, and a kid who desperately still wants to make you think she’s clever. This collection of essays anchored by personal stories aims to highlight the ways that we tell stories to an audience. As children tell stories, they gauge their listener, slowly learning to use rhetorical tools, and by the time we are adults, we have learned to alter our stories entirely to please listeners. This project experiments with the rhetoric used in these moments as we uncover our carefully stored memories and stories from our childhoods, comparing the differences in stories we told as kids and the way we tell those stories as adults.
Recommended Citation
Dolan, Megan, "A Bouquet of Recollections: Examining the Transition From Children’s Stories to Adults’ Essays" (2022). Scripps Senior Theses. 1893.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1893
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
