The theme of "Blue" seems to be the idea that sometimes you really have no idea what you are getting yourself into. This is made clear by the reaction he has when he realizes he just transported semi-automatic weapons. The narrator writes "Safe in the driver’s seat I looked down, my shirt moved with my pulse. What had I got myself into? Who the hell was Blue?" The theme of "Getting Close to the Machine" is the challenge of balancing two completely different world that are a part of your life.
Both memoirs are very good at balancing detail and dialogue. In "Blue" the author speaks of two apples, one that begins the story and another that ends it and all the bruises in between He also writes out key dialogue that also moves the story along, allowing for the characterization of Blue not to be solely the interpretation of the narrator. In "Getting Close to the Machine" uses the confusing dialogue between two programmers to show how high the emotions are running as the deadline closes in, and then uses details of the squalor they are living in to create an image.
For my own memoir I'm writing about my experiences dealing with self-absorbed customers in a heavily customer service focused store. I plan on going into detail about certain situations, using dialogue to define them and then my own private reactions to each story. In the end I hope to connect what I learned working at a toy store to my two internships and future jobs in totally different fields.
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