I believe that the thesis of this story is: one cannot truly understand another until one lives like the other. In the essay the author spends her whole life not understanding why her mother could not be both a doctor and a mother. When she has similar experiences to her mother's she begins to understand the questions she really should be asking. "Why couldn't you work part time?" "How far did you get in your residency" "What made you quit?"
Through asking her questions and living a life different from her mother's only because it was a different time period the author proves her thesis.
Your working experience contains all sorts of WP1 possibilities. Knowing all of UNCA's "secrets" by being an intern sounds intriguing. Being an intern in general often produces tons of stories. The idea that parents are worse than their kids could also be the topic of a memoir.
ReplyDeleteYour McMurray post, while spot on in identifying the thesis, is rather short and lacks direct quotes from the text to support your assertions.