Notes from Tuesday 5/24:

Title: "Past Present"
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Genre: personal narrative/ comparison/contrast

Speaker (who is speaking--what do we know about him/her?)—author—Baca; was in prison out 12 years.  Now a writer/making a movie/father/husband

Occasion (time and place of the writing? what prompted the writing?)--
he went back to his former prison to make a movie and feels himself reminiscing about his former life

Audience (who is he speaking to? may be more than 1)--
former inmates, current inmates, people who have never been in prison, people who have had similar experiences, himself

Purpose (what does the speaker want each audience to think or do?)--

to tell others what it was like, understand his own transformation

Subject (the basic topic of the piece?)—the author a former prison inmate goes back to his former jail and compares/contrasts his current and former self

Tone—depressed, angry, disappointed, nostalgic