The assessment should be 1 full page, typed, double-spaced and conform to the formatting and content guidelines for the course.

Prompt:

This prompt asks you to consider the ending of Red Hills and Cotton as a reflection of the concerns and a summary statement of the themes of the memoir as a whole. Your weekly assessment should speak generally about this, picking up on points that you find significant, but there are some key questions any response should engage. What is significant about Robertson giving the ending over to a character, as opposed to the narrator? Consider this in general and in light of the character who has the literal last word in the memoir. While there is no expectation that a memoir function as a fictional narrative does, are all of the threads and storylines resolved in some way in the ending? Does the ending reflect the concerns of the memoir as a whole? If so, how so? If not, why end at this point?