Blog 9
In the narrative essay" Eat, Memory" (2017), David Wong Louie describes his personal experience with not being able to eat following surgery for his throat cancer. He walks his reader through his initial cancer diagnosis and the troublesome events that led to him being reduced to the "G-tube". Louie scrolls down memory lane and gives very detailed accounts of his experiences both with food and without food in order to show his reader how monumental of a role it played in his life. Just like so many people across the world, dining out and bonding over food was a big part of Louie's work and personal life. Eating is something one takes for granted without even realizing it. This essay's intended audience are those who are dealing with the excruciating alienation of not being able to connect with people as they once were able to and those who may need a reminder to show more gratitude for the small things. The way in which Wong presents to the wo