The essence of a memoir is to look back at ones experience, and see Es

The essence of a memoir is to examine back at ones experience, and see how they have developed and matured.The essence of a memoir is to look back at ones experience, and seehow they have developed and matured. This is no different in DaveEggers fictitious memoir, A Heartbreaking Story of Staggering Genius.To explore what has changed a person it is important to look at whatmost of the persons time was spent doing. In Daves situation, thereis no shadow of a doubt, at the age of 22, his livelihood revolved aroundthe security and well being of his little familiar Christopher (Toph).To completely comprehend Eggers growth and maturity, it is essentialto analyze his relationship with his little brother Toph. Father,mother, brother, all wrapped in one, Dave becoming Tophs guardianconstructed the adult that Eggers would become.Dave did not become Tophs guardian because he wanted to, however becausehe was the one left over(p) over. Bill was come forward getting a job and Beth wasfinishi ng graduate school. Dave immediately tried to overcome thegrief of dealing with two dead parents, and taking care of Toph bymaking Tophs and his own lives fun. He spent all of the socialsecurity and inheritance on a nice house they went out all the timesinging to song, making of people in the car, playing lots of frisbeeat the beach. He seemed to drown out the sadness of the situation withtheir panegyrical money. At this point, Daves feelings still cannotescape him.Its Friday night and I should be out, across the bay, I should beout every night with the rest of the young people, holdfast my hair,spilling my beer, trying to get someone to touch my penis.. So yet, Icould be out, enjoying this freedom specifically and that... ... did verylittle lecturing (something everyones parents love to do) and justlet Toph explore life as it came. This is shown when Dave picks upToph from the girls house. Toph had played his first game of spin thebottle. Dave has all these expectations for Top h and was disappointedto hear that Toph thought nothing special of the girls, but instead ofgoing into his regrets he had, he just let it be, because Toph willfigure it out.This seems to be the parenting model in which Dave and Tophsrelationship is about. Dave spent slight time sheltering and trying tomold Toph to his expectations and more time just having fun with him.This created Toph to become an independent and responsible child.Because Toph was not a conventional parent, some whitethorn argue that Davehas little responsibility in Tophs maturing, but dont tell Dave,parent almighty, so.