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Q Threadead Discussion weak 2_Joan Didion's essay begins on a deeply personal note, with a confession of sorts about why she and her significant other, whom the reader understands to be her boyfriend, broke up. It's a single statement accompanied by the date and location where Didion was when she wrote it; it's a snapshot of her life at a single point in time. Didion continues to ask her questions, leaving the reader with more questions. What had she been up to in Delaware? "Are you waiting for a train or are you missing a train?"

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Didion then goes on to answer a more general question: why keep a notebook in the first place? However, the manner she responds to these questions mirrors the elements of the essay that Klaus mentions. Didion might have made this a persuasive essay in which she explains why people should maintain a notebook, or she could have written it as an article in which she explains the benefits of keeping a notebook. Instead, she responds to the questions while pondering them.