Katrina Assigment

I was reviewing the assignment and wanted to put my questions and concerns into writing before I forget them for class tomorrow. I found a great article of a personal account and I have a very interesting idea for the assignment, however I feel like it will be difficult because the story is already written. Eggers listened to Zeitoun and could therefore create his own story. I read this person's personal account so I feel it may be difficult writing in a different way. I'll have to try to look at it from a different perspective. Using a personal story is tricky as well because I know I'll want to change it and make it a little different just for the purpose of keeping the reader's attention but by doing so I almost feel as if I'm undermining the person's experiences. I can see the difficulties Egger's could have face while going about writing the story. Everyone hates when they read an awesome book and it comes out on movie and the movie is totally different. I wouldn't want to be the author that totally changes the idea of the story. It's going to take serious thought and creativity to successfully rewrite the experiences of people. I think a good way to go about doing it is to use the one man's personal account as the basis of the story but incorporate other facts or stories from other victims' experiences to change it up. I'll obviously have to note that in the author's decision part of the paper though so that people know I changed the story. Being and author is definitely not all fun and games!