The writer's use of personal experience

Your exam question asks you to focus on Loretta Ramkissoon’s use of personal experience in her essay “Which Floor?”. 

In many ways, Ramkissoon’s essay reads like an ode to Braithwaite Tower and council estates in general. She uses her own personal experience of living in Braithwaite Tower to present this kind of living in a positive light and to challenge the stereotypes people might have when it comes to residents of council estates.

From the start, Ramkissoon describes her life-long connection to the tower:

My grandparents were thirty years old when they moved in in April 1967. For the first time in their lives, after ten years of living in one room with two small children, they had their own place to call home. My mum and uncle were ten and nine years old respe...

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