How does Naipaul use autobiography in "Reading and Writing" to create a literary event?

 In all autobiographies in order to make them relatable and understandable authors take literary writing techniques. In this sense in “Reading and Writing”, Naipaul uses some of these methods. First of all the way he presents his dad seems like he is creating a character, choosing some special characteristics that can help us see him as he does as we don’t share every experience he has had with him. Also he describes his surroundings, a collection of random objects, he takes those which seems most important to him to create something we, as readers, can understand and relate to. He does this when describing the place. Also as one does an autobiography it’s very important to keep in mind that no two persons have the same interpretation of the same event.

The details that Naipaul have recorded in his memory about things like his father and his classroom when he was young are not the same that some other people present in this situation. Also when one is remembering things that happened a long time ago physiologist theorize that we do not remember that specific moment, but actually the last time that we thought about it. So elements of fiction are added every time that we revisit a memory from our past. Also as persons we like to exaggerate things when telling them to other people. So if Naipaul has narrated the story that he writes to other people before it can be possible that there are certain elements that are added.  Also to make it more appealing to the reader he probably selected some specific situation and changed the order in which some characteristic of the memory may have been presented a the time in which it actually occurred. So in this way Naipaul and everyone that writes an autobiography incorporates literary techniques.