Audrey Hepburn
“Putting Her Life in Words” To grasp someone’s life with all their accomplishments and emotions is a difficult task to do. Only talented writers can make the readers feel what the person felt. Barry Paris conquered and executed this task greatly when writing about Audrey Hepburn. His book, Audrey Hepburn, is very descriptive, informative, interesting and it makes you fall in love with Audrey. Barry quoted Ronald Hynde, “ ‘She was this very pretty, strange Dutch girl who suddenly arrived at the Rambert school―slight accent, beautiful face, everyone’s idea of Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty , but with something different about her’ ” (Paris 43). Her bubbly personality makes it a fun read for the audience, and an easy write for Barry. Description is an important part of a biography. The book has lots of detail about Audrey’s life, achievements, romance, miscarriages, family, and her involvement with UNICEF. Every little thing that happened to Audrey you can read about it. It is a good thing because it lets you know everything that happened in her life; her struggles, her malnourishment, her broken heart, the struggles she faced and the pain she went through. It explains her whole life story and even a bit before and a bit after. Although it’s a good thing, it can also be considered a bad thing because not everyone wants to know everyone about someone’s life. Brief details and explanations suffice. Many family affairs were written about. The book should be strictly about Audrey and not her family or their problems. “Baron van Heemstra had by then resigned Sykora 2 as Governor of Surinam… ” (7) wrote Paris. This had nothing to do with Audrey and had no effect on her. Being descriptive is one of Barry’s specialties, it was not necessary in this case. Audrey’s life was captured in three