nal, just using them to conjure up silent memories and not having the need to share them with anyone.
             Paulsen conveys the message of his memoir through his voice and narrative structure. He has an engaging voice-a voice that captures his rebellious personality. With his voice, Paulsen makes himself an adept storyteller as he moves both backward and forward in time, switching back and forth between scene and summary and controlling his pace and tension in the story. He writes, "I walked all the way back to town in the headlights, at first swearing at him under my breath and then more openly, and...I thought about stealing and that the skis would not have been worth this much effort or discomfort and that this cop was an asshole and that if I ever did
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