Interpret what you learn in an interview of another person

Specifics:
1.    You may write a paper in which you a) interpret what you learn in an interview of another person or b) write a memoir of your own life.   This is a “Who are you and how did you become who you are” kind of inquiry.  
2.    Your paper should be approximately 2-3 pages in length (single-spaced) or 4-6 pages in length (double-spaced),  font of 11 or 12 (please do not use a font larger than 12).
3.    Your paper should include a thesis statement in the first paragraph; that is, what is the central theme of your paper?  Everything else that follows should support that thesis.  
4.    Please feel free to use the first person “I.”  This paper is your impressions and interpretations, so you belong in it!
Option 2:  Memoir

In this paper, you write a memoir of your own life in which you reveal active processes of thinking about and creating your own life.  In general, a memoir is an interpretation of a particular event or moment in a life, rather than a full autobiography, which sets out the details of a whole life.  If you choose this option, please identify a moment in your life that characterized a particular time in which you were “composing” your life; that is, making important decisions, choices, etc. within your value system.    

Here are some possible interview or memoir questions.  Please feel free to use those you find most valuable and add ones as well!  

Where were you born? When?
What were the circumstances of your birth? Family? Birth order?
What did you like to do as a child? A teenager? 
What did you want to be when you grew up?
What did you dislike or find irritating when you were growing up?
When, if you did, did you realize you had to “grow up”?
School? What did you think about it? Where did you go? Did you make a good choice?
Whom did you grow up with? Who raised you?
Who/what were important influences? Who/what was important to you?
Who do you identify with?
How do you identify yourself? How do you describe yourself?
Are social groups or categories -- racial, ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic, economic class, gender, sexuality, talent, etc. – important to how you think about yourself, or to how you orient yourself in the world?
How do you see yourself within community?  What kinds of connections to others are central to who you are and who you have become?
What challenges have you faced? Which do you consider your greatest accomplishments? What are you least proud of?
Do you have any regrets?
Who/what inspires you? Who do you want to become?
What (if you have any) are your religious beliefs? Political beliefs?  Moral beliefs? How have they played a role in your life?