KMN

So... memoirs, essays, and life stories on postcards. They have a surprisingly large amount in common. All of them are shorter genres, though really that is a very vague claim because you could technically write any of them however long you wanted. The main point is that they are all "nonfiction." They are all expected to be "real."However, they are all altered versions of reality. Memoirs are supposedly real events that have happened in someone's life, yet they are written many years later from only one person's perspective so many aspects may change. Essays are also one person's opinion on a matter, and that perspective may not be reality yet it is classified as nonfiction. The life stories on the back of the postcards are people's lives made interesting. They are not the truth, or a summary of a life, but they are entertaining and based on reality.