Paris: The Memoir

Research ADHD. What are some of the symptoms and causes of ADHD? How does it affect people? What are some interventions, medical or otherwise, that can help people with this condition? How does what you learned about the disorder coincide with what Hilton shares in her memoir?

This book is a celebrity memoir. Research the characteristics of the celebrity memoir, and then explain the ways in which Hilton’s book is or is not typical of the genre. Why do you think that celebrities like Hilton choose to write such books?

Read Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me. In Paris, Hilton calls out the treatment that young female celebrities like Spears and herself experienced at the hands of the industry and the media. What parallels do you find between these two memoirs and stories?