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As each author tells their story about the past, they also talk about how it has affected them and helped them become who they are today. For example, Boyarin starts his story when he was a child and was taken away from his home without any warning. He did not know the meaning of marginality until he was abruptly taken from his home. "I suddenly discover the distance between the world and myself at the end of August in 1966," (Boyarin 149) He also explains a number of experiences throughout his life that helped to shape his identity and become who he is today. Later he realized that these experiences influenced greatly who he became as an adult, "perhaps anthropologists in general - are motivated by a sense of loss," (Boyarin 163). As he changed from society to society he saw the different meaning of being a Jew, which allowed him to understand more himself and the different societies in which he lived. Gould, like Boyarin, also talks about the changes he went through starting as a child. He first talks about his experiences in school and how the word evolution was almost never mentioned because the society at that time did not approve of it. Gould always questioned this, and now as an educated adult he does not only analyze this but evolution itself. These changes obviously influenced him, since he became a biologist and explores subjects like these for a living "I am writing about the term "evolution" in the domain I know in order to explicate its strikingly different meaning in the profession that.still love avocationally," (Gould 327). Although in "Honor and Shame" Abu-Lughod explores the past in order to show how an individual can be affected by it, she does not talk about how she is affected but instead how another young girl is affected. Abu-Lughod talks about the past and how the changes that are undergoing affect young Bedouin women, in specifically Kamla. Kamla is a bright, young woman who is outspoken and opinionated, unlike other Bedouin women.
