Biographical texts convey a biased sense of reality and this is strongly influenced by the cultural background and life experience of the particular person conveying this view of reality. Lance Armstrong, in his autobiographical text, It's Not about the Bike, and George Tillman director of Men of Honour, both depict characters with an unshakeable belief in their future, through the use of various textual features which foreground the central theme that anything is possible and achievable. This dominant reading is privileged in both texts through discourse, which aims to position the audience to explore the cultural backgrounds that had significantly shaped the biased perceptions of life. The author and director's beliefs are further foregrounded through the representation of obstacles in their lives and the use of gaps and silences is also evident in both texts to privilege the dominant perspective and silence opposing views.

Both the author and...