Church or vicarage or anything that related to religion should contain something to teach people about good moral. However, in Sage’s Bad Blood we can see that the author perceives church not as a place which full of good deeds, but a place full of hypocrisy. This reflection will talk about on how the autobiography displays the ugly side of the church.

The first example is the grandfather who is a vicar which is depicted as womanizer by the author. As Sage finds the diary of her grandfather, she realizes the moral decadence of her grandfather by his surreptitious relationship with many women. This behavior can be considered as transgression, because he has already a wife and there cannot be accepted to have more than one relationship in his monogamy culture. His transgression also makes Sage fully hates with his grandfather. On the first chapter of this autobiography, she presents her grandfather as “[t]he ‘old devil’, my grandfather, …” (Sage, 2000: 7). Of course the characterization of her grandfather doesn’t reflect the proper church image. The way she hates her grandfather is also showed when her mother expresses Sage’s similarities with her grandfather and then she argues that she had bad blood of her grandfather.

Reading an autobiography to me is like reading the writer’s diary. The writer tells his perspective about everything he sees mentally and physically. Because of that, the confusion whether the story is fact or fiction comes into being. Autobiography is formed by the memoirs of the writer. In writing autobiography, the writer unconsciously will write the most memorable events, whether if the events engrave good or bad memories for her. Like in Sage’s Bad Blood, the story contains her memories about her past life, including her life with her grandparents and how he hates her grandfather by presenting him as “[t]he ‘old devil’, my grandfather, …” (2000: 7).

However, just like in the real life, the autobiography writer will also include other’s story in his story. In Sage’s autobiography, she is not just telling about herself, but also about his family, particularly her grandparents in the first part of the autobiography. It shows that there is connection between one person to another, and the connection constitutes the memory of the person. The person perceives this memory with many kinds of feeling. This perceived feeling can trigger person to create a narrative about the connection with other people. For instance, the writer’s feeling about her grandfather or the grandmother’s feeling about the grandfather.