After reading a few essays by three different groups of people: The Doctors, the Nurses and the Patients. People hold different styles in almost every aspect in life such as types of music, clothing, colors, books, and films. So when it comes to different writing styles, then one can agree with that also. One just never thinks about it and with people having what they think is “good’ personal writing. Good personal Writing should include humor, graphic details, things I can relate to, and not too much gore.
A sense of humor in a personal essay is a good thing. Humor is a great way to keep the reader interested and not get bored with the information one is trying to give the reader. Such as when Nancy Mairs put in her essay “On Being a Cripple” …show more content…
When the reader can picture what is happening, they can obtain a fuller grip of what is being said For instance, in the essay “A Long Night’s Journey into Day” Theresa Brown talks about one time a patient come into the hospital who is very much such as her in age and in how old her kids are. She then goes on to communicate how this woman looked she compared her to a blueberry. “I first met Rose during one of the many admissions that followed her allo (allogeneic stem cell transplant). Or maybe that was when she really caught my attention. She’d developed a rash that turned her face purple.” She moves along to say “This can occur as a result of graft versus-host disease, a side effect of allogeneic transplants, but it’s still surreal to watch a human patient so resemble a blueberry.” (95-96). When someone writes something in detail the reader can picture themselves in the moment and they are going through what the writer was putting on paper. For instance they can feel what the husband is going through and the kids because they don’t want their mom or wife to die but they also know all the pain that she has gone through she wants to die and not suffer any more there is a conflict that the reader witnesses when they read the …show more content…
I think that as a student, employee, and a single mom, I am missing out on a lot of things with everything (school, work, and family) just because I am trying to do everything and there are just not enough hours in the day to get it all done consequently, I tend to miss out on a lot of things that is going on because of me trying to have a lot of irons in the fire. Nonetheless at the end of the day I can say one will know what I did and my life and my son’s life are better because of all the sacrifices that we
A sense of humor in a personal essay is a good thing. Humor is a great way to keep the reader interested and not get bored with the information one is trying to give the reader. Such as when Nancy Mairs put in her essay “On Being a Cripple” …show more content…
When the reader can picture what is happening, they can obtain a fuller grip of what is being said For instance, in the essay “A Long Night’s Journey into Day” Theresa Brown talks about one time a patient come into the hospital who is very much such as her in age and in how old her kids are. She then goes on to communicate how this woman looked she compared her to a blueberry. “I first met Rose during one of the many admissions that followed her allo (allogeneic stem cell transplant). Or maybe that was when she really caught my attention. She’d developed a rash that turned her face purple.” She moves along to say “This can occur as a result of graft versus-host disease, a side effect of allogeneic transplants, but it’s still surreal to watch a human patient so resemble a blueberry.” (95-96). When someone writes something in detail the reader can picture themselves in the moment and they are going through what the writer was putting on paper. For instance they can feel what the husband is going through and the kids because they don’t want their mom or wife to die but they also know all the pain that she has gone through she wants to die and not suffer any more there is a conflict that the reader witnesses when they read the …show more content…
I think that as a student, employee, and a single mom, I am missing out on a lot of things with everything (school, work, and family) just because I am trying to do everything and there are just not enough hours in the day to get it all done consequently, I tend to miss out on a lot of things that is going on because of me trying to have a lot of irons in the fire. Nonetheless at the end of the day I can say one will know what I did and my life and my son’s life are better because of all the sacrifices that we