While constructing a story, there are a few concrete rules all authors must attend too. As people read a story they are either looking to learn something, be entertained, or take something away they can apply to their own lives. In order to fulfill the reader’s purpose, each story must contain relevance to the reader along with an engaging and interesting storyline including internal conflict within the main character. Having relevance to the reader is a key aspect for any story. Personally, when I have to read a story with little to no impact or meaning to my life I’m bored before it even begins.…
Often times, a retelling of an event cannot give justice towards the original experience itself. As a species of over seven billion, it is often hard to experience something truly unique or exclusivehing exclusive from that of the experiences of others; ; however, it is those experiences that not only separate us from each other, but also helps to define the core personality of each and every one of us. Exclusive events, good or bad, are the spawn of different sets of factors that influence one: an activity, a job, education, etc. Thomas Hardy, a famous novelist, once said that only stories which are exceptional and unordinary are worth telling. Marcus Luttrell, author of the narrative Lone Survivor, used his unique experience being a Navy…
Personal narratives were another type of writing, Professor Fleming put a distinct focus on, early in the semester. Looking back, I wrote an essay based off my favorite summer experience. In this piece, I used vivid description details to help paint a picture of my experience. Getting an opportunity to describe the different parts of Hampton Beach, gave me some serious insight into what it is like to write about and elaborate on what I was seeing.…
Part one From my mid-term evaluation by my supervisor (Wayne Harris) I have learned that I am doing a great job here at Elizabeth City Pasquotank County Economic Development Commission. My job here at the internship is to build an accurate database of residential home sales in Pasquotank County. I also have done street survey on downtown vacancies. My strongest asset is that I am very punctual, reliable, and able to handle complicated data searches.…
For my personal essay, some difficulties I believe that I may encounter revolve around making my personal experience entertaining and relevant for the reader to continue and enjoy reading. When I read “Running in the Family” by Michael Ondaatje, I felt that it was not interesting whatsoever. I did not want to continue reading it because the question “so what?” keeping on running in the back of my mind, after every story told. For my personal essay, I would like to find a way to make it more relatable and thought provoking.…
PERSONAL NARRATIVE My personal narrative is about the time my church (Family life Fellowship) took the youth leadership team on a ranch retreat. Two summers ago I went on a ranch retreat with the leadership team. We went to the youth pastor's wife’s parents two thousand acre ranch outside Bennington Oklahoma. On this ranch they had cattle,swine,horses, and a few chickens.…
Do you remember when you were a little kid and you had to climb on your counter-top to reach a cabinet? I remember it as if it was yesterday, maybe because it really was. All my life I have been dramatically smaller than all my peers. I have always been ostracized for the fact of my height which, in fact I have no jurisdiction over . I have always lived by the motto “Heart over height” in every aspect of life, and in every endeavor I encounter.…
There was a boy named Liam Wilson. He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He is as normal as normal gets. He wakes up, goes to school, comes back home, and goes to bed. There is nothing “supernatural” about that, right?…
It all started on a wednesday morning it was a good day at school there isn’t to much talk about. So when school ended i rode the bus home like usual I got dressed up and went to football practice. When I got there i got a strange feeling like if my gut was trying to tell me something so I ignored it and to the locker room and i just remembered that it was going to be the first day of full pads so i put on my pads nervously put them on and bamm I walked out and went to the practice field.…
The first thing I noticed was the color. It was faded in one section. The different layers were now becoming visible. The pattern of the couch reminded me of it. I sat in the spot.…
I come from a family of seven with me being the fourth out of five kids. I was always the shy kid in school, so I did not stand out in my classes as much as the other kids. The only thing that set me apart from my classmates and siblings was my grades. Getting straight A’s practically my entire life had made me the go-to person for homework help. Throughout middle school and high school, my younger sister would always get sick with migraines.…
It’s true when they say adventure is out there. You just have to be willing to discover the beautiful things in life. I never thought I could visit some place so breath taking and so remarkably beautiful like Galveston. A place filled with many things to do and, gorgeous sites to see. To tell you the truth, I really don’t get out much but, when opportunity knocks at my door, I’m always willing to answer.…
I chose the episodic narrative piece because I believe it was the hardest, yet most interesting writing I have written this semester. I struggled with this piece because I tend to have too many details in my stories. The episodic narrative allowed me to get out of my comfort zone and keep my writing precise, but also work on only using important details. The episodic narrative began as a slightly different list of vacations. Even within the vacations I had from the beginning I revised my ideas on the most important story from each.…
Most people start out their personal narrative with something touchy feely or something but this one's going to be a little different. I feel bad for some people whose lives are sad and all they can think of are thing that are sad. All my events are happy and worth reading. I hope u enjoy the passage u are about to read;) My first event is my baptism.…
The Text She actually texted me. My thought as I’m looking for shoes in the mall with my friend and look down at my phone. I feel the oxygen leaving my body, but there seems to be none coming in. “Lex, what’s wrong?”…