Personal Narrative Analysis

This article is, in my opinion, an example of how personal narrative can sometime confuse the author’s purpose. In order to frame her arguments she discussed her experiences with her family, and specifically how she was born a twin to a stillborn sister. She explains her families lack of coping and how her family effected her life, but I failed to focus on the overarching idea that she wanted to get out because of how distracting the stories from her personal life are. Instead found myself thinking that her story was strangely personal without much justification for why it was this way. While the point of her article, the balance between truth and respect, was somewhat present overall, the sections of personal narrative that she decided to include muddled it. …show more content…
However when she did write on these topics in the essay, they were full of examples. Short quotes and excerpts form other author’s work were constantly thrown in as supporting details for her purpose, but the information came so fast that it was hard to focus on the point she was making. I found myself somewhat lost among literary and scholarly references. This scholarly style of writing was alongside the very personal narratives that the author weaves in and out of the paper, and the two don’t seem to mesh. Both of these are examples of somewhat polarized styles of writing. While there are occasions where an author can skillfully put together these two styles, that didn’t seem to be the case here. I found myself feeling as though I was jumping back and forth between two different