Personal Narrative: The Great Dictator By Charlie Chaplin

When were young everything is new, cool, and captivating; we experience the world with curiosity. As we get older, we confine, we constrict, and we counteract the world around. If placed in a nerve racking situation, we strive to make it positive, it is what we do. There was quote I have always enjoyed from the prominently silence actor, Charlie Chaplin in the 1940s film, The Great Dictator, he says, “...we think too much, and feel too little.” I like to think of myself as someone who always wants to experience life, both the ups and the downs. It's a little difficult to cram 19 years of life into 3 minutes. But I hope through the personal stories, five sentence descriptions, and previous work experiences, you all get to know me, Tyler Cannon, a little better. …show more content…
When I was younger, I enjoyed balloons; red, yellow, green, small, big, and those ones that make your voice really high. All were welcomed. However, one time I had got a balloon stuck in a ceiling fan. Naturally, my mother attempted to free it. Basically, she used a knife to cut the part of the string caught in the fan, nothing too shockingly cool. What makes this story funny is how I reacted. Seeing my mother with a knife made my boyish mind think, I could help if I had a knife. A brilliant combination, young boy with a knife. I retrieved a butter knife and in my vast young wisdom proceed in sticking said knife into a nearby socket. Shocking, believe me, I