Example of Narrative Essay

Then there was the time cheesecake gave us all free tickets to the reds game. Well I still have a rental. So I drive us being the DD. We stop and get whiskey on the way and start taking shots every time we stop in traffic. I hardly remember parking. Apparently I passed out eating a hot dog while tailgating with everyone. Holly and (I forgot her name but she was amazing (lesbian and she picked me up from the hospital when I fell off the bluff on my birthday at the bar)) Put me in my backseat.…

I have an unconventional background, a background full of struggles and self-realization. When I was young, around 4 years old, my family experienced one of the greatest obstacles that we could have ever imagined. You would never imagine that your father would be unlucky enough to acquire a stage 3 traveling cancer, but when it happens it is hard to ignore. This one event sparked a chain reaction that leads to my life today. My father’s initial illness lead to the loss of my family’s primary…

Popular author Shirley Jackson arguably pioneered the fictional dystopian genre with her short story “The Lottery”. Inspired by the hardships of the Second World War, the narrative elements of “The Lottery” signify the traits of a primal, dysfunctional, and ritualistic society. This is exemplified throughout the narrative as the plot, characters, and setting, all symbolize a particular aspect of a primitive dystopia. In the beginning of “The Lottery”, Jackson describes a ceremonious…

Borges’ “The Mirror of Ink” embodies the essence of a quintessential moral anecdote. Brief, deliberate and insightful, “The Mirror of Ink” certainly asserts to its readership a particular set of lessons and imperatives but, as the title implies, there is a complex and nuanced ambiguity to the content of Borges’ short story. The title of this piece is something of an oxymoron. A mirror is by nature a pure reflective surface. Ink, conversely, is muddled and opaque. A mirror of ink seems…

Narratives help people feel a personal connection with an individual. It also helps people gain a different perspective on certain views that they wouldn't have thought of to consider. Through story telling, it allows people to feel connected because of what is being shared. The people feel as one because they both have this shared experience. Stories can also teach people and give them a better understand on something they are unsure about. For example, Native American's used the art of story…

that I will be looking at is the genre of the film. Divergent can be linked to many genres due to the narrative but the main genres that it is categorised under are Action and Adventure. There are many ways in which we can relate Divergent to these genres by looking at different aspects of the film which matches the stereotypical values of an Action and/or Adventure film. The first clear example of this is the opening of the film. It starts out with a shot of a washed…

deals with her ascension into adulthood. Additionally, as the stories advance, it becomes apparent that both narratives revolve around the life of a misguided protagonist and their familial and societal relationships. Both lead characters are teenagers who have…

also what she thought: “Yes, good man! – thought Emma – but what has all that to do with taking likeness? You know nothing about drawing. Don’t pretend to be in raptures about mine. Keep your raptures for Harriet’s face” (Austen 1815: 42). Another example of the narrator being aware of Emma’s thoughts can be found during the walk Emma had with Harrier and then Mr. Elton joined them; at this moment of the novel Emma is still convinced that Harriet and Mr. Elton can have a future together: ‘To…

we can never at least begin to understand the point of views of others. Personal narratives serve this purpose. They allow us to start understanding things we may never experience ourselves. When reading an autobiography…

Within narratives authors incorporate different life events and experiences, which are techniques often used to develop character and plot, and make the text more accessible to the reader. However, authors choose to deal with and present these difficult life events using different methods. Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ and Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children both depict somewhat similar difficult life events in that they have similar settings, involve both domestic and political conflict…