Narrative Essay Examples for College

Haiti is a place where Edwidge Danticat’s heart lays in. It is where the saying Krik? Krak! came from.” Krik? Krak!” is the title of Danticat's book and she uses the saying in one of her stories. When someone says Krik? another person says Krak! and tells a story. People are able to connect to with each other and bond in a way. Edwidge uses juxtaposition in her book Krik? Krak! The juxtaposition is when you compare two things that are the very opposite. In the series of short stories, Edwidge…

The epic conclusion to The Hunger Games quadrilogy arrives one year removed from the series’ previous installment, Mockingjay Part 1 – and does so with a high-rising wave of anticipation. What will be the fate of Katniss Everdeen and her quest to defeat the villainous President Snow? Who will Katniss select on the romantic front? Can the rebellion capture the capital? All pressing questions that cinematic fans are dying to have answered… Well, book readers have obviously been clued in for…

“ Memories, may be beautiful and yet what’s too painful to remember.” Barbara Streisand's lyrics in her song, “The Way We Were” shows that memories are brilliant but many can have a negative emotional effect as well. F. Scott Fitzgerald had a difficult time naming the book “The Great Gatsby” even though it’s truly a story about memories the name is misfitting. After all, “The Way We Were” would have been a more fitting title. Memory is what manages us, if we couldn't recall the who, what, when,…

Last Stop on Market Street is an award winning picture book about a little black boy called CJ and his grandmother who take the bus to work at a soup kitchen after church on Sundays. The author uses words and phrases very effectively within this book to really paint a picture of the city and it's people. At the beginning of this book the author uses figurative language to describe the air as smelling 'like freedom, but it also smelled like rain' this phrase goes a long way in identifying the…

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien “In war, truth is the first casualty”. These words by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus show how the nature of war hasn’t changed in the last two thousand years. During times of War truth gets very muddy and hard to understand, it becomes hard to separate what really happened to what seems to have happened. Ambiguity is the common denominator of every War. “The Things They Carried” is a book about the Vietnam War, but it is also a book about Storytelling itself…

In “The Bottle Imp” by Robert Louis Stevenson the author uses a variety of literary devices to entice the reader. Stevenson uses literary devices such as suspense, foreshadowing, flashback, and surprise ending. A notable literary device that is used is suspense. Stevenson uses suspense not only to entice the reader, but to make sure the reader is aware of what's going on while raising questions of what will happen next. To clarify, an example of suspense being used in the story is in paragraph…

Fargo is the fictitious story of a series of murders taking place in a small town in the state of Minnesota named Fargo. Fargo’s story in known for its comically dark tone which radiates an immersive feeling of hopeless dread; but what really makes it interesting is the fact that the tale is told in both movie and television format. What is so interesting about Fargo’s multiformat is that it gives the viewer the opportunity to analyze and dissect what aspects of both iterations make them…

effect. John Irving, the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany, utilizes several different techniques to achieve a distinct sense of style in his novel that sets it apart from others. Through the use of unique dialogue and constant transitions to a narrative told from the present, Irving is able to set apart important characters and foreshadow the conclusion of the novel. Irving’s use of unusual dialogue, especially in regards to the character of Owen Meany, holds significant meaning within the…

A bold juxtaposition of real and fantastical worlds is at the heart of Guillermo Del Toro’s visually striking, 2006 film, Pan’s Labyrinth. Through the application of audacious stylistic techniques, Del Toro creates a mesmerising, yet haunting cinematic experience. The lush binding of lighting, camera, and sound techniques are used to morph between eerie fairy-tale escapades and a horrific reality to create a film which expresses the value of imagination. The colour palette and its association…

Mike Nichols 1967 film ‘The Graduate’ is a comedy that illustrates a three-act film structure and includes the major structural elements. The film depicts a recent college graduate (Dustin Hoffman), whose feeling of a lack of purpose results in his life becoming dominated by his relationship with Mrs. Robinson and eventually, her daughter Elaine. Act I establishes the key characters; Benjamin, his parents and their friends, including, Mrs. Robinson. It feels as though Benjamin is on a different…