These past few weeks we have been studying the structure and concept of narrative essays. Narrative essays allows us to share our experiences of how we came learn life lesson. Reading other authors essays, and combining my own personal narrative with a group was a great guide to learning how to write a marvelous narrative.
The essays we looked at are unique and different in their own ways. Each author has their own style and diction. Each piece gave me a different insight of who the author is and what he/she is trying to say. For example when I compare Gary Shteyngart's "Sixty-Nine Cents" to Bonnie Smith-Yackel's "My Mother Never Worked"; both stories are written with unique style and appeal differently. Shteyngart uses "I" throughout her paper and shares her her own feelings and experiences to describe her new life in America. While Yackel writes in a somewhat impersonal way of her mothers life; yet makes it completely personal. While reading her essay I compared my mom to her mother and saw that she writes in a way that almost everyone can relate to. The other pieces have a completely different style like, Martin Gansberg essay "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police." He doesn't write in first person but still writes a good story to make a point using an article he read. Narrative essays can be written in anyway and accomplish what the author wants his audience to know.
The group narrative essay was a challenge, but a good learning experience. Overall my group helped me understand where I lost readers and how to spice up my writing. In this narrative combination essay I got views of my peers on the topic and feedback on my own writing. I learned what type of lifestyle they enjoyed through the television serials they watched, and their writing style revealed a lot about who they were.
I think writing a narrative was easier than other types of essays because I was able to use my own feeling and experiences and no one can prove what I think is incorrect. A narrative is a story of events in an individuals life. Therefore you can talk about the most basic life adventure or you can write about your sudden realization of the world. Your narrative at the end should have a point at the end to give your literature more meaning.
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