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Personal Narrative: Defining My Identity

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The task of defining my identity has taken a different direction throughout the years. In my childhood, defining my characteristics was simple due to the fact that I would just state facts. As I went throughout the different periods of adolescence, my identity became influenced by many factors including my family, peers and society. My family influenced me to be a person filled with self-pride and confidence in my racial identity; peers helped me be more extroverted and independent, and society often confused the process of how I developed my identity. Without the many influences throughout my life, I potentially could have been antisocial with no sense of pride in my

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