Personal Narrative-It's On The Road

On the day of the meeting, he wakes up late, hurriedly dressed, rushes out the door, and then hits heavy traffic on his way to town. Stuck on the highway in bumper to bumper traffic, gas gage on yellow, near empty, and running late; he feels panicky. Once off the highway, he rushes to the first gas station, but it is too crowded. He hastily drives hoping to make it to the next one, but he hears the all too familiar sound the car makes when it is out of gas. Luckily, there is parking available.

On the day of the meeting, he wakes up late, hurriedly dressed, rushes out the door, and then hits heavy traffic on his way to town. Stuck on the highway in bumper to bumper traffic, gas gage on yellow, near empty, and running late; he feels panicky. Once off the highway, he rushes to the first gas station, but it is too crowded. He hastily drives hoping to make it to the next one, but he hears the all too familiar sound the car makes when it is out of gas. Luckily, there is parking available.

The first important instance we see an automobile driven in the novel eerily foreshadows events towards the end. As Gatsby is throwing one of his frequent elaborate parties, a minor single-vehicle accident occurs as the party is dying down. The party goers are both heavily intoxicated and the car is crashed into a ditch. A man jumps out of the coupe and is mistaken as the driver or owner until another man emerges. Fitzgerald inserts a piece about people loving machines despite not knowing how they operate, in the dialogue.

On the street, where all had been quiet for more than an hour, where any vehicle that did pass did so in a hurry on its way up the hill, a vehicle passed at very low speed. It oozed past his bedroom, its lights briefly igniting the curtains into a brilliant white glow they passed. The throb of the car’s powerful engine was felt as much as hear as it crept by maybe five miles per hour.

In the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless had many decisions to leave his old life behind and start over. Chris’ decision to leave was justified for the following reasons. When he suddenly disappeared, it made it easier for him to let go of his past and focus on what he wants to do in the future. McCandless could make all his own decisions, nobody had a chance to tell him that he could not leave and certainly did not allow anyone to find out where he was going. Finally he didn’t agree to social norms.

Although he refused to marry her at first he finally lied the knot with Lucynell. They drive to their honeymoon in the 1929 Ford car that he bad fixed around the farm. They stop at a dinner where Shiftlet abandons his new wife. He tells the waiter that she is merely a hitchhiker. When Shiftlet is about to leave the dinner, the waiter tells him to ‘’Drive Carefully’’ because

The themes are past lovers, it is also a kind of karma that hits Jed in the end. The poetic justice in this text appears, because the narrator is not striving for a life that she is aware, she will never have. Jed leaves her and his family behind, meanwhile she chooses to stay and fulfil the expectations of her. When she deletes his message, she completely removes him, this makes Jed feel the poetic justice.

“It was stolen along with a container of gas about an hour ago. I called the police and Alma left in her car. We don’t know where she is,” “Where could she have gone?” I questioned while my heart sped up even more. Not only was my grandmother a victim of theft, she was missing.

’Oh,’ said Mitty, handing the man the ignition key. The attendant vaulted into the car, backed it up with insolent skill, and put it where it belonged. ”(337) The attendant makes Walter feel incompetent because he can't park his own car. This leads to a feeling of powerlessness.

During one of Montag and Clarisse’s conversations she told him, “My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove 40 miles an hour and they jailed him for two days.” (9) In the book it's illegal to drive around slowly and admire or think about the world around you. When Montag was having a hard day the first thing that Millie told him to do was take the beetle. “ I always like to drive fast when I feel that way.

The Vow by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter is full of action. Throughout the book the author used enough imagery to convey and perceive the events perfectly, just as if the accident took place right in front of the reader’s eyes. Kim and Krickitt’s marriage was recent when one night they decided to head over to their in-laws house for the holidays when suddenly the white Ford Escort was involved in a collision with two trucks. Traveling at the speed limit, Krickitt came up behind a truck, which was hidden in a cloud of black smoke produced by a defective fuel filter. As the right fornt fender of the white Ford Escort clipped rear corner it began to spin and tumbled until it came to a complete stop.

Another example is about an 11 year old boy, named La’ Dorious Wylie. While him and his little sister were waiting for the bus, a car came speeding towards them. He pushed her out of the way. The car hit him, then drove away.

August Wilson’s play Fences focuses on a man named Troy Maxson, a garbage man who is married to Rose and with her, has a son named Cory. Troy has an affair with a woman named Alberta who becomes pregnant with his child. This causes lots of tension in the house, not only between Troy and Rose, but also between Troy and Cory. This is because Cory is furious at what Troy did to Rose as well as Troy ruining Cory’s chance to go to college. In the end of the play Troy dies and Cory refuses to go to his funeral until Rose gives him a speech about why he has to.

The Forgiving and Rebellious, Louie Zamperini Louie was a rebellious child who became one of America’s great fighters in World War 2. Louie was making bad choices as a child and his brother, Pete, picked him up and made him a great olympian runner. Louie was a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces. He was captured and tortured by the Japanese. In the novel, Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie was rebellious and forgiving because he was a rebel in the beginning of the novel and he forgave all of his captors.

I think it would have been more effective if it was told in the view of the narrator. If it was told in a different view, we wouldn’t know the narrator's thought or feelings. Also being told in first person lets the story be told as true as possible instead of having it be told of a speculator. LIke in the email by Sergeant Tina M.Beller, “The Smell Of Fresh Paint”, and the short story “International Reality Consultants,LTD.” by Amy VAughan. Being in the view of the narrator is more effective than being in another point of view.