Personal Narrative: My Literary Journey

My story explains that although I want to be as successful as my parents, I don 't need to follow exactly in their footsteps. I intend to share this story with incoming freshman to encourage them to choose a major they are passionate about, not one forced upon them by outside influences. From reading my story, I hope the audience learns to not let other people’s actions influence their choices or aspirations in life. After I received very useful feedback from my first draft, I realized that that my biggest flaw in my paper was the holistic impression.

When reading a fiction, not only the plot, but also the narrator and the point of view are important to readers in order to understand the story. Stories can be told in a various angle of vision or in one perspective, depending on which person point of view. “A story is said to be from a character’s point of view, or a character is said to be a focal or focalizing character” (Norton, 174). Readers sometimes feel they are overhearing the narrator’s thoughts because they follow along the narrator’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. Both Sonny’s Blues and the Yellow paper use first person narration.

Bohannan goes on to share an experience in which elders encouraged her to explain the meaning behind the papers she was reading. This was a daunting task since storytelling is very important to the Tiv, but Bohannan does her best to stay composed and present the story of Hamlet in terms that the elders will understand. As Bohannan tells the story, she is interrupted at several points, often as a result of the elders telling her the true meaning behind the story, even though it is not the way the story is universally

In the essay, Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed, Susan Sontag emphasizes that reading can be used as motivation for writing. Granted she has talked to people that don't feel the same. That the act of reading and the writing must be separate, that it's best to do one or the other. Sontag believes this view is brought about by either fear of influencing one's unique voice or simply lack of time.

He explains this through a list of questions using asyndeton that allows the reader to think deeply into the reason a person reads. Patrick Suskind also explains that a person must approach literature with a clear and critical mind. He uses polysyndeton to get the readers attention while listing the important factors a person must keep in mind when effected by the “amnesia in litteris.” In conclusion, if a person were to approach literature with a non clear or critical mind, that person will remember what has been read in a biased fashion. If a person remembers the literature read in this way, this would not allow the person to have an original thought towards that piece of literature or any other piece of literature that relates to the read piece.

Expressive writing is a tool that people can utilize now and for the rest of their lives. It teaches people how to express themselves and understand how they can use their current situation to overcome future stressful situations. Ciotti explains that writing about a certain topic for a period of time allows people to “build off of older thoughts” and utilize life kong ideas that were previously written down. Cruder, when asked how writing about traumatic events motivates her says, “writing inspires me to not let upsetting life events control me.” Writing has the same effect on many others as well.

Ishiguro employs Kathy with a narrative style which has a realistic touch to allow the readers to realize her nature, She narrates the novel, So the events are based on her flashbacks and stream of consciousness. she spends time to think carefully about what she says, as if she speaks personally to the reader, she exclaims "I want to talk about such and such but first I 'll have to go back a bit to give you the background and explain why” (Ishiguro 138). according to Ishiguro, he employs Kathy as a mean to not give too much information to his readers in order to keep the element of suspense alive and at the same time foreshadowing an impending death. This style of narration also consists of constantly switching which contributes to Kathy 's disorganized chronological perception of time and its significance.

The elements of American Romanticism really focus on making the reader think deeper. What the author writes in the book could have deeper meanings. For instance when the author talks a lot about characters having depressing thoughts or issues with family members, that could mean the author has had past experience with hard times with family members, or struggled with depression. Overall the themes that American Romanticism brings are good to get a reader deep into thought and have deep insightful thoughts. The way the writers wrote their stories lets the reader know how the writer feels and knowledge on the authors personal

When you are writing a paper using synthesis, you are usually writing an argument or wanting the reader to focus on your opinion of an issue so your thesis is key to letting the reader know why you decided to synthesize information. Your thesis statement will help the reader develop a better understanding of what you are writing about. II. In-Text Citations 4) The MLA style of documentation requires that you are fair to the author you are borrowing information from.

Pompeii During the process of recording my thought process while reading this story did not help me understand what was going on, the reason or moral of the story. Although i wrote questions down as i read the story, they still were not answered. One thing i liked about the process while taking notes, was the fact that it made me wanna find the answer in the text by reading it over until i got close. I would only recommend this process of reading if reading and understanding does not come easy for you because it helps break things down in a way to make sense of what is going on.

Many of us may wonder, “Why we are reading primary texts rather than reading about these stories in a textbook or a journal?” A reader cannot get the whole story from just reading the story from a textbook or journal. In order to really get all of the details and first person perspective, it is nice to be able to read the primary texts. While reading primary texts we find many examples that show personal experience, give more details that are relevant to current events are explained, and explain how complex ideas can apply to different groups. When we read the primary texts, we can get the feel of personal experience and are able to read the story from the first person perspective.

It is more than just moving the eyes across the page it is a process that needs several strategies to be done before, during and after reading as Kathleen T. McWhorter suggests . she says that it is important to use these strategies in order to understand and remember what you are reading. Reading is not one step process that you follow from the beginning to the end. Instead, readers should plane their reading to move within the reading process and become good

In the article written by Hephzibah Anderson, Anderson states that Roald Dahl wrote macabre books for children to remind us that children’s lives are not always full of sunshine. First, she talks about how dark some of these stories tend to be and gives us some opinions about whether or not they help children. Then she gives us some background information on the author 's life, expressing how this may have caused him to write this way. Though many of the facts she showed influenced a negative idea of Roald Dahl, Anderson uses a quote, by Maria Nikolajeva, to show how these macabre stories can be “healthy” and “an important cognitive affective function”. In the end, Anderson shows us how children’s books can be both happy and sad while still

My artifact is about a book I read called Fahrenheit 451 and We had to pick a theme or character to talk about and analyze their changes throughout the book. What I learned through the essay is that you need to revise your work all the time to catch your mistake and you have to be patient to find these mistakes. The main idea in my essay was to show Montag change of talking about books throughout many event that captured Montag to change his feeling towards books. It shows that people can change throughout time when they have motivation and help with them. We were assigned this artifact because the way how the book progress and the message in the book stating that we are paying attention more to media then books.

My Writing Progression “It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning” This quote from Claude Bernard describes my writing development this year. At the beginning of this schoolyear, I thought that I was going to go into this year and be able to breeze through this class because I could write a good essay last year and analyze stories, but I was wrong. Lit Comp Honors has been a brand-new experience for me.