Description
Choose one topic from the list below, and write a 2-pages narrative essay about it
• Tell about the experience that profoundly affected your life
Make sure you format the essay correctly and staple it.
Here is some background information on writing narratives from a freshman composition textbook, septs for writers, by Philip eggers:
” How can you tell a meaningful and moving story? Many people wrote memoirs, and it is sometimes said that every human beings life were told well, readers would grasp that meaning and respond emotionally to it. The way you tell a story is what gives it meaning. The best novels and short stories are read and reread because they are especially rich in meaning. Make the story you tell so full of meaning and emotionally impact that reader will want to read it again. Your first draft may flow easily as you simply tell your story. But then you should read it a day or two later as if someone else wrote it. Which part need to be dramatized more? Which section moves to slowly? How can you experiment which the time sequence to create suspense, distance, uncertainty, a ‘twist’; or emphasis