- in 200 words :
- Review Ch. II: STORY, PLOT, STRUCTURE, and identify all six plot points in Emilia Clark’s “A Battle For My Life.” 1) What is the narrator’s desire? 2) What is her conflict? 3) Identify the rising actions in the story. 4) Identify the crisis moment in the story. 5) Where is the falling action? 6) What is the resolution?
- Regarding David Sedaris’s “Let it Snow,” identify what you believe is the crisis moment of this story, and state why you reach this conclusion.
PROMPT:
Personal Narrative:
Write a short personal narrative: this is a form of writing in which the writer relates an event, incident, or experience from her or his own life, and in the first-person Point-of-View (POV), using the ‘I’ and ‘me’ pronouns, etc.. The events of a personal narrative are most often presented in chronological order, the order in which they actually occurred in time. The personal narrative incorporates vivid descriptive details as well as the thoughts, feelings, and reactions of the writer.
You are striving to present a narrative that is compelling, like a story. The personal narrative should end with a ‘point,’ some epiphany on the part of the narrator, some realization about life, or morality, etc., a coming of age moment, perhaps, and this makes the narrative more meaningful both to the writer and the reader.
This is like the ‘Short Memoir,’ as discussed in Ch. I of our textbook, Section B. 1. Short Memoir, and remember that, as the last sentence of that section states: The Short Memoir tells a true story about you, told by you—as the narrator—and reveals something about you, and what you learned from this event in your life; it discovers a connection between the writer and herself.
200 word count for each section
