NARRATIVE ESSAY REFLECTION
For my narrative essay, I knew I wanted to explore the inner battle and thoughts that someone goes through after a standout moment happens. I felt as if this would be a good topic for this essay because it left a lot of space for concrete language.
In the assignment, it says a good narrative shows how an event alters/ reveals character and this is something that really guided me in my essay. As I said before I wanted to explore the internal battle through concrete language. This was hard because I didn’t know how to put these personal feelings into physical words. By sharing the internal questioning, I think it shows the confusion the character felt.
I learned more towards an anecdote when writing my essay. I was retelling a moment, but also providing the insight into the narrator’s feelings. In the first paragraph I was mainly trying to set the scene. I knew I wanted to jump between the two events at the lab and with my robotics team and thought the beautiful image of my surroundings would be a good way to start. This explained the narrator as an innocent person who was genuinely interested in learning and gave a small insight into how serious she takes science. This was important for me to add so that you can better understand the character later in the climax.
The climax scene was tracked with the concrete language about the heat rising in the narrator’s ears and when the climax was over it was stated that the blood in her ears cooled. The ending was a little difficult to write and then rewrite according to the professor’s comments. I didn’t know how to make something puzzling without making it vague. To me that sounded very contradictory, so I tried to edit it as best as I could by taking the word “ flaw” out. The word created confusion because it drew a lot of attention, which isn’t what I originally intended.
Overall this essay was very challenging for me, but that’s what made it more interesting. Exploring this internal topic was a unique way to take on a simpler narrative.
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