Personal Narrative (Five Pages) Gustav Fretag’s plot pyramid: Moving from Exposition through Conflict.
Write a personal narrative of how you came upon awareness, an epiphany, and/ or discovered something very important about yourself: The Conflict may be internal or external. Pay attention to Gustav Fretag’s plot pyramid: Moving from Exposition through Conflict or Complication to rising action Climax, falling action to Denouement and Resolution. You may find Aristotle’s Poetics rewarding, especially The Three Unities. Click on File review the full tips and review the document ” The Examined Life is not Worth Living.” for motivation and possibly an exercise that will help you begin. Personal Narrative (At least Five Pages) The main purpose of a narrative essay is to make a point by telling your audience a story. Colorful details and interesting events that build up to a point of some kind make narratives enjoyable for readers and writers. Keep in Mind that your narrative should deal with an event or topic that will appeal to your audience. Narrative essays involves human conflict—internal or external—are entertaining to readers and listeners. Purpose and Audience Personal Narratives allow you to share your life with others, and they vicariously experience the things that happen around you. Your goal as a writer is to put your reader/ listener in the middle of the action letting them live through your experience. In a narrative, the dramatic effect which makes your readers laugh, scare (pleasurable fright), and gets them excited, takes the place of the thesis. When your reader or listener can feel what you felt—if it captures what living with a grandmother, losing a job or being cut from a football/basketball team feels like, the story has done its job.