1. Describe what it felt like to hear someone else tell your story? Hearing my own story from someone else made me feel a sense of trust. I found it very fascinating how when sharing someone else’s story, including my story, the author puts their style and their interpretation on it. The way Itzel told it made me feel a sense of my story being valuable, and there was a trust and respect between us. The story have me a new perspective on the descriptions making me feel like I was reliving the past and the descriptions they used helped capture a very vivid image in my mind, and this experience was really cool. 2. Describe what it felt like to tell someone else’s story? The story helped me feel emphatic and it gave me a sense of walking …show more content…
This experience will help me better understand people because it will remind me no matter which person you meet, they have a collection of stories that defines who they are. Whether they are outgoing or shy, each person has a story to tell and it might change the way I approach people, and try to get to know them better on a individual level. By exchanging stories I might be able create new relationships since we are able to see what that person's experience was, and truly know them on a deeper level. It’s the trust and respect you have in them that can create friendships that are unbreakable. 7. Comment on two important and deliberate stylistic/structural choices you made in order to more deeply communicate the “truth” of your partner’s story. Be VERY specific and quote directly from the paper if possible. Then, for each choice, explain why you did what you did, and how it helps communicate “truth.” Every author has their own style of writing and this can help a story have personality and detail. In my paper I tried to use my own techniques to communicate the “truth”. One example of doing this is “Once I hit the top, the sand was hot and fell through my toes, with the soothing sunrays warming up my
Overall this genre of conversational narrative is useful to those who need to “reconstruct and make sense of actual and possible life experiences” (7). There are pieces to a story that may not come as clear to a person who has been through traumatic situations, and storytelling is used to help not only with getting the story straight, but for healing as well.
With the help of these rhetorical choices that the author made, helps the reader to understand why we enjoy telling stories and how it is connected to the cognitive effects of a narrative. For example, if your friend is complaining that how he overwhelmed and exhausted from studying for midterm. From your own experience, you know how it feels like. That is how you have empathy with him and you share your own story about your past experience and might be able to give suggestions that you have done in the past and that worked out for you, so you can help your friend in
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales from the view of a pilgrim journeying with many other travelers who all had tales to tell. I believe that the stories told by the characters in Chaucer's book gives us insight into the individual spinning the tale as well as Chaucer as the inventor of these characters and author of their stories. There are three main characters whose stories I will be using as examples: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Tale.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that
Every person's life is filled with personal stories, significant to them. Memoirists are able to take these stories and turn them into a piece of writing which holds an underlying connection all readers can identify with. They take the events of their life, sorrowful or joy filled, and portray it in a way that people they can see themselves in. Writers can craft a memoir where an experience that may seem insignificant to the reader can become a story with meaning that resonates with it’s audience now and for years to come. Memoirs are written to connect people, to write about a timeless, universal truth all people can relate to.
1. The story of a teen and his story and his experience of his travel from Honduran to Mexico to America. But on the way he lost his friends in horrible accidents on journey to Mexico so he had no choice but to keep on going. He had no food and water so he had to drink cow urine. How this story opened my eyes is that what this child had to go throw to get to America from so far away. It just tells me that when you say you are having a bad day think about the children that go so far just to come here and also lose people you love.
Personal narratives allow you to share your life with others and vicariously experience the things that happen around you. Your job as a writer is to put the reader in the midst of the action letting him or her live through an experience. Although a great deal of writing has a thesis, stories are different. A good story creates a dramatic effect, makes us laugh, gives us pleasurable fright, and/or gets us on the edge of our seats. A story has done its job if we can say, "Yes, that captures what living with my father feels like," or "Yes, that’s what being cut from the football team felt like."
My first contact experience was deaf coffee that was held on friday january 22nd at the lighthouse church in puyallup. I was here for about 3 hours from 6-9pm. For me this experience was really weird because i’ve never been in a room of complete silence with so many people communicating so much before. If i hadn’t even notice the doors being widely opened i probably would’ve walked right by the room to be honest. First look at the room and it was quite spectacular. People of all race, ethnic background and culture were all smiling and enjoying each other company. First thought that came to mind was “wow, this is special”. People all getting along in acceptance and connected under one cause, American sign language. The people here are somehow more accepting than the regular people you would find in the outside world. So the first face that i notice is this guy i saw at highline signing at the table with some other people in the student union at highline. I met him earlier this week, his name was aj. I started there, figured i had at least one connection to the deaf community at highline. Went up fingers shaking just managed to get out hi my name Averi. In response he signed i know you, Averi correct? The syntax from ASL to english is still hard for me too cognitively figure out but i figured with
It seems unbelievable my oldest is a few days off being a decade old. I know every parent wonders “where has the time gone?” a multitude of times during their children’s childhoods, but as I realize my son is over halfway to 'adulthood' it seems like the time has flown by.
Stories are necessary aspects in our everyday life. From helping us remember a loved one to preparing for an interview, stories are extremely beneficial. I hear stories everyday and they help me as I overcome the loss of my favorite uncle. He was a great man and is still present everyday because of the impact stories of his great legacy have. Without stories, I would be sad every day that he is no longer physically with me, but I always hear of the great things he did and it consoles and comforts me greatly.
The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self. This assignment has opened my eyes, despite my initial difficulty in writing it. When I was asked to write down my earliest memory of writing, at first I drew a blank. All of a sudden, it became very clear to me, probably because it had some childhood trauma associated with it.
What this experience has meant to me/done for me...why it was worth all the effort I put into it.
It was the middle of the night when my mother got a phone call. The car ride was silent, my father had a blank stare and my mother was silently crying. I had no idea where we were headed but I knew this empty feeling in my stomach would not go away. Walking through the long bright hallways, passing through an endless amount of doors, we had finally arrived. As we
Ever since I was little I’ve been what you would call a “high achieving” kid. I did well in school, I did well in sports and I did well in my community. I was always the first one to class, and the last one to leave the field. I was the kid that all my friends’ parents compared their children to. I was the kid with a room full of trophies and awards. In my mind, the worst possible thing I could do was disappoint the people around me. In elementary school I was involved in every club imaginable. I was in the band, I played in the orchestra, I sang solos for chorus, I was in the math club, I was president of student council, I played travel soccer, I was involved in every activity possible, and I excelled in all of them. This
I could "snooze" as my dad urged himself to go onward towards Arizona as he