A Reflective Narrative Piece Of Ben's Life

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Ben wrote a reflective narrative piece, on his experience, and, recovery accompanying with accidently shooting himself in the leg. His’ piece is structured in a first person perspective form; as he recalls his past experience to the listener. The main theme of his paper, is to recount one of his’ past experiences to the reader, warn the reader of what was the consequences of such a “poor idea”, and to show/tell the audience, how God showed His grace and mercy to him through the whole experience. Ben’s paper starts off with him recounting how he was in Nashville, Tennessee for his brother’s baseball tournament. After going out to eat with the whole team, Ben and his brother went to wait for their mother at her car. While inspecting his mother’s

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