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What makes a personal essay personal and what makes a short story a story? Though both are very compelling in different ways, they hold their own unique ways that makes them personal and a short story. In my two pieces, “Of Clay We Are Made,” by Isabel Allende, being a short story based on a true story and “The Man in the Water,” Roger Rosenblatt, being a personal essay also based on a true story. Sharing their similarities and having their own qualities that one another don’t have. These two pieces are of how the genres relate to the author’s purpose and identifying the theme of both pieces while comparing and contrasting them.

In both “Of Clay We Are Made,” and “ The Man in the World,” they both come with their genres of their true based …show more content…

The genre of this would follow through a personal essay that carries itself differently than any other like a short story. For Example, it quotes, “The disaster described in this essay occurred on Wednesday, January 13, 1982, in the late afternoon, Washington D.C., was blanketed in wet flurries when Air Florida flight 90 took off from National Airport (now Ronald Reagan) National Airport. Just after takeoff the plane hit the Fourteenth Street Bridge during rush hour, crushed five cars and tipped over a truck, and then crashed into the Potomac River. Seventy-eight people died, including four motorists. Of the seventy-nine people aboard the plane, only five survived-four passengers and one flight attendant. The probable cause of the crash was ice on the plane’s wing.” (Rosenblatt 272) Here is where it quotes that this story is an essay that is based on a true story. This information given is the background information of what the background was about and of what happened. I would say that overall, this personal essay relates to the author’s purpose following with the fact of a personal essay being a little more descriptive. A personal essay mainly focuses on the thoughts, beliefs, values, and why there is always a bit of action. Overall, this is why I would say that a personal essay has its unique qualities from what a short story

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