Personal Narrative Analysis

Personal narratives are often viewed as an easy run, although they can actually end up quite challenging. They require a thought process of life experiences and lessons. You reflect on what the outcomes were from your educational experiences and you must find a way to apply them to your writing. This can be quite difficult if you are unwilling to open up to anything valuable that you have learned. There are three basic ideas I received from my learning experience of writing a personal narrative. One, that my writing must have some sort of sense of emotional impact on my audience, if they do not feel anything they will become uninterested. Secondly, it is important to refer to sensory emotions and perceptions, most people enjoy experiencing

It helps the situational understanding easier. Dialogue helps readers see what is actually being thought and said, instead of just narrating the entire story to one’s thoughts. It can give multiple views as to how the emotional state of the characters in the narrative are feeling. Changing the structures of sentences can keep the writing interesting as well. Such as complex or compound sentences. An example from my multimedia writing would be, “I waited in my car for my brother so we could go in together.” It involves a verb and a noun. Also, using more lively words can help scratch out the boredom. Instead of using the common word ‘think’, I could use the word ‘ponder’ to create an interest to the word. Let’s say I was describing a chair with the color green, maybe instead of using the word green, I would use the word emerald. The reader will think then of a different form of green in a more fashionable color, giving them more to think about. However, it can be taken too far if descriptive words are used too much. This is something I did not understand for a while. I thought imagery through descriptive words is important, which it is. Although, too much can distract the reader from the point of the narrative. Another example from my multimedia narrative was this sentence I wrote, “Stepping outside into the warm summer night I pulled out my device.” Now first of all, a word needs to go in

Whether it be grammatical errors, which can be a common mistake in any writing, structuring my paragraphs, giving description, and getting my ideas across in a well-mannered fashion that is fairly easy to understand. Personal narratives are without a doubt fun to write, although they may be challenging. These narratives are an opportunity to make it your own, yet still have to acquire the components of being able to interest yourself as well as the audience. I can have a grand time and still be serious about what I am working with. I hope I receive more opportunities throughout my English classes to write personal narratives because every time I get the chance to write a new one, my improvement steps up a little more. No, I have not perfected these techniques, but that is the point of improvement. Not only do I improve but I improve through learning new things about my writings such as how to make it better overall. In the end, this process makes a beautiful experience for the audience reading the art work I have composed from