Personal Narrative Analysis

I used strategy two by selecting details that support my intentions and omitting details that didn’t. In the first descriptions I omit some of the details that seem more negative like the muddy ground, the steep rock tails and the annoyances from other people on the trail. I try to see my experience from a negative person’s perspective, not just a negative person but, possibly just a person that is unfamiliar with their surrounding and might be slightly fearful or apprehensive to new areas. I used these detail in the next description to convey it as a more negative experience. I used strategy three and use words that frame my subject the way I want by, using words in my first description like: beautiful, interesting, all-encompassing to give

the reader the impression that I am surrounded by beautiful things, in the next description I use words like: gray, strange, damp, dark, to convey a bleaker outlook.
I think the most important thing I have learned from this exercise is to see things from different points of view. I can see how important it is in writing to be aware of your audience and to look at your writing from different perspective. I tend to be a more positive person, I actually had to stop and think about what I could find that was negative on my outing, it takes work to try and think like someone else.