Personal Narrative

For your third writing project, you will write a personal narrative focused on an important event in your life. This narrative should not tell your whole life story; instead, try to think about an experience that was meaningful for you in some way. The moment/event you focus on can be big or small, life-altering or not; itàtotally up to you. The one requirement is that you must develop some sort of theme in your narrative–in other words, your story has to have a point.

How you choose to tell your story is completely up to you. You get to decide how much/what kind of information your readers will receive about this event and the people involved. Feel free to get creative with this and write in a style that feels comfortableour narrative should feel like you. Just remember that you are in charge of crafting this experience for your readers, so make sure to think about how your choices as the writer will affect your audience.

Reflection
Once you¥ written your narrative, you will also write a quick reflection discussing the story you decided to tell and the choices you made as the writer. Here are some questions to consider in your reflection:

• Why did you choose this particular event to write about? Why was it so important to you?
• How did you develop the elements of narrative in your story (plot, conflict, setting, characters, point of view, etc.)? Why did you choose to tell your story this way?
• Reflect a bit on the theme you developed in your story. What is the theme of this story? What meaning do you hope your readers will take away from it?