A Survivor's Story: A Narrative Fiction

It was late one day in June, and the sky was as blue and clear as sparkling wine. I sat back in my hammock reading the book Unbroken enjoying myself, and my uncle came up and asked me if I wanted to play poker with him, 5$ buy in. I jumped at the idea finished my page and went inside the house. Poker is a pretty big thing in my family and I’ve grown up playing and my uncle was one of the best, so spending time with him playing poker is always one of my favorite things to do. We proceed to set up the table, “Texas Holdem“ he says, Jacks to open”. Nothing weird, so we get the game going and the pots getting pretty big when all of the sudden he drops his cards. I stare the cards dead in the eye and see that i'm going to surpass him! He looks

Change is inevitable. Whether it be positive or negative, change is constantly happening. More than often change can take you from the known world and spit you into the unknown, where you return a changed person. While embarking on the journeys provoked by change, you are on a hero’s journeys. The hero’s journey was popularized by Joseph Campbell. When describing what prompts hero’s journeys, Joseph Campbell said,

I feel a sense of calmness wash over me. My thoughts are peaceful and positive. I am confident and capable. I sleep a deep, healing sleep. I wake in the morning refreshed and renewed.

Notes: Another survivor, Jill Leighton discloses information about her life trapped as a sex slave. Bruce, the charming stranger, prostituted Jill as his slave for three years. This personal narrative conveys explicit details of the ruthless abuse, as well as the horrid living conditions.

The remaining eighth hour and complete seventh hour, I spent contacting family members and telling them of my unfortunate news. My immediate family, my husband D, my mom, dad AC, brother Ambi, and my two sisters, Addi and Theve were the first to hear the news. They immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed over to the house. The conversation was sad and difficult for me because I did not want to tell them I was leaving them, but I had to.

The movie “Lone Survivor” is an excellent example of Joseph Campbell’s idea of the “monomyth”, or more widely known as the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey outlines the steps a hero will likely take on their path to become and develop as a hero. It has three main parts; The Departure, The Initiation, and The Return, with all of them consisting of smaller parts of the journey. “Lone Survivor”, the movie, follows these steps very closely, almost mirroring the Hero’s Journey as Campbell wrote it. It is a very good example of the Hero’s Journey.

Brian Boyle has an unbelievable survivorship story. He goes into great detail from the time he wakes up in the hospital to the time he crosses the finish line of his first full triathlon. He has inspired many people and has beaten all odds.

You were probably wondering where I went after that night I went missing. Well I was trying to get some sleep and I heard this gun go off three times. I wanted so see if someone was lost or hurt, I went quickly to the rail to balanced himself there,to get greater elevation. Then my pipe feel and I had to try to reach for it. Then when I did I feel off the yacht. I tried to cry out but I kept getting salt water in my mouth by the yacht. Then I remember where the shoots come from and started to swim there. Then I hear an animal start crying and I didn’t know kind of animal it was so, I just let it be. A little later I hear a gun shoot come from the same way.I also hear water crash against rocks and so I swam the opposite way. I won the hunting

Later on that day, I heard shouting and crying down the road a ways. I swung the door open and ran towards the commotion. My mind was running through the files of my brain thinking on what it could be. I finally thought of the worst situation

Maus A Survivor’s Tale, written by Art Spiegelman. Both graphic novels are about drastic changes upon Vladek Spiegelmans Family going through the Hitler’s Era. Vladek Spiegelman talks about how World War II affected his family being Polish. Artie Spiegelman is writing a book on how most polish families suffered the exact pain as Jewish people. The story begins in Czestochowa, Poland as Vladek Spiegelman and Anja Zylberberg got married.

A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Mary Jordan (Viking, 2015), chronicles the kidnapping of two women by the infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castrol with their abductions, captivity and dramatic escapes. The book is currently #352 on Amazon. The shocking story ends as these heroic women escape but in Masquerade the torture continues through even after Rani divorces the maniac who had kidnapped her children and turned them against her. Just as Memoir speaks to any person trying to make sense of horrendous acts, Masquerade show women that there can be hope to escape violence.

Since its initial distribution, The Wounded Storyteller by Arthur W. Frank, has utilized an exclusive place within the body of work on the disease. This book has reached an outsized and diverse audience or readers, including the sick, health professionals and scholars of literary theories of sickness. Both the collective portrait which was known as the “remission society” of those who experience some type of disease or disability and a compelling analysis of their stories within a larger framework of the narrative theory. This book presents sick people as wounded storytellers.

I am a survivor. My parents were told that I had cancer when I was only months old. The doctors believed that I would not be able to walk or talk after an operation to remove a tumor in the stem of my brain. I had to have therapy which meant seeing therapists every day to learn basic skills like crawling, eating and even communication. I started preschool like everyone else but I always felt different. I felt more comfortable with my doctors who helped me heal than the students in my class. They never seemed to accept me for being different than them. I struggled to hold a pencil or even to walk and play at recess but that didn’t stop me from trying to fit in. I saw the joy in people’s faces and did everything to make others happy. When middle

When an individual becomes a survivor they tend to have several questions surrounding their benefits. There are several different scenarios that can occur. Most recently, we had an individual that’s deceased spouse was on LTD. While on LTD the pensioner is eligible to receive 100% of the State Share, however, once he deceased the survivor’s benefits are then calculated based on years of service and date of hire. It was extremely important to reiterate this information to the survivor, so that they understand the significant difference in cost. In this case the survivor was not entitled to any of the State Share, since her spouse was hired in 2007 and only had worked 10 years, changing the cost of her insurance exponentially. However, had

While in Afghanistan fighting the terrorist group called Taliban, Marcus Luttrell and his other three Navy SEAL partners were disclosed by two goat keepers who skulked up the mountain of Sawtalo Sar. The goat keepers were released by the SEALs and warned the members of the Taliban that there are Americans on the mountain. The Taliban prepared for battle and found Marcus and his team. The battle lasted for about two hours and during that time all the SEALs except Marcus died, hence “The Lone Survivor”. While in Afghanistan, Marcus learns a lot about himself and faces many struggles. My three searches in this autobiography are when Marcus searches for an answer pertaining to the goat keepers lives. The second search is how Marcus searches to overcome his ego and ask for help. Lastly, the third search is Marcus searching for his own identity.