Personal Narrative Analysis

In our daily life, there are a bunch of distractions which influence our daily life. Distractions which may always affect people’s life, behaviors, and identities. If people do not know themselves well, they actually would undeveloped their language of identity. A language of identities means people need to know themselves well and when they are in a society they can make themselves united with others. Andrew Solomon, the author of the essay “Son,” talks about two kinds of identities which are vertical and horizontal. Vertical identities always pass down from the parents, but horizontal identities may acquire from peer group like being gay or deaf. Individuals who with horizontal identities which are much easier to know their language of identities.

Good morning/Afternoon, I’m Tarryn and today I’m going to talk to you about personal identity. Identity is what makes us who we are, everyone has a different identity. Without identity we wouldn’t be human because everyone needs one to exist. Our identity is changing as we progress through life and as we experience new and different things. The texts that I’ve looked at are “Frankenstein”, the graphic novel by Gris Grimly, published in 2013, is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s original text, about a scientist who creates a ‘monster’ who he’s ashamed of and leaves the ‘monster’ with no knowledge of anything about himself or the world. My second text is “Edward Scissorhands”, a film directed by Tim Burton and released in 1990, which is about a man created by a scientist who dies before he can entirely finish his creation and must live his life with scissors as hands. From these texts, I am going to be talking about how our journey through life changes our identity and how others can affect our identity.

Identity is something that some people have a really hard time with, deciding who you are or who you want to be seems like a simple task but for some the choice to choose who they want to be isn’t always their choice. James Paul Gee author of “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistic: Introduction” talks about identity and how people have different Discourses depending on what social situation a person is in. Gee created and described Discourse as “ ways of being in the world; they are forms of life which integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, body positions, and clothes”(Gee). Gee talks about how discourses are pretty much an “identity kit”, which means a person is able to take on different

As the prominent philosopher Steele puts it, “We don’t like to think that conditions tied to our social identities have much say in our lives, especially if we don’t want them to (p. 539).” In making this statement, Steel indicates that we do not like to analyze the social identities in our life which means that we go through day by day thinking about different things but not the conditions we are put into due to the variety in our body, age, and many more things. Although Steele’s claim that people do not like to think about the conditions of the social identities, Tan’s epiphany of her different type language usage made herself aware of her

Identity is not present from birth nor can be received like a gift wrapped in parchment and shiny ribbons. Each person has created their own peremptory identity, and each day their identity grows with little bits artfully pulled together. As a mother bird collects sticks and leaves for her nest, a person brings together new bits and pieces to be added to their identity. Indeed, identity is not tangible yet is exhibited by what that person wears, what music they listen to, or how they wear their hair. Although, race and social status contribute to a person's uniqueness; noticeably, identity is created through personal experiences and knowledge.

In present day societal beliefs, one rather let humanity shapes his or her identity by conforming into society’s decorum in order to be assimilated with others, while one rather shapes his or her own identity by displaying confidence and independence for who he or she is. The speaker in “Identity,” by Julio Noboa Polanco, deliberates between choosing an identity as an ugly weed over the identity as a flower, while the speaker in “Lone Dog,” by Irene Rutherford McLeod, utters about himself or herself as a dog. Both speakers in “Identity” and “Lone Dog” use figurative language and sound to express their identities as a sense of freedom, constituting their own identities of subjectivity rather than letting others shape their identities with no

Who am I? What is it that defines that personality? Anzaldua argues in her essay that the language is what defines one’s identity. Language is indeed an important component of culture, and culture is known to be a crucial definer of identity. People use language to connect to their identities and communicating their realities and values to themselves and to the world around them… In other words, language is important because people use it to express their thoughts and beliefs. “People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances” (Baldwin 109). Consequently, language does not necessarily define identity as much as identity defines language. People decide on

In today’s society, I feel that the amount of terms that we use to explain identity are so vast that

Making cautious decisions are very critical right now; I have no choice but to get to higher ground because there are six people left in the game including my teamate and I. We are pushing to a moutain when suddenly we hear gunshots coming from our southeast. I yell at my teammate tell him that there is two enemys to our north and one to our southeast. We come to an agreement that we are going to push the hill to our west to take the higher ground but the enemy is playing with perfect tactics to make sure that he pushes us with great force. I could tell that the person we were faceing was great at the game and played at a very high skill level. As I am running to the mountian to the west, my teammate decides he wants to face the person that

On a cloudy summer day in July, my mom, brother, his girlfriend, and I were hiking near the Appalachian trail in South Carolina, and at the first resting point on the mountain my mom and my brother’s girlfriend wanted to stop, their legs were noodles and were not convinced that they could to make it to the top, but my brother and I wanted to witness the view from the top of the mountain, to gazing upon the hills and windy roads we had traveled to get to the bottom of the mountain.

The last day of nine grade went over it with many memories in any place that I have been in my old school. In the front of the office building had a small phoenix tree but that time, it was full-grown into a big man tree. A phoenix usually would be bloom in August and disabled when the school was over as in June or summer time.

My parents, sister, and I walked into Olive Garden to meet up with my aunt Jo, for our late birthday dinner. We were late getting to the restaurant because my sister Hanna lost her phone after her dance competition. By the time we parked the car and walked the short distance into the restaurant, Jo had put her name on the list because it was really busy. I took a seat on the tan leather couch next to my aunt, all the waiters were dressed in black with green nametags. The food smelled really good throughout the restaurant, and made me even more hungry than I already was. A few minutes later a hostess came to get us and took us to a booth, with a parking lot view, with a chair at the end. Mom and Jo sat on one side, Hanna and I sat on the other side, and dad sat in the chair. There was a family with a few young children sitting behind us. We were by the bar, so I could see different wines, whiskeys, and vodkas. There were two TVs in there. One above the bar, and the other was hanging on the wall I was facing.

Identity or self-concept is dependent upon social interactions and experiences. However, identity is also very much dependent upon the agency of one’s self-representation. Ranging from the clothing an individual selects, to vocabulary, to behaviors while interacting, people exhibit a version of their personality they want to be perceived by. The impression one embodies eventually becomes their self-understanding. It is then by interactions among family, friend networks, coworkers or classmates people come to know who they are and who they are not (Billington, 58). Due to responses received by the experience and interpellation pertaining to the emitted self-representation validates one’s identity. However, identity is an unfixed discourse constantly evolving. Depending on context, a person may alter their self-concept. Around family a person may be more open and expressive, yet in a professional setting more reserved and meek. Often a forgotten identity-altering factor is age. As people grow older, their identities change according to social interactions and the experiences connoted with age. Interestingly, despite society’s shared commonality of the aging process, each maturing experience and progression of identity is individualized. Therefore, this ideology can be explained by the concept of life course.

What is probably the most defining period in my life happened when I was ten years old. Before that period, I was a happy, optimistic little homeschooled kid. I didn’t have a care in the world, I liked everyone and expressed my emotions openly. I had learned to read when I was younger and had taken responsibility for my own schooling. I was reading the textbooks my parents had given me and doing well at school. I had an inherent trust in people and believed almost anything I was told. My parents were perfect amazing people who knew everything, and nothing could destroy my family. Then everything changed.

I can describe my identity as a Venn diagram, with one circle representing who I think I am and the other representing who I actually am. Where the two circles overlap is my definite identity of today. In that space, I know I am imaginative, I like writing, I’m artistic, I’m confident in my skills, and I want to become a better person. Specific objects, people, and events, such as the Percy Jackson series, my fifth-grade teacher, my first sketchbook, Elementary All-County, and a three-day art camp, helped me discover and recognize these characteristics of myself.