Personal Narrative Essay : My Life Was Perfect?

by Amy Tan In the narrative essay, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, the author sets out the story between her mother, whose English is her second language, and Tan herself can speak native English very well. The essay covers the tonal shift of Amy Tan 's psychological change, from grudge to understanding. Although she begins the essay saying, " I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations

essayist. Her essays are full of stories and beautiful vocabularies. “Ozick brings to her writing of essays an intense concern with the verbal and narrative art of literary of nonfiction.” (561, Klaus) She believes that essay like other kinds of writing is a fiction; therefore, her writing contains lots of stories, and most of the stories are rooted in her own personal experience. Her writing is a combination of narrative language and good metaphors. The author uses metaphor commonly in her essays and another

agree with the author to be one with yourself, you must reflect on life. Also, reveal personal traits that you have and give a deepness on what type of person you are. Plus, with the self-curiosity about yourself will caused a huge impact on the personal essay. I think another way of making yourself a character is to tell about the dislikes in your life and how handle them in real life. But telling the proudest moment of your life can really bring out the character which is yourself, plus making the

English class feeling like I was the worst rhetor in existence consequently, I didn’t try. I wrote no more than one draft the night before and that was the extent of my effort. Throughout this class, however, I have learned that just like playing an instrument or riding a mountain bike down a hill, writing takes practice. As I began to write consistently and began to learn more about rhetoric and style I found that my writing greatly improved and that I was able to get my arguments across in a clear

Writing has never been my forte. Nevertheless, this is not to say that I could not write. Throughout the semester with the assigned reading assignments and the given practical writing exercises I have come to grasp a vague understanding, I had never been taught how to write essays correctly. I am the product of Clark County Educational system. I have always struggled through my last classes and hoped to get out of my struggles this semester. One the greatest challenges that I faced was the distinction that

In his essay "Do not Blame the Eater," David Zinczenko makes a point of warning consumers about the dangers of fast food, stating that it is not healthy for the body. Through his argument, he infers the reader that the consumer is not necessarily to blamed and so he begins by explaining how the food industry is actually blamed. David uses questions throughout the text, so with personal narrative, images and his tone, the author is able to effectively discuss against the manipulation of the food industry

Frederick Douglass wrote his extraordinary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, proving that he is a great writer indeed. But does his writing fit Vladimir Nabokov’s criteria for what makes a “good writer?” According to novelist Nabokov, there is a certain criteria a writer must pass to be considered good, as explained in his essay “Good Readers and Good Writers.” Conforming to Nabokov’s criteria, there are three points of view a writer writes in, a storyteller, teacher, and

core required a freshman writing class, I was irritated and dreaded the experience so much that I delayed taking the course to second semester. Very confident in my writing ability as my high school featured a grueling English department and having received high grades on my history and sociology essays in first semester classes, I presumed that I wouldn’t learn anything in FWS. Though I struggled with the drafting process, as my preferred method of essay writing involved writing the entire piece

high school, it was simple; You’d be told to write about a book you were reading in class or you’d be told to write about your summer trip to the Bahamas. Writing about your own experience or giving your opinion on a book is something that doesn’t take much thought, because you, for the most part, know what you want to say. Writing 101 along with other college classes, such as History, have shown me that there are so many different types of papers, such as research, argument, narrative, etc., and they

years back to my freshman year of high school. I’ve always been a struggling writer throughout my adolescent years and as high school approached, I knew I would have to write my fair share of papers. The only difference between writing in high school and college is now I actually care. Writing used to be a chore to me, something you did because your teacher told you to and you didn’t care how it turned out as long as it got done. When I arrived in my EN100 class I had no idea how much my perspective