Blog assignment number 5, we are slowly but surely coming up on the halfway point in the semester. I hope you have enjoyed my posts thus far! This week will be a little different than what I have been writing. The syllabus calls for us to watch and analyze three videos; Wizard of Oz: If I Only Had The Brain, Heart, Nerve, Wizard of Oz: Meeting the Wizard, Wizard of Oz: You've Always Had the Power. Once this was complete we were to take the aspects of the video and answer questions about our narrative project. To get an idea of what questions I’m answering or what I’m basing this post off of, I encourage you to visit my English Composition I class page, and view the blog assignment page. It will be under blog assignment 5.
Writing my narrative project has allowed me to take a deeper look into my life and certain things that have effected me personally. Putting my story onto paper has allowed me to take a deeper look into the story. First off it allows the reader to travel into my mind. It shows them how and what I was thinking at the time. It portrays what was going through my head at the time. However, it also allows them to peer into my mind now, and see how I view the sequence of events and what I’ve learned from them. It allows them to see how I’ve grown since the event. My narrative also gives an insight into my emotions both then and now. The story I chose involves a moment in my life of intense emotions. Reading the story will allow you to see my emotions during the time. You will get a sense of how I was feeling during the encounter, and I try my best to convey it in a way that makes you feel the way I was feeling. Once again however, it will also show you how I feel about the story now. It gives you insight into the emotions that I feel whenever I talk or think about the story. Throughout the narrative while you read, you will notice various conflicts. Some of which are just regular every day problems, and others are much more serious. The ones I want you to focus on will be the ones that are more serious, or high stakes. A good story is conveyed through emotion, and one of the best ways in my eyes to convey that is through a conflict. If I can make you feel like you are experiencing the conflict, then the story will become more meaningful because it will feel like you are there. That is a huge goal of mine for this narrative project. Writing my narrative has given me the opportunity to look at the story and my life in a new way. Having me look back to stories in my life I can see how I’ve reacted to certain events, and reflect on how I’ve handled them. This portion isn’t so much for the reader but more for me. By constantly reflecting on my past experiences I will become better equipped to handle conflicts in the future. I’ve learned from my past and I can use that to shape who I am now. Writing my narrative has made that much more apparent to me. With all of those taken into account, I believe that both life events and the stories we tell ourselves about those life events shape our sense of identity. I don’t think that one has more pull than the other. Your life events shape who you are. You need these past experiences to learn and to create yourself. Now, your past doesn’t make you who you are in itself. Just because of something that happened in the past doesn’t mean that is how you will be or the kind of person you will be. That is determined by how you reflect on the events. That is why both are necessary to determine your sense of identity. Your past doesn’t make your future, what you take away from the past and how you use it does, but in order to do that you need the past experiences. They go hand in hand.
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Sabatino
10/2/2019 08:30:21 am
I appreciate how your introduction provides context for this assignment and links to relevant outside sources. I also appreciate how the blog post is organized and clear paragraphs to help the reader digest the information. I wonder how the conversation about heart and mind might be developed with more specific examples of what you were thinking and what you were feeling. Does that make sense?
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