Write an exemplary essay or a descriptive-narrative essay that integrates elements of description and narrative.
Identify one person, experience, or event and share in detail how this has influenced you and helped you become who you are today. Remember to include descriptive and narrative elements as well as dialogue. This narrative-description essay should consist, at a minimum, of the following paragraphs:
1. Introduction – introduces the beginning of the story you are telling and foreshadows with an implied thesis statement what it will be about.
2. Body Paragraph 1: Key Event 1 – narrate the first key event and describe why this was important and how it influenced you.
3. Body Paragraph 2: Key Event 2 – narrate the second key event and describe why this was important and how it influenced you.
4. Body Paragraph 3: Key Event 3 – narrate the third key event and describe why this was important and how it influenced you.
5. Body Paragraph 4: Key Event 4 – narrate the fourth key event and describe why this was important and how it influenced you.
6. Conclusion – summarize the impact of this person, event, or experience and tie up loose ends to provide closure for your reader.
NOTE: While it can be tempting to leave your reader with a moral, consider if that is necessary. Generally speaking, stories allow us to arrive at our own conclusions, and you want to consider doing so. Answer the following questions: Is the moral of my story clear? (If you answered ‘yes,’ then do you really need to add it?) If it is not clear, why is it important that I add the moral of the story, or is it okay for my readers to arrive at their own conclusion?
