1. Life is full of choices, as both the speaker and the pool players demonstrate in Brooks' "We Real Cool." Write a narrative essay in which you tell the story of a good choice you made and its results in your life and the lives of others. Life is full of defining moments that can impact a life negatively or positively. The consequences to actions are never known in the beginning but always play out in the end. My life as well as everyone else’s can be summed up to a series of decisions, both good and bad, that effected our lives and the lives around us. My choices in particular have not had life changing or drastic results, however, there is one decision that has seemingly changed my view on the world for the better. During my freshman
We make important choices everyday that can affect our futures. Whether it is deciding what to eat for lunch or deciding what college to go to, these decisions can affect our lives in many ways. Choice is the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. By making a smart choice, your health and welfare can be much better but if you make a bad choice, you future can be different than what you intended it to be. Whether it is a mild choice or a major one, choices can affect the way your life unfolds in the future. In the book, The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, the main character Brady Parks is faced with a major dilemma. He has to make a decision to either turn in is friends for murder or to live
...her than what they are capable of. In Of Mice and Men, the main protagonist George makes a choice to stay with his friend Lennie, even though he says he would be better of without him. Through, his choices, he is described to be a compassionate, understanding, and mature person which makes him supremely different from the other ranch hands in the novel. Likewise, in the Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus calculates several decisions that reveal his wit, resourcefulness, pity, and courage, all of which define him as an epic hero. More over, each author in their own way, preferable focuses on the options the characters choose for themselves and how they are or became the basic building blocks of their humanity. Ultimately, your abilities can be fashioned and built up over the course of many years but, no life altering decision is ever made twice, and neither is each person.
Everyone can pant a pretty picture of how wonderful their life may be. In fact, doing so may come with a consequences. Reading these three short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell and a short biography by Malcolm X called “My First Conk”, set off many different emotions. I felt as these author’s wanted to me to feel in such way. I believe there is a life lesion in every life story someone has to share, no matter how small or big.
This poem surprisingly changed my mind on life; I started to realize life is about
“We Real Cool” poem proves you can give a lot of personality and insight to a group of characters in eight lines. With the lines “We real cool, We Left school (Lines 1-2)” it tells us that these kids left school to chase after their perception of cool. The poet reveals the fact that these boys are also uneducated, rebellious and arrogant. This poem will be the prime example of quality.
Imagery is a key tool authors use when writing a poem. When authors use imagery it helps the reader see what is going on in the poem. It gives the reader a mental picture that can change as the poem progresses. Imagery uses all of the senses: sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. In the poems “ The Bean Eaters,” We Real Cool,” and “miss rosie” imagery is used to touch the reader’s sense of sight.. The use of descriptive words and maybe even a picture with the poem is how imagery is defined. It is the most important thing about a poem, without imagery there wouldn't be definition or a mental picture.
In Gwendolyn Brooks' We Real Cool, a scene is depicted of seven young adults playing pool during the time of day during which people of their age would typically be in school. The narrative voice of the poem is of one of these pool players, stating their usual activities as opposed to attending school, such as “lurking late” or “thinning gin,” ending with a fatalistic note that he, as well as the other pool players, will “die soon.” The statement of “dying soon,” as it's written by Brooks, can be superficially interpreted as her overall distaste of these young adults' actions, when in fact, the poem addresses institutional racism and it's effect on these youth because of how “they thought they were not cherished by the society.” (HoCoPoLitSo)
The first essay assignment of the class was a simple five-page narrative essay about any moment in my life that left a large impact on me. This
Throughout the course of this semester learning about different ethical theories and principles, has given me multiple different outlooks that I would have never thought would be so impactful to my life. These different outlooks I’ve had, have made me feel differently towards everyday situations. For example, Ayn Rand had a theory of objectivism in which case a person’s own life and happiness is the ultimate goal/good. After learning this I believed it was totally wrong, and made me determine how I could be more selfless. Another experiment that sparked my interest was the Stanford Prison experiment, where students were designated different positions either a guard or prisoner. Looking at the tragedy that occurred throughout the experiment,
Everyone has had that one moment, or maybe a couple. The moment when their life changes forever, the moments when they know they will never be the same person they were yesterday. These moments are turning points that play a large role in a person’s identity.
God, I hate narrative essays. You have to write about your own personal experiences and expect to get a three-page paper out of it. I have no events in my life that would fit a three-page paper. The events in my life are either to foggy in my mind, are too insignificant in my mind to fit a three-page paper, or are too big and broad to be able to fit in an essay and would need a 500-page book to explain. I do far better at other kinds of essays than narratives, such as the persuasive paper. I look forward to those kinds of essays more than I look forward at all to doing any more narrative essays. In, the mean time, however, I am going to try to get James to get off the Internet. Maybe then I may have a better narrative topic. I hate narrative essays anyway.
Winston Churchill said, “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” While I have learned from my mistakes in the past, all the experiences that I have endured have made me into the person I am today. Even being a work-in-progress, I have a solid foundation, strong internal support and blueprints of the person I will become. And the day I become a complete multi-colored sculptor of experiences and hard work, I will have helped and inspired others to do the same.
“...For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.” (Ishiguro, 244)
An Event which changed my life, well when, I think back on my life there’s
I am taking a Lakeland Community College Credit Plus (CCP) class this semester. It is a college level English class. I was so proud that I was able to take such a class my sophomore year. My assignment was to write an essay about a personal narrative. My teacher allowed us to pick our own topic of choice. That, I thought, was going to be great. I have always felt writing about something or some personal experience is so much easier; than an assigned topic. The words