Narrative Essay

In essays, authors often have discuss personal experiences that changed their lives. Some of these experiences were initially negative, yet they helped the author achieve something extraordinary in the end. Other experiences may have been positive. Others may have been humorous. Still others have enabled the authors to come to a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
Write a 500-600 word essay about an experience that was important to you. Ideally, it will be an experience that has changed your life or your view of the world in some way. Focus on a very brief part of this experience—ideally, a five-to-ten-minute part of it. When writing the essay, use vivid, specific, concrete details to describe this experience for the reader. Use details and dialogue (if appropriate) so your readers can see, hear, and feel what happened. Be sure to identify other people who were involved (if appropriate). Don’t moralize, but write in such a way that readers know how the experience affected you, either immediately or over time, or both. The audience for your paper will be your instructor and classmates: in other words, a general, college-level reading audience.