Blog # 11: Narrative Essay comments

This first essay due for my English 101 class wasn’t entirely hard. I actually seemed to enjoy writing it because it was a narrative essay, meaning I was able to tell a story over a cherished hilarious family moment. I chose to write my narrative essay over an incident that took place during my senior year spring break, which almost ended in a huge disaster. My siblings and I thought it was would be fun to play with my brother’s sniper rifles in the front yard of our big, blue childhood home. We were having a jolly ‘ole time until the police and all of the squadrons decided to take a journey over to our house to see exactly what was going on. We were scared out of our minds; I would say we defiantly learned our lesson that sunny March day.
Of course, I had a really difficult time coming up with an introduction to my hilarious essay. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to start it off with the word “BOOM”, or a true fact about the dangers of shooting off a sniper rifle and not being trained in doing so. I thought to myself, I wanted this essay to be as graphic, detailed, and funny as possible, so I decided to go with the word “BOOM” and went on from there.
After my introduction was strong and steady, the climax of the story easily fell into place. I was able to relive that scary and hilarious day by memory jotting each and every point that happened. What I did to make it easier on me, I wrote down every main point that I wanted in my essay. It was really easy for me to write my essay in chronological order.
To make my essay as detailed as possible, I typed up my paper, and circled every very that I wanted to change just like my professor suggested we do. I then went to the Google website and typed in the verb that I wanted to change and typed synonym at the end in the search box. I was able to find several synonyms for the words I wanted to change to gain greater detail in my essay.
Just like the introduction, the conclusion was quite difficult for me. I knew the body of my story was strong, so I wanted to make sure my conclusion ended on a strong note as well. What helped me out in writing the conclusion, I re-read my entire essay up to the point where my conclusion needs to be. I studied my essay, and finally after about thirty minutes on contemplating what my conclusion needed to become of, it finally fell into place.
This essay was a great way to start the class. I think my writing skills will improve over time. I know this essay will be fun for my audience to read. I always laugh when I read it because it always takes me back to that day where the almost disaster took place.