Narrative Essay Assignment O . 500 words! Choose a subject appropriate for a narrative essay, using one specific experience from your own life. • Your body paragraphs will take the reader through the story itself; your introduction and conclusion will situate the story. You will use first person in this essay if the story is about your life; you can use first or third if you are creating a story from your imagination. • Bring your description skills to your work! I look forward to seeing you richly describe the setting, characters, and actions. • Dialogue is acceptable but not necessary. I'd rather have you write the scenes and events without significant or lengthy dialogue. • Make sure that you follow the narrative arc and have the story grow from a central problem that provides the story's purpose and exigence. • Write your story in this document, and when you've finished it, please add the words "ready for marking" to the document title. Grading Overview (also: see our rubric) Sensory details do you paint a clear picture of your moment and scene for the reader? • Organization and development - do you use transitions that work to improve the flow of your paper? Does your paper have a chronology to order it? Focus and perspective – please do not refer to the act of writing the paper or the assignment itself. Dominant impression - what idea do you want your reader to come away with after reading your story? CHAPTER 8 Narration 148 Student Writing: Narration MyWritingLab Read the following narrative by a student writer. Annotations highlight narra- tive strategies and essay development. 1 Brief introduction leads into thesis 2 Narrative chronology begins here. Time transitions: 3 then, when, as soon as Pat Melia Saving a Life Nurses have to face many boring tasks on the job, such as counting out pills, changing bedpans, and answering patients' families' complaints. One exciting December morning, though, on my job as a nurse at State Hospital, I helped keep a patient alive. Flying down the corridor on the fifth floor, a student nurse sounded the alarm. Her face was white and her lips trembled as she shouted, “Miss Melia, hurry! My patient has stopped breathing!" I rushed to the ward with my heart pounding. I knew that fear and tension would not help me think straight, but I couldn't make myself relax. Principles of emergency action flashed before me like neon lights. Observe signs and symptoms. Note the time. Try to start the patient breathing again. Then I glanced up at the clock on the hospital wall: its large black hands said 10:47. When I reached the patient's bedside, I saw the beads of perspiration that hung on the student nurse's brow. Mrs. Carter lay mo- tionless on the bed, her white hair in braids and the odor of alcohol every- where. "We're running out of time!" I shouted as soon as I saw the patient. “Go get a doctor, any doctor! See if you can get an emergency cart! And keep your eye on the clock!" I tried with no success to feel Mrs. Carter's pulse. Her wrist was cold and her fingers blue. I started massaging her chest and shouted to another student nurse to give artificial respiration. Two minutes had passed since breathing stopped. My arms ached as I threw my whole weight against Mrs. Carter's breastbone. At last, behind me I heard the squeak of rubber shoes, and I turned to see Dr. Marino. He was a white blur. He moved me quickly aside and with firm hands, he compressed the patient's chest. Calling for an injection of adrenalin, Dr. Marino worked rapidly. The drug worked. And we didn't have to electro- shock her heart! Specific details: "white hair in braids," "the odor of alcohol" Effective use of direct quotations Sensory details 4 appeal to sight, sound, and touch. 5 dent Writing: Narration 149 6 Mrs. Carter's chest rose and fell on its own, and we around her bed- side smiled at our success. As the morning's tension slowly disappeared, I knew that few jobs could match a nurse's for excitement. FOR WRITING OR DISCUSSION MyWritingLab 1. Do the title and the first paragraph of the narrative reveal too much of the story? Why, or why not? 2. The writora. In the moment set the stage t patient A student nurse's stopol breathing suddenly thesis I always tried to be a good student . When I was 17 years old my college offrance test was failed So I did not a greaca have chance to go V college has very rupset on that moment. My father and me you have to stand uw by yourself there is can help you. So I began I began to think my life and I decided to study again. father think ८ solution results upset what Com do?
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