Narrative

Paper instructions:
Your first essay should be a narrative essay of a minimum of 3 full pages (using MLA guidelines).

* Narrative – write about an experience in your life. Use first person to write the story. It can be about any experience, but choose carefully. Remember, this is not a autobiography, meaning I don’t want your life story. I want a specific story that happened in your life (funny, sad, memorable, etc.). Choose an experience where you did learn some kind of “life truth.” Many people write about the same themes: death, birth, travel, etc. So you want to make sure you avoid cliches.

the paper must break down the elements of your snap story in terms of what we have learned about narrative. How does your snap story illustrate these Qualities? How does it illustrate them in comparison with other mediums of narrative? You must also contextualize your story with at least one narrative we worked with in class. You must cite specific examples of this narrative to demonstrate the connections you make between it and your Snap story.
be sure to explain the connections you make through bringing these two different types of narrative together. Why did you choose this narrative for context? Does your snap story allow for fuller narrative expression? If so, in what ways? Why do you think this is the case? Finally, and most importantly, you will address the questions raised above:
Do digital technologies like Snapchat allow us to more fully express and understand experience? More specifically, do these technologies help us create narratives that deny the single story? Why and how do they do this? Why is this important? Be sure to cite Adichie if possible here. Be sure to begin with a guiding thesis that contextualizes your snap story with another narrative and narrative qualities overall, that addresses the specifics of your snap story, and that makes a claim about the larger significance of this move in terms of narrative method (answers the questions raised in the prompt)

I WILL SEND YOU THE SNAP STORY VIA TEXT