Nostalgia is the remembrance of the past with a lot of desire to return to the to a former time in one’s life. In the Six Records of a life Adrift, Shen Fu goes through an emotional account of his love for Chen Yu and his family relations. The remembrance is with a lot of passion especially his pastimes with friends and the way he used to travel in several places. His other nostalgia remembrance is the frustrations he experienced with work demonstrate the complexities of life relating to class, tradition, and conflicting family values. The greatest focus of the author is on his Chen Yu, who lacks beauty and complements it with embroidery and painting to bring out the beauty of nature. She is a true friend of Shen Fu, and he shares all his feelings and hobbies. He gives the details of his leisure time and all the childhood joys. In his sorrowful recounts, he portrays a life full of frustrations and can only remember the joys of his travel and the scenes he visited in his past life. Shen Fu expresses his past in lower gentry man in a patriarchal family and brings out the tradition values. He makes the reader experience his grief and sadness especially the way he describes Chen Yu’s final moments. In fact, She Fu gives a presentation of her passing as a very beautiful passage. The narrative is, therefore, a delightful and emotional one in which the author takes the reader through his past with a lot of passion bringing about the theme of nostalgia.

Assignment-Think about a time and place before you were born but no more than 500 years ago. Think about the way people lived and about their culture. Then through incorporating research and at least two rhetorical strategies, write an essay in which you answer the following question: 
If you could travel in time, when and where would you go? Why would you want to visit?
(Choose a specific location, like New York ,  and a specific time period, like 1950’s)

Expectations- The essay should consist of the following elements: an original title, an introduction that provides background information on the topic, a clear thesis, use of at least two rhetorical strategies, and the research component of the assignment. The research component should include the following items: 1. One song, poem, or novel, 2.one photo or image, and 3.one book or film. you may also use other resources but make sure to cite them. Must include works cited at the end of essay. 

Drop yourself into this time period and write your own personal narrative, and use rhetorical strategies like narrative,description, definition, or exemplification  to write an interesting and detailed paper of this time period, creating an authentic and vivid essay. Write 4-5 pages of double spaced text in Times new roman 12-point font.