Please write a 2-3 page essay that vividly describes and explicates how a significant event has affected your life in terms of identity or community. This essay is to capture a singular event (within less than 24 hour time period), that carried significance for you.
You are building on “showing” the reader the descriptive language to carry a clear narrative, (avoid telling, and instead SHOW us what happened). Draw on SMG chapter 2 to develop rising action, climax, falling action. Read samples from the chapter and think critically about a moment you want to share.
Consider the following when preparing your essay:
First and foremost, why is this event important to your understanding of yourself, others, and/or community?
Focus on providing careful and thoughtful description to your reader. Make the reader see the experience in the same way you do by selecting and relating important details within a clear narrative structure with appropriate and meaningful transitions.
Organize your essay in a way that is both understandable and interesting to another reader, and present a focused main point, not a trite cliché or pat “moral to the story.”
Give a close up view of your event and not a generalized impression
Communicate the significance of your event by directly telling the reader and showing with your evidence
