Personal Narrative Reflection
When I heard about the summary of the personal narrative assignment, I immediately knew what I was going to write about. Once Mat mentioned that we should include “somewhere where we felt heard,” I immediately knew what I wanted to write about. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard those words was my soccer team from senior year in high school. I did not find it hard at all to think of anything to write about this topic because I was very passionate about it in high school and I had a lot to say about it. I believe that this was the best possible thing for me to write about, not only because I was so passionate about it, but because I am able to recall almost every detail from that season so well as if it had just happened yesterday. My coach’s speech from the championship game is what I remember very vividly because it was so emotional for the team and it was even emotional to write about all of these months later. As soon as I sat down with my laptop, I started clacking away at my keyboard, typing everything that came to mind.
At first, I wrote my narrative sort of incorrect. Instead of being a full-on story, my narrative was more like an essay at certain parts and other parts of it just gave too much unnecessary information. When I had my conference with Mat, he told me what I did correctly and what I should fix in order to make it seem more like a narrative and less like an essay. After this conference, I knew exactly what to do to make my narrative how it should have been. After revising my narrative further, it now is truly a story told naturally in the first person through my perspective. I believe that the way I used imagery and described not only what was going on but who was doing what and appealed to the different senses, was done well.