Narrative essay-the act of re-creating an incidence
When writing this type of essay, one might see it as telling a story. These essays are often unreliable, experiential, and personal which allows students to convey themselves in a kind of creative way and also using a touching approach. Below are some guidelines for writing a narrative essay:
- If the essay is to be written in form of a story, then it should include all the parts of a story else, it will not be a complete narrative essay. This means that you the writer must include the following: an introduction, a plot, the characters, the setting, a climax, and a very compelling ending or the conclusion
- The essay should have a purpose. By purpose, it means the writer should make a point i.e. think of this essay as the basis of your story. If there is no point to what you are narrating, then the essay is pointless
- The essay should be written from a clear point of view. Most important part of this kind of essay is writing from a clear point of view. It is not very common for narrative essays to be written from a standpoint of the writer. However, this is not the sole perspective to put in mind while writing. Creativity in narrative essays sometimes reveals itself in the form of authorial perspective
- The use of a clear and concise language throughout the essay. Unlike the descriptive essay, a narrative essay is effective when the language is carefully, particularly, and artfully selected. Use specific language to evoke specific emotions and senses in the person who reads your essay
- The use of the first person pronoun is allowed – do not abuse this guideline. The fact that first person pronouns are allowed does not mean it should be overused in your essay
- Be organized – as a writer, you must have a clear introduction which sets the tone for the essay
Planning and characteristics of narrative essay and its difference from reflection essay
Before anything at all, a writer must plan his narrative essay. Planning involves doing some of the following:
- Select an incident or choose a story worthy of writing about
- Then, try to find relevances in that incident
- Finally, dig up some details or some information which will make the incident real for readers
There are so many stories which can be told and also written as narrative essay everywhere. They might even be a story that happened in your neighborhood. Potential stories happen all the time. What makes potential stories actual stories is trying to put them into language, recounting them, orally or while writing. Good stories must be informative, entertaining, lively, and readily believable. They should relay something to the person who write them as well as to those reading them. When beginning, you might want to ask yourself the following:
- Have you ever had a long held belief or assumption destroyed? Can you trace the change to one event or a series of events
- Is there a particular experience that you noticed or realized that has had a profound influence on your life or on the society
- Is there a person who has in one way or the other influenced you or your country
- Is there a decision that you had to make or some challenges or some obstacles that you have faced
- Was there ever a moment in your life when you decided to change or to adopt a whole new outlook
- How would you characterize your attempt?
Narrative essays always describe a particular event or specific experiences that might have changed how you felt, thought, or acted. The form of any story is similar to a narrative story in that it describes how your character is feeling through the writer’s written actions. However, a good narrative will not only be an entertaining one but has a point to make as well as a purpose to convey. A good narrative involves the following:
- Engaging readers in the written story. It is much more interesting to actually re-create an event for the future readers than to simply tell or write about it
- Relates events in sequence. The establishment of specific scenes set at actual times and in actual places. Re-create an event by setting it in a specific time and space
- Include detailed observations of people (e.g. sights, sounds, smells, tactile feelings, and tastes), places, and events. Use actual or re-created dialogue, and give actual names of people and places
- Present important changes, contrasts, or conflicts and create tension
- Told from a point of view, usually the author’s point of view
- Makes a point, communicates the main idea or dominant impression
Your details, particular scenes, accounts of changes or conflicts, and relationship existing between past and present should point to a single main idea or prevailing response for your paper, in general
Narrative essay is totally different from reflection essay in terms of some features such as those listed below:
- Purpose – the purpose of a reflective essay is to explicitly analyze opinions. Storytelling can depict an experience, but the focus of a reflective essay will drift quickly to the cause of those experiences. For instance, the reflective essay might talk about the story of how you felt while inside the doctor’s office but quickly describe the reason you felt that way and how that feeling affected your behavior. On the other hand, narrative essays usually seek to unfold experiences or depict a personal opinion in a clear, logical as well as impactful way without explicit close analysis. As an example, a narrative essay would simply narrate or describe the journey to the doctor’s office and the way you felt throughout your visit
- Structure – the beginning of the essay typically shows an event or series of events, eventually going down to the main part of your critical analysis. The body of a paragraph breaks down different points of analysis, often by adding new content and examining it within the context of the written essay. Narrative essays typically have more flexible structures, yet still include strong beginning and concluding paragraphs. Body paragraphs in narrative essays can differ considerably and should flow like a novel instead of a research essay. If your narrative essay is depicting a story, it should contain story elements like a plot, characters, and settings, according to the Purdue online writing lab
- Content -reflective essays contain content that leads itself to critical analysis. Tell a story only if it is meaningful to you as a writer. For example, a story about your first job interview lets you analyze how and why you acted in a specific way. Narrative essays have some elements that help tell a story or establish a view. For instance, you might write about the furniture in a room to describe a scene, even if the furniture is not of great importance to the overall story
- Tone – in a reflective essay, the writer’s tone is typically objective and critical, though some leeway is necessary to help with story-telling elements: seeing the big red A in the essay resolved my nervousness by guaranteeing a high mark in the class. In this kind of essays, the writer’s tone can range from a 3rd-person objective report to a 1st-person perspective: our teacher placed the test turning its face down on the student’s table. I broke out in a moist sweat
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