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Here is an example of how to write a narrative essay.
1- Read the topic carefully and underline the keywords
2- Forget about the exam and try to relax and think in a natural way
3- Think about or imagine a story related to the topic. Take your time
4- Write every thing that comes to your mind. You do not need to orgonize your thoughts now
5- Once you have written the story, follow the professor's instructions on how to write the introduction, the body, and the conclusion of your essay
5- review your essay and take a bit more care with your spelling and grammar
Tell a story that illustrates an abstraction.
I was twenty-one and a student. I had to choose one of the five topics the professor had proposed to write a narrative essay. It was a boring day when I began doing this homework, a day when I remembered/withdrew into memories of my life, of my experiences. Never have I felt so nervous, so sad, so lonely, and so silly.
I was alone; I read the five topics then I left the room. I did not like them; they were so personal and so embarrassing questions. I wanted to avoid remembering the past not because it was bad or sad, but because I had no past, I had nothing to talk about and it was this the fact that I did not want to remember. On the other hand, I knew I had to write the essays to improve my English, so I took my pen, the sheet, and the most embarrassing moments of my life began.
I remembered the experiences that affected my life. But how the introvert and discreet person I was, and I am, could write and talk about something I have never talked about, said to myself. I felt depressed when I started the essay and I spent two hours thinking. I selected the easiest topic; it was about “a story that illustrates an abstraction”. I found it the first suitable step that might encourage me to talk about my life. I was so close about my past. The idea that my teacher and my colleagues would read my essay disturbed me. What would she say, I thought, certainly she would not find it entertaining. While I was writing, I was thinking of how it was too hard to remember that one never had friends and never wanted to be approachable. I never asked myself why I should be lonely; it was my life and no one could oblige me to change or talk about it. I was not happy when dealing with the essay; I thought how it would bore the readers silly and how they would find me a silly person; yes, I have always admitted that and accepted it.
I had a bleak way of life and I never expected others to understand me, I thought, but if it was the case why being sad. It was the life I chose, or may be I was obliged to accept it; then why I was afraid of talking about, I asked myself; because I never wanted the others know things about me, but what the problem was; everybody might have sad experiences in his life. “The show must go on”, I thought again, so I had to finish the essays and shut out this memory at once. I took the pen and I wrote about those abstract feelings of dismal and loneliness that pushed me remember how my life was empty and cold.
Although it was a difficult day since I spent five hours writing the essay, it helped me finishing the remaining topics more easily and quickly because I finally dared to talk and express myself.
1- Read the topic carefully and underline the keywords
2- Forget about the exam and try to relax and think in a natural way
3- Think about or imagine a story related to the topic. Take your time
4- Write every thing that comes to your mind. You do not need to orgonize your thoughts now
5- Once you have written the story, follow the professor's instructions on how to write the introduction, the body, and the conclusion of your essay
5- review your essay and take a bit more care with your spelling and grammar
Tell a story that illustrates an abstraction.
I was twenty-one and a student. I had to choose one of the five topics the professor had proposed to write a narrative essay. It was a boring day when I began doing this homework, a day when I remembered/withdrew into memories of my life, of my experiences. Never have I felt so nervous, so sad, so lonely, and so silly.
I was alone; I read the five topics then I left the room. I did not like them; they were so personal and so embarrassing questions. I wanted to avoid remembering the past not because it was bad or sad, but because I had no past, I had nothing to talk about and it was this the fact that I did not want to remember. On the other hand, I knew I had to write the essays to improve my English, so I took my pen, the sheet, and the most embarrassing moments of my life began.
I remembered the experiences that affected my life. But how the introvert and discreet person I was, and I am, could write and talk about something I have never talked about, said to myself. I felt depressed when I started the essay and I spent two hours thinking. I selected the easiest topic; it was about “a story that illustrates an abstraction”. I found it the first suitable step that might encourage me to talk about my life. I was so close about my past. The idea that my teacher and my colleagues would read my essay disturbed me. What would she say, I thought, certainly she would not find it entertaining. While I was writing, I was thinking of how it was too hard to remember that one never had friends and never wanted to be approachable. I never asked myself why I should be lonely; it was my life and no one could oblige me to change or talk about it. I was not happy when dealing with the essay; I thought how it would bore the readers silly and how they would find me a silly person; yes, I have always admitted that and accepted it.
I had a bleak way of life and I never expected others to understand me, I thought, but if it was the case why being sad. It was the life I chose, or may be I was obliged to accept it; then why I was afraid of talking about, I asked myself; because I never wanted the others know things about me, but what the problem was; everybody might have sad experiences in his life. “The show must go on”, I thought again, so I had to finish the essays and shut out this memory at once. I took the pen and I wrote about those abstract feelings of dismal and loneliness that pushed me remember how my life was empty and cold.
Although it was a difficult day since I spent five hours writing the essay, it helped me finishing the remaining topics more easily and quickly because I finally dared to talk and express myself.
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