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Narrative Essay Brainstorm

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Name:London Parker

Date:March 23, 2022

Prompt →

Write a story about a person who moves to a new place. Include details about who or what your character misses most and about the surprises they find in the new place.

Who are your characters?

List at least 2 names and use 2 adjectives to describe each character.

Character 1: Elllie

  • Describe them: Quiet and nice

  • Character 2: Elliot
  • Describe them: Cautious and brave

Setting

  • Where is your main character originally from? Jacksonville Florida Briefly describe their hometown and how they felt about it? Jacksonville is a lot of fun and has a lot of beaches to enjoy. And most of all they miss their family.

2. Where is your character moving to? Pensacola, Florida. How do they feel about moving? They are moving because of Dad’s job and they have no family there and they don’t know anyone.

What point of view will you tell your story from? Choose one POV and change the font color to red.

First person point of view?

The main character is also the narrator.

Third person limited point of view?

The narrator is not a character in the story. The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of the main character.

Third person omniscient point of view.

The narrator is not a character in the story. The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.

  • Event 1: Prepare to move from Jacksonville Florida and move to Pensacola, Florida. The vent will involve bidding their friends by and parking their belongings.
  • Event 2:Loading the belongings to the truck and embark on the journey to their new residence. On arriving at the new residence, they will offload the properties and arrange them in the new house in Pensacola, Florida (Gee, 2019).
  • Event 3: To get oriented to the new environment by identifying and locating important social, and economic institutions and places they can get what they want. The event will also involve getting to know the new neighborhood (Gee, 2019).

Conflict

What is the problem in your narrative? What gets in the way of what the character(s) want?

  • The characters in the story are experiencing internal and external conflicts.
  • They are not willing to move to the new location but are forced by circumstances (Gee, 2019).
  • They are not sure of what will happen to them at the new residence and are resisting change.
  • They do not know if the environment in the new location is favorable like it was the case in the previous location (Gee, 2019).
  • They are not sure if they will be able to form friends that will be like those they had in their previous destination (Gee, 2019). . The only thing standing between what the characters want and what they do not want is their Dad’s job.

  • Event 1:Characters moving around the new residence trying to get or make new friends. They also move around the town as they get to know where they can enjoy themselves and spend their free time (Prince, 2013).

  • Event 2:The characters make up their minds to stay in the new location and they start sourcing for new schools and other new social institutions such as church, recreation places among other important areas in the new location that will make their stay in the new residence enjoyable (Prince, 2013).

Resolution

How does the conflict get resolved? How does your main character cope with their move to a new place?

  • Eventually, the conflict is reslved as the cahracters are pursueded by their father to move to the new location.
  • The characters also decide o move to the new locatio after brainstorming and realizing that moving is the only way to save their Da’s job.
  • The characters form new friendhip in the new neighborhood who helps them to cope with the residence dynamics.
  • They are orinted by new friends to get to know the area better so that they can leave a fear free life while enjoying their stay in the new environment.

References

  • Gee, J. P. (2019). A linguistic approach to narrative. Journal of narrative and life history, 1(1), 15-39.
  • Prince, G. (2013). A dictionary of narratology. U of Nebraska Press.