narrative essay
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RhetoricalDecisions_Sample_Autum.docxRhetorical Decisions
Purpose: The Purpose of this essay is to shed light on how self love and understanding can break the generational pattern of how you perceive love.
Audience: My target audience can be a parent who notices the patterns in the way they parent vs how their parents parented them. It can also capture young adults who have made a conscious decision to exert love in a healthier way then their own parents have.
Occasion: The occasion is that understanding why your parents exert love the way they do can lead you to a path of forgiveness and healthier versions of love.
Pre-Writing
Event: How living with my 93-year-old grandmother for three months gave me a better understanding of the love that my own mother exerts and how that season of my life started my own self-love journey
Brainstorm: I will explain my experience living with my grandmother and how the love she exerts is very similar to how my mother chose to love me. I will connect that experience with how myself love journey started after I was able to better understand why my mother loved with such aggression.
Outline:
Paragraph 1: Summarizing my self love journey and the main events that stared it.
Paragraph 2: Describing the summer I took care of my grandmother and the events that mirrored my mother’s love.
Paragraph 3: Talking about the relationship that I have with my own mother and how I was able to accept the way that she loves without continuing the same pattern with my own child.
Paragraph 4: Explaining how myself love journey stemmed from the understanding I had with my mother’s relationship with her own mom.
Paragraph 5: Ending with how self-love is the best love.
