Analyzing Cisneros 'Essay Only Daughter'
Narrative Essay Assignment
As you saw in the essays by Cisneros and Orwell, narration can be a useful strategy for making and supporting a claim. It’s also an avenue for reflecting on emotions and ideas that are often confusing and/or complex. For example, in “Only Daughter,” Cisneros uses narrative details to support her claim that her culture, gender and class have shaped her identity; she also uses her narrative to explore what her position in such a family has meant to her work.
With this in mind, you will write a minimum 600 word essay on one of the topics listed below. All essays should include a clearly identifiable thesis in the opening paragraph. The introduction should serve as a framework for the narrative which will follow. …show more content…
In “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell narrates a time when he had to make a difficult decision that went against his own convictions. The experience, as he explains it, taught him something about himself and about a much larger political force. Write an essay about a time when you had to do something that went against your beliefs. Why did you do it? What did you learn? 2. Write a narrative about a time when you were an outsider, isolated because of social, intellectual or ethnic differences. How did you resolve the problems your isolation created? 3. In “Only Daughter,” Cisneros traces the development of her identity as an adult, as a woman, and as a writer. Write a narrative essay tracing the development of your own identity. 4. In Shewer's "Ready, Willing, and Able", she works through her embarrassment at the remarks of the group of girls by considering multiple points-of-view to come to a new understanding of herself and Seymour's position in the community. Write a narrative about a time when, instead of following convention or listening to your peers, you followed the advice and example of an unusual mentor or guide. Try to recall any specific advice that he or she gave you, and include it in your narrative as
As you saw in the essays by Cisneros and Orwell, narration can be a useful strategy for making and supporting a claim. It’s also an avenue for reflecting on emotions and ideas that are often confusing and/or complex. For example, in “Only Daughter,” Cisneros uses narrative details to support her claim that her culture, gender and class have shaped her identity; she also uses her narrative to explore what her position in such a family has meant to her work.
With this in mind, you will write a minimum 600 word essay on one of the topics listed below. All essays should include a clearly identifiable thesis in the opening paragraph. The introduction should serve as a framework for the narrative which will follow. …show more content…
In “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell narrates a time when he had to make a difficult decision that went against his own convictions. The experience, as he explains it, taught him something about himself and about a much larger political force. Write an essay about a time when you had to do something that went against your beliefs. Why did you do it? What did you learn? 2. Write a narrative about a time when you were an outsider, isolated because of social, intellectual or ethnic differences. How did you resolve the problems your isolation created? 3. In “Only Daughter,” Cisneros traces the development of her identity as an adult, as a woman, and as a writer. Write a narrative essay tracing the development of your own identity. 4. In Shewer's "Ready, Willing, and Able", she works through her embarrassment at the remarks of the group of girls by considering multiple points-of-view to come to a new understanding of herself and Seymour's position in the community. Write a narrative about a time when, instead of following convention or listening to your peers, you followed the advice and example of an unusual mentor or guide. Try to recall any specific advice that he or she gave you, and include it in your narrative as